We still need to fake some relief on the dark green brackets at the top of the posts, like I did on the bay window, but the paint needs to dry a little more before I do that...
There was some big community event geared at kids that took place on the common on Saturday. When these type of things happen, because we are right in downtown, our street becomes a parking lot, and we have a lot of extra traffic passing by. We had a lot of people saying they liked the color scheme (now that it looks like a color scheme and not just a pink house). Jim and I joked that we'll be starting a trend... only everyone else will have their houses done before we can even finish our porch...
Speaking of finishing,
I had visions of going all agro-renovator and getting the handrails put up this weekend too. THAT didn't quite happen, but we did get some parts cut out for two of the sections.
Here's Jim checking out how the subrail works. It took a couple tries to get a tight fit with the subrail between the posts. Not having any carpentry training, we kind of learn as we go - I'm sure there's plenty of tricks of the trade that we don't know...
And then I HAD to pull out the camera to take a shot of a baluster in place:
one day all 50+ of those things are going to see the light of day... one day... hopefully soon.
Then my little side project - the house number! I've been scouring the internet trying to find a cool house number to go on the porch. One fitting of the new improvements. I found a few sites that made cool metal ones in almost any font you can imagine. Those numbers were around 80 bucks. While maybe not a ton of money, I wasn't sure I wanted to spend that much for something that may or may not match the gold paint, and with some roof repairs/replacement pending (more on that another day), I didn't really want to spend the extra dollars anyway. So last night a lightbulb went off, and I decided to make one with the scroll saw and paint it with the same gold paint.
Here it is:
I do have to admit that the number broke in two at that thin spot on top. We had to glue it back together. Maybe it won't last through a New England winter - we'll find out - but, hey, the cost was essentially free, and that can't be beat.
4 comments:
Wow. The paint work on these beams looks really great. You pull the pink off that's for sure. So charming. And the weather seems so be playing along too here in New England too!
The beams looks amazing and I love the baluster. Can't wait until I can show my porch some love...for now, I'll just be loving yours.
Hooray little miss scroll saw!! V. impressive. Its all going to look so amazing when its done.
Well done with the house number, it really does look good. So maybe it could look a little worse for wear by next year but you could always replace it. Until then it it's just the job!
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