Farmhouse Screen Porch

I love screened porches! When I bought the Victorian Farmhouse, I knew it was my chance to add one. I looked at a lot of pictures of screen porches to see how they were made. I basically made a frame with a floor. Nothing is permanently attached to the house yet, I'm still in mockup stage.

I purchased the screen door and built the frame around it. I made it to sit on top of the porch, so I could slide it out, in case I changed my mind. I left the back open to the rear of the house for access. 

I started with a piece of craft wood for my floor and cut it to fit the porch. I used square wood dowels and a porch post to form the frame and ready-made porch railing at the bottom. I added unfinished wood flooring to the bottom of the screen porch in the inside. 

I recycled a real life window screen, I cut down to size and used screen it to cover the mini screen porch. (The screen is left unattached until I paint the porch.) I used porch posts, square dowels and thin unfinished wood picture frames for decorative trim on the rest of the lower porch. 

I also finally got a chance to use the porch swing I've had for years, I used mini hooks and screwed it into a beam. 

On the second story porch, I replaced the original railings with ones I ordered from Real Good Toys and newel posts. I cut and used the original kit posts and added large furniture buttons, finial caps and small squares to the tops and bottoms.

P.S. Can someone tell me why I can no longer make comments or replies to my blog or anyone else's under my google account??????

Or see the pins made from my blog in Stats???????