Planning the perfect porch
With a lot of our
packing done, this week will be committed to cleaning, mowing, and
helping our homestead put its best foot forward as we get in touch with
a realtor and prepare to sell. In the process, I'm also taking copious
notes on aspects of the homestead I want to replicate in our new
stomping grounds.
Porches are a biggy, and
after having three of them built I finally know exactly what I want.
Our front porch --- 12 feet wide by 24 feet long --- is a perfect size,
luxuriant and open with lots of space for curing vegetables, drying
seeds, and dining.
Unfortunately, we don't
use it as much as I'd like in the summer --- prime porch season ---
because the structure faces south. So the perfect porch on my opinion
would be just like this one...but on the north side of the house for
summer shade. As a bonus, the north face of our new place will face
into the woods and away from the road, making it a perfect fit for
private summer living.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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This is were people building a second system/project/house have the tendency to try and fix everything that is wrong with the first system/project/house.
Often with huge cost overruns and disappointment as a result. So choose the things you want to fix carefully.
My experience with housing is you have to live in it for a while to see what really needs fixing.