Bertha made quick work of removing the flower bed in front of the porch yesterday! This is stage one of changing the entire porch! There is method to our madness ;) We want just grass in front of the porch! The whole porch is coming down and being changed! I love having a front porch but really don't like the one we have - it's nasty concrete and done really cheaply and is cracked and finished nastily!
We plan to have lovely wooden steps coming down in the centre with handrails to match the railings going around the wrap around porch. The actual porch will be all wood (or that fake wood stuff that I can't think of the name for!!!! Thats going to drive me crazy all night now!!!!) and either side of the steps we just want grass with maybe a really big half barrel planter for annuals each summer. Maybe a miniature spruce in the centre for some winter colour and decor...... and growing over the porch we will have my Scarlet Honeysuckle - LOTS of it for the hummingbirds :) They adore it :)
Instead of the nasty concrete you can see that was behind all the grass and plants, we will have slate detailing stonework (don't know what you all call it) the stuff you have on the walls......and this will be on base of the pillars that are at the back of the house outside the walkout basement too.....
Maybe this post should have been on the reno blog instead.......Hhmmmmm maybe I'll move it later.....
