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Monday, July 25, 2011

Porch saga - complete!

We (well really the Mr.) finished painting the porch this weekend! You can read about our inital saga (what took us 21+ hours to do...) here. He made great progress last weekend while I was throwing a baby shower for one of my besties (read about the shower here).

I am so happy with how it turned out, and am so happy it's done :)  Here's the before:

And the finished product:
The Mr. replaced the front and side of the main beam with wood (was ugly aluminum soffit), sanded, primed, and painted it smooth. The colour is a gray with a touch of blue although in this light a lot of the blue comes through. As with most paints it changes depending on the time of day!





Aside from that big accomplishment, we had a great little weekend with an extremely productive Saturday morning, followed by some time at a friend's pool for the evening.  Sunday we had a nice big breakfast, put the finishing touches on the porch, and then went for a bike ride to see some friends and then popped by the Toronto Jazz festival in the beaches. It was a gorgeous day on Sunday (humidity is gone!) and we finished it off with a delicious meal of Maple-Dijon glazed grilled salmon, sauteed kale, corn on the cob and some bread. YUMM. Hope you all had a lovely and relaxing weekend.
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10 comments:

  1. TessJuly 25, 2011 at 6:46 PM

    Your porch turned out divine! I am sure you will have many memories and fun nights on it!

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  2. UnknownJuly 25, 2011 at 9:39 PM

    This turned out so great! I'm going with greys too and I can't wait to have it finished!

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  3. Carol-AnneJuly 25, 2011 at 9:59 PM

    Love the porch! What part of TO are you in?

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  4. AshleyJuly 25, 2011 at 10:12 PM

    The porch looks great! Definitely worth all of your hard work!

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  5. emilyJuly 25, 2011 at 11:41 PM

    It looks fabulous!!

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  6. AnonymousJuly 26, 2011 at 11:08 AM

    Looks great! Love the paint color on the wood...

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  7. rachel @ Just a Touch of GrayJuly 26, 2011 at 2:58 PM

    Your porch looks great! So much better!

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  8. The Vintique ObjectJuly 26, 2011 at 5:08 PM

    Lookin' good. I love the hanging baskets you added too. What a pretty place you have.
    Camille

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  9. AnonymousJuly 26, 2011 at 8:29 PM

    Looks lovely Heather!!! You must be so relieved to has this project "checked off"! Yay ;)

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  10. KerryAugust 2, 2011 at 4:02 PM

    Catching up on my google reader (haha) Glad you two got this finished! It looks fantastic!! Must feel like a huge weight has been lifted off your shoulders! :)

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