And Now.... About That Porch

 It has been three years since purchasing our home, and we have finished all of the major projects we had planned for it after first walking through the house deciding whether or not it was the house for us.

 Well, except for one major project, enclosing the screened in porch off the kitchen into either a three or four season room.

 It's a good sized porch, measuring 16 x 16, and we use it for sipping morning coffee, and evening dinners when weather permits and it is neither too hot or too cold.

It has views of the Shenandoah Mountain range when the leaves are off the trees in late autumn as well as in the winter and the early weeks of springtime before the leaves re-appear.  THAT of course means pollen in large quantities arrives on the porch and it's not my favorite pasttime.... to sit and sneeze on a pollen covered porch.

During the winter months the porch sits empty and light amounts of snow blow through the screens, as well as very cold air, so it's unusable that time of the year.

There are French doors from the kitchen dining area out onto the porch leading to the deck stairs below, so it's an easy exit for us as well as the pups down to the backyard. 

We had a sunporch company come and give us a quote on making this a completely enclosed sunroom with lots of windows, a few of which could be opened when there is no snow or pollen in the air and were stunned at the price they quoted us, so we are getting a second quote from the man who built our deck and back stairs, but we are stumped as to how many and what size windows we want on the western side where the late afternoon sun would stream inside and heat up the room.

I guess we just have not come to a firm decision as to how much use the room would get, whether or not we want to heat or cool it year round, whether it would get too hot in the summertime, AND definitely debating if we want to spend the money.

I would love to hear from a few people who have a sunroom on their house, about cost, too hot or cold, and how much they use the room. Was it worth the money spent?

deedah@ntelos.net

Odds And Ends Photos

Here are my odds and ends photos taken over the past week.

Enjoy!

A Home To Age In

 I slipped just inside our woods today to see what the back of the house looks like this late in the springtime.

 I rarely tiptoe out there because I am super skeeeered of snakes and lizards... you know, things that go bump not only in the night, but daytime as well.

 It was super pretty out there with wild things in bloom and it just doesn't get greener than springtime in southwestern Virginia.

 The view was exquisite and the back of our home is truly becoming what we had envisioned when we purchased it.

 It was bland, to say the least, but with much hard work and possibly more money than we had anticipated, it is blossoming into our perfect retirement home.

Larger than we thought we had wanted, and for certain, larger than what most retired people need,

BUT

he still speaks of making it perfect so we can sell it.

I told him.... "feet first, Buddy".

Which is what it will take to get me out of this house.

 But, even if we aren't around to sell it, we want it in pristine selling condition so that our children would not have a problem selling it.

Oh, the things you have to think about when you age.

Morbid, eh?

That Darn To Do List

 A springtime view of the rear of our home.
'To do's" still on the list include enclosing the screened porch up above into a three season room which will include glass windows.
Also to be done is to pave the driveway.
Both large expenses so no telling how long they will remain on the to do list.

 Thanks for stopping by today!