Porchouse Floors and Walls!

Hello there. In all of the excitement from this past weekend, I forgot to mention that RobSr. got all of the pine boards ready to lay as the floor in the Porchouse. He used a planer to make the boards nice and smooth.

 

Planer Station

This is the pile of new, smooth floorboards!

 

 

Obviously, I knew I wanted the pine floors, so I took to Pinterest to find some examples of how it will look. At first, I thought I wanted to white-wash the pine floor. While I still think it looks great, I am having second thoughts about that, mostly because I have decided to do the walls with pine boards as well and will definitely be painting them white. I'd like to know thoughts and opinions about this. Keep in mind that this space is very small, and we want to choose color options that will open it up.

 

White-washed pine floors:

 

SOURCE: Home & Harmony

 

SOURCE: Unknown

 

Natural or Stained Pine Board Floors:

 

 

This one is more of the natural look. If we were to lay the floor now, it would be similar to this:

SOURCE: Unknown

This example appears to have a stain on it. 

SOURCE: Active Rain

 

 

As for the walls, we had many options. The first was drywall, which we thought was way too labor intensive for our quaint space. The next option was wainscoting half way up and then drywall or pine. Still, too much work for such a small space.

 

I think we finally decided to go with pine boards everywhere. They were relatively inexpensive from our Amish friends at the local mill.

 

RobSr. was experimenting with different ways to cut the boards to add character to the walls. When they are installed, it won't look like the floor at all.

 

 

Can you see the edges?? Here are some examples of what it will look like:

SOURCE: Titus Built Blog

SOURCE: HGTV

 

I will obviously be interested in this for my house too someday. I think it looks so charming, not to mention cheaper and easier. The second picture is my favorite. I would love to do a girls room like that someday... too bad C thinks we won't have any girls. :(

 

 

In other news, the Greek built steps to my rock. The ramp was getting a little shaky the last few hunting seasons. My record on the rock is pretty good. I have gotten 2 of my 3 deer from this location. I took some pictures of the new steps. This is fancy hunting!

 

Obviously, I had to test them out and this is the view from the top.