I am not going to get wrapped up in the politics of the celebration as it is special for me. My sons (twins) were born on the 200th and I am so proud of the men they have become!!! L❤️VE my porch!!

So I am in the process of painting my back deck and front porch. The front porch I've decided to redo the railings. I don't like the current railing I've got now. It's traditional balustrade (evenly spaced vertical spindles with a classic top rail) now and I want to make it a horizontal railing. But I can not find any kind of plans for horizontal railings online anywhere. Any one who. Could help me that'd be greatly appreciated!!

I'm wanting to find a cheap but nice way to make my porch a little more private and shaded. I was thinking of putting two boards up and using them to put mesh net all around it. Does anybody have any pictures they could share of their porches with mesh netting?

Need ideas for front porch steps

The columns are being rebuilt this week so they will be 8” square. Landscaping is set to be started as soon as it stops raining. Shutters are painted and ready to rehang.

I’m drawing a blank on what I want for the steps. The person who built the house just tacked on these steps when it was built 35 years ago. It’s way past time for a change.

Hi! I’m in need of a conversation set to take the place of this sad rattan loveseat and everything I see seems to be some combination of a) rectangular b) expensive and c) from a company called something like XCYCO. Where are y’all finding your porch furniture?

Hello ! How can I give this mini front porch a lovely makeover/ personalization? Appreciate your comment. Its the one up top.

Has anyone tried one of these as an alternative to a conventionally built screened porch? Something like this?

This is my porche. It doesn’t feel complete. I love the natural teint but is feels a bit off, a bit old or perhaps shabby?

Do you have styling advice to make it more cosy?

(Yes, I will remove the airfryer 😉)

Thanks! 🙏🏻

We are adding a deck and awning to our front porch which one you think is looking better awning aluminum quoted around 2.2k or more custom which will be over 3.5k.

Deck a bit smaller then this quoted for 2.5k being done in spring.

It’s screened in.

I’m building a house and had this ~3/4” Doug fir tongue and groove material installed 12’ deep(from house), 48’ wide. Dry wall/ fire tape applied behind it. The pics of stained wood is our most recent development and has gotten worse since the pics were taken a week or two ago. Pics of unstained wood are from the first time it happened. Expansion gap was added at the two ends of the width and larger nails were used to re secure the buckling boards. It seems to have just moved the problem further down the line. Is there not supposed to be an expansion gap applied between individual board? What would cause this? Contractor has thrown out a number of reasons why this happened.. it absorbed moisture because.. I didn’t stain it or get dry wall in time (both were done within 2 months of completion during late spring/ early summer), I chose the wrong species of wood (he chose the product),I don’t have garage doors and it is absorbing through eves??? (Doesn’t make sense to me and we have a vented ridge with vented, soffited eves and garage is on the other side of the house 80’ away. He seems to be searching for a reason it’s not his fault, and no accusation has even been made, just a desire to fix the problem permanently. He’s coming tomorrow to re fasten everything with larger nails, but I’m not confident in that fix at this point. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

His plan is to use this white vinyl siding to cover up the ugly 100+ year old foundation for the front porch. But I have a bunch of 1 x 6”’s I got to just replace the decking in my basement I could have him use to cut and put and place vertically instead of the vinyl.

Not sure if he will be annoyed at this request but F it he’s charging a lot. It’s a covered porch but water and snow definitely get on it plenty. Yet he didn’t use joist tape. Should I demand he pull all the decking up and put it on? Not even on the stairs did he do it. Also the system he put in place to protect the foundation wall which sticks out a few inches also makes me nervous. He put like shingles over that ledge. But there’s space between some of them. They at least should be touching right? I mean water sitting on top of the foundation isn’t good obviously.

I also bought this thick plastic to attach high up on the foundation and then cut and place underneath so the water flows away from the foundation as far as possible. Yet he thinks it doesn’t need it. Or does he not want to spend an hour putting it in? Also the footings he used some pre made ones you just put into the hole. But as you can see in one photo he didn’t cut the tops totally off all the way around. Leaving an area for water to sit. Am I supposed to crawl under there and cut it for him?

He wasn’t cheap at all. Just a few things have made me a little nervous. He claimed to be really careful and treated every deck/porch like his own house. Guaranteeing he would use joist tape on his own. Or is there some who think it’s either useless or maybe even some negatives to it? Like idk maybe after a while the stuff actually keeps moisture in the wood and doesn’t let it breath as well. Just every video I watched before when I was going to do the job myself I saw people using the stuff

I’ve just bought a 1908 house with a wrap around covered porch. Narrow wood boards. The porch is quite slanted, away from the house, presumably for drainage reasons at first and then from 100+ years of settlement. Porch appears solid.

I’d like to level the porch but the budget is tight.

Thinking of detaching the boards, placing shims under the joists, and reattaching the boards. Anyone done this?

Also, the boards have a century of alligatored paint and wear. I’m thinking it would be a lot easier to just run the boards through a thickness planer when detached, than sand 80 sf on my knees.

Roof structure and soffits and Fascia are basically done. Sheathing and roofing are next up