Well, we've finally gotten to the back of the house in the remodeling and are we excited. One of the major reasons we have been so excited about being allowed to remodel this ole house was the expectations of getting the Sun Porch Room completed.
As you may know, the Sun Porch was sometimes called a "Sleeping Porch" in olden days. The room is on the south and west corner of the house and that's where the primary winds come from. In the days before air conditioners people would line the walls with windows and open them up in the summer to enjoy the summer breezes and sleep in comfort.
As you may remember we had some pictures of the sun room with the windows being replaced. This was one of the first things we did when we got here because the old room was in such bad shape we were afraid that we'd loose the windows and the room. We had to remove all the windows on the west end of the house, rebuild the sash board and most of the windows and put them back in place.
Took all of us as you may remember, including Kay to help get them back in place and re-installed. We put off any more restoration of the room as we worked from the front of the house to the back taking care of the bath, kitchen and bedrooms as our initial priorities.
We used this room for our work area and store room for about 14 months until we could get the other rooms completed. This was Jane's painting room, my sawing and framing room and storage for everything we could get in there during the past winter.
For most of the time the room was not heated or cooled while we used it for the storage and work area.
We, we haven't finished the room totally yet, but, we've got it cooled, heated, the flooring down, the ceiling repaired and all of this is painted. We just finished installing our wall mounted TV and got some furniture moving in. Couldn't wait to "show it off". We'll do more and write about it later but we can finally see some progress and closure to the room.
The room is a bright green with all white wood work and floor is Oak laminate. This shows a few of the west windows and the door opening from the "mud room" and back door.
The couch-ottoman and chairs were given by Donna (thanks again) and the glass table came from the "River" property that Donald and Kay add for several years. This view is the southwest corner looking from the TV wall.
This view is coming in from the hall way and the front of the house. There are more doors in this house than Chin's in a Chinese phone book! But,,,,, we use every one of them, doors that is, not Chin's.
Once again, we have to say how blessed we are for the opportunity and the experience. Again, come see us and enjoy with us.
