For the past 3 1/2 years every time I pulled up to our house this is what I saw.
The sad news is that I consider this the pretty end of the house. I don’t take pictures of the other end with the ugly carport.
An aluminum carport jammed onto the end of the house, an undersized front porch with outdated iron posts, flesh colored bricks, and that ugly roof. While we have worked hard on the interior adding vinyl plank flooring, a mudroom, recessed lighting, updated bathroom, a Murphy bed, a wood wall, and updated kitchen on the interior, we spend a ton of time outside… looking at this exterior.
We have a beautiful 15 acre piece of property. It is our favorite thing about where we live. That and our awesome neighbors!
The ugly house started changing this week.
The carport got moved. No fear friends it isn’t in the front yard any longer but moving it is a story in itself. Mr. Math is all about saving a buck but moving something that wasn’t designed to move included yelling, problem solving, and calling in reinforcements.
Here are the plans:
We are adding an actual built on, with a concrete slab, carport. It is going to be the width of the house, have giant cedar beam posts, and electrical for lights.
Having a math teacher as a husband means that everything gets drawn out for the contractor. Apparently we will have a 672 square foot carport.
When I arrived after day one it was clear that we needed a sidewalk to connect the front porch to the carport. A quick call to the contractor meant they rushed to frame up a sidewalk before the cement truck arrived.
The front porch is going to double in size, it will be taller to fit the scale of the house and open at the end to allow for air flow.
I took pictures before the guys showed up this morning. Here is the progress. It amazes me that all of the construction work will be done in thee weeks. We won’t be done because we are going to be removing the vinyl siding, painting the brick, and we are taking on the back porch ourselves but it will look so much better and be more functional.
We are looking forward to having close to 1000 square feet of shaded and covered outdoor space for us to entertain, hang out, park vehicles
The work is progressing.
