Comments on: Moving Right Along http://1912bungalow.com/2004/09/moving-right-along/ Articles, reviews, tons of before & after photos, house restoration and interviews for the house obsessed. Get inspired! Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:05:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: heather http://1912bungalow.com/2004/09/moving-right-along/comment-page-1/#comment-421 heather Fri, 24 Sep 2004 19:46:18 +0000 http://1912bungalow.com/blog/2004/09/24/moving-right-along/#comment-421 This room started it's life as an open back porch. It was closed in, rather poorly, sometime in the late 1940's by our estimates from speaking with the former owner's daughter. When the porch was enclosed they also added a small 3' x 5' addition to the original porch. This addtion had a flat roof. The porch, although closed in, was rather primitive and put together out of recycled materials from other areas of the house and who knows where? This would have been shortly after WW II when building materials were scarce. A new roof was put on our house a year before we purchased it. It was improperly installed, leaked like a sieve and had to be replaced but that's another story. At this time they extended the original roof line to continue over the flat roofed addition. We could tell that the roof line wasn't original and before we tore into the walls we were hoping to find something cool like a pergola waiting for us at that end of the porch. Instead we discovered a crappy addition riddled with dry rot and termite damage. The porch is a long narrow space that has a half bath at one end and the other end, that was added on, will become our laundry room. The area in between those 2 rooms is large enough to hold 2 small chairs but not much else. We plan to put up insulation, drywall and refinish the space, so it really is more of an enclosed room. Although the space is too narrow to really function as a room. It will be more like a nice, long utility area. When we first saw the porch it was all open wall beams, asbestos siding, and some windows that were mosting being held in place with security bars. Someone had begun to convert the addition to a shower and had gotten as far as running the plumbing and putting up gray wall board. The back porch had more of the feel of a barn or an attached outhouse so I didn't think of it as a room. I guess that just stuck! How's that for a short answer?! More about our back porch than most people will ever want to know. :) BTW, David and I had the best laugh at the idea of our trash pile being emailed out as the standard for "plague of the neighborhood." So, funny! :) This room started it’s life as an open back porch. It was closed in, rather poorly, sometime in the late 1940′s by our estimates from speaking with the former owner’s daughter. When the porch was enclosed they also added a small 3′ x 5′ addition to the original porch. This addtion had a flat roof.

The porch, although closed in, was rather primitive and put together out of recycled materials from other areas of the house and who knows where? This would have been shortly after WW II when building materials were scarce.

A new roof was put on our house a year before we purchased it. It was improperly installed, leaked like a sieve and had to be replaced but that’s another story. At this time they extended the original roof line to continue over the flat roofed addition.

We could tell that the roof line wasn’t original and before we tore into the walls we were hoping to find something cool like a pergola waiting for us at that end of the porch. Instead we discovered a crappy addition riddled with dry rot and termite damage.

The porch is a long narrow space that has a half bath at one end and the other end, that was added on, will become our laundry room. The area in between those 2 rooms is large enough to hold 2 small chairs but not much else.

We plan to put up insulation, drywall and refinish the space, so it really is more of an enclosed room. Although the space is too narrow to really function as a room. It will be more like a nice, long utility area.

When we first saw the porch it was all open wall beams, asbestos siding, and some windows that were mosting being held in place with security bars. Someone had begun to convert the addition to a shower and had gotten as far as running the plumbing and putting up gray wall board. The back porch had more of the feel of a barn or an attached outhouse so I didn’t think of it as a room. I guess that just stuck!

How’s that for a short answer?! More about our back porch than most people will ever want to know. :)

BTW, David and I had the best laugh at the idea of our trash pile being emailed out as the standard for “plague of the neighborhood.” So, funny! :)

]]> By: Nathan http://1912bungalow.com/2004/09/moving-right-along/comment-page-1/#comment-420 Nathan Fri, 24 Sep 2004 18:54:04 +0000 http://1912bungalow.com/blog/2004/09/24/moving-right-along/#comment-420 The back looks great! A question, though~ It looks more like an enclosed room to me than a porch. Am I missing something? Are you insulating it or will it stay outside the environmental envelope? BTW, I sent pics of your trash pile to my mother, GF, and some neighbors to prove that I'm not just a plague on the neighborhood: "H&D had an even bigger pile, but look at the ultimate results! I'm NOT crazy!" My girl now knows who I'm talking about when I refer to Heather & David, so I guess I'm officially a fan. The back looks great!
A question, though~ It looks more like an enclosed room to me than a porch. Am I missing something? Are you insulating it or will it stay outside the environmental envelope?

BTW, I sent pics of your trash pile to my mother, GF, and some neighbors to prove that I’m not just a plague on the neighborhood: “H&D had an even bigger pile, but look at the ultimate results! I’m NOT crazy!”
My girl now knows who I’m talking about when I refer to Heather & David, so I guess I’m officially a fan.

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