Yesterday, I obtained all the mortar finished between the stones on the entrance porch. Now I simply have to present it 16 hours to fully treatment. So by 1:00pm immediately, I’ll be able to prime and paint the skirting, and it’ll be finished! I can’t wait to point out you the completed skirting tomorrow.
However within the meantime, I’ve been doing lots of occupied with our sunroom. As you understand, I can’t stand this sunroom. It’s a whole eyesore on the again of our home. The plan has at all times been to tear the sunroom down and add a brand new addition to the again of our home. However over the previous few years, that plan has appeared to develop into extra like a dream than a agency plan. First, there was COVID and interrupted provide strains that precipitated costs to spike (a few of them doubling, tripling, and quadrupling throughout that point). And now with an unsure financial system, the thought of doing such an enormous mission and placing that a lot cash into an addition actually scares me.
So if you happen to’ve been following alongside, you understand that my newest plan has been to stay with the sunroom, although I actually do hate it, and do a low finances makeover as a short lived repair in hopes that we are able to nonetheless do the addition sooner or later sooner or later. I had hoped to get away with tearing out the outdated finishes (disgusting carpet, asphalt siding, outdated paneling, drop ceiling tiles, and so forth.) and giving every little thing a coat or two of paint, after which utilizing half of the room as our house fitness center and the opposite half as a sitting room with a TV for Matt in order that I can have my breakfast room again as a correct eating space with a desk and chairs.
However two issues have me rethinking my tremendous low cost makeover plan. The primary situation is that this again door. That is the unique sliding door that was right here after we purchased the home.
Not solely is it ugly, nevertheless it doesn’t even shut all the best way. When it’s “closed”, there’s nonetheless a sliver of house between the door and the body. I’ve finished every little thing I can to make it shut correctly, however it doesn’t matter what I do, nothing appears to assist. Plus, opening the door is almost unattainable. I’ve to place my full weight and power in opposition to the sting of the door to even get it to open all the best way. So only for sensible and security functions, this door must be changed if that is going to be a room that we’re truly going to be spending time in. And since I wish to get the again patio all cleaned up and looking out cute and usable, clearly, this door must be usable additionally. And if I’m going to go to the difficulty of constructing the patio cute, I don’t need the view mucked up with an unpleasant again door.
I’d like to exchange that sliding glass door with the identical doorways that I’ve on the again entry of my studio since they’re each in full view from the again of our home.
So changing the door isn’t only a “need”. I believe it’s an absolute “should do” for sensible and security functions. However then that leaves me with the ugly home windows within the sunroom. Since I’ve been spending lots of time working within the carport over the previous few weeks whereas getting ready the stones for the entrance porch skirting, I’ve had lots of time to have a look at these ugly home windows and the entire bottom of the sunroom. I actually can’t stand the truth that we’ve got good, new home windows and door on a part of the again of our home, after which this big eyesore of the sunroom with these outdated aluminum home windows.
At first, I assumed that there was no approach I needed to even contemplate changing these home windows in a sunroom that I actually wish to tear down. Changing the home windows simply makes it really feel much more everlasting and like I ought to simply quit on my dream of a brand new addition altogether.
Please excuse the uncared for jungle look of our again patio. 😀 I’ve had zero motivation (and nil time) to get this space cleaned up as a result of…why would I prioritize this? Even when it’s cleaned up, it’s going to look ugly. However as you may see, this room has so many giant home windows, in order that’s one more reason I hadn’t even thought-about changing them.
However yesterday, as I used to be working within the carport once more and looking at this mess, dreaming in regards to the prospects, I had an epiphany. Shopping for new home windows to exchange these outdated, single-pane, drafty home windows doesn’t imply that I’ve to surrender on my dream of an addition. I simply merely have to be sure that I order home windows that may be reused if and after we ever get to construct our addition. So long as the brand new home windows are correctly sized for that addition, they’ll merely be eliminated after we’re able to tear this sunroom down after which be re-installed within the addition.
I believe this could be the very best resolution. It’s undoubtedly extra work than what I had deliberate to place into the sunroom makeover later this 12 months, however I believe it’s the neatest resolution. If we preserve these outdated aluminum home windows for now, we’re actually not going to wish to spend any time within the sunroom. The home windows are outdated and drafty, so the room will get actually scorching in the summertime and actually chilly within the winter. New home windows will assist with that. After which we’ll have already got them available for after we’re able to construct the addition. And within the occasion that the addition by no means will get constructed, and if that’s a dream I actually have to let go of, we’ll not less than have a usable room with correct home windows.
In order that’s what I’m planning for now. My tremendous low cost and easy sunroom makeover retains getting far more concerned than I had initially deliberate. However I believe that is the best way ahead. Whereas I actually don’t need this room to be a everlasting fixture on our home, it does must be livable and comfy whereas we’ve got it and whereas we’re utilizing it. However I can obtain that whereas not fully giving up on that dream of ultimately tearing it down and rebuilding. And so long as I’m changing doorways and home windows with ones that can be utilized in a future addition, that cash gained’t be wasted.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and enhance the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You’ll be able to study extra about me right here.
