Sleeping Porch Project

 

I really suck at taking "before" pictures of my various projects....maybe if I did a better job, it might occur to me just how much work I've done on this house over the last 4 years.

 

In any case, here's the only pic I could find of what the old windows on our 2nd floor sleeping porch looked like:

 

 

The paint was peeling badly off of them, the windows themselves were falling apart, and there were only three ratty aluminum triple track windows (one you can just see in the top right corner) that opened. Back in 2001, my father-in-law and I attempted to repair the windows, but found them beyond repair. So, I decided to build new ones, and put up some plastic sheeting over the windows temporarily to keep the bugs out (the gaps in the windows were THAT big).

 It took me 3 years of working on them on-and-off to finish them. Don't ask.

 In any case, here's what the porch looks like now with the new windows and a fresh coat of paint on the inside:

The windows and frames are all made of of cypress and are traditional single-pane inward swinging casements. All 20 windows open, but only the ones on the ends of the porch have screens. Screens for the other 12 will happen sooner or later. My son has already moved his Krusty Krab tent out there, although I admit that he doesn't play out there much....yet (the porch is off of his bedroom). Still, an uninhabitable area of our house has been returned to its somewhat former glory.