Paint perfect

The painter is done, and has picked up his check. He said that he doesn't have any work lined up for the winter, but the payment from our job should make sure that he's okay until spring.

Here is the view from the actual porch





And backing up-- doesn't Aaron's carpentry on the trim work for the front porch look absolutely beautiful? You'd never know it wasn't original.





And backing up again-- he ended up having to replace all of the trim above the front middle window in the bay on the 2nd floor due to old rot from ice dams. Then, the new 1x6 tongue and groove stuck out, so I asked the painter to caulk the grooves to make them look like they had 90 years of paint. I think that he did a great job, even though Aaron and I had a silent trip to work from arguing about this.





And, finally a view from across the street. Mike thought that we'd replaced everything with plastic b/c it was so shiny.





We have two minor details left to take care of-
1. Aaron replaced the light next to the door, but he hasn't done the one on the porch ceiling yet. When he gets that done, I'll post pictures. The one he's replaced looks great, though!

2. We still have to replace the lattice under the right side of the porch. We have all of the stuff, it's just a matter of actually getting it done.

So, I'd say that we're 95% of the way done! Yay! It feels so great to have the bulk of this project behind us. Now, if I could just find a mailbox...

We do plan to have Tom come back next spring and paint the roof over the porch and the concrete porch floor, but we need to save up some money first!