Well, the exterior trim and porch materials are ready and it's time to get started building a porch! We had very limited information on exactly how to do this, so we mostly just made it up as we went along. For porch posts we decided to use our 4x4s, but we wanted them to be a little bit fancy, so we cut a bevel out of each corner to give the 4x4s chamfered edges.
While Sam was doing this, I worked on creating a 3-sided box that would, in conjunction with the forward wall of our house, define the edges of our porch space.
We used scrap from our 4x4s as nailers to help attach the porch to the forward wall of the house. Sam screwed them into the wall while I attached the box to our newly chamfered posts.
And then we just lifted the box-and-posts up and into place, screwed it to the nailers on the house, and we had the skeleton of our porch in place.
Not bad for a days work.
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