Weekend work

These are not the pictures you’re looking for.  At least they’re not if you’re hoping to see what progress I’m making using my sort of a rotation - I still need to take those.

I had hoped to spend a goodly part of this past weekend stitching, but as it turned out, not so much.  You may remember (or not) that last August through the fall, Wonderful Husband and I were working on our porch, repairing the original, somewhat shoddy work and replacing screens with windows.  We had replaced the storm door and installed all the windows (14!) before the weather became too cold to continue.

Since I really don't expect you to remember our Harry Homeowner projects, here’s what the wall with the door (otherwise known as the south wall) looked like in September.

You can clearly see the window “fins” used to attach the windows to the porch structure – we knew we had to cover these with some sort of trim, but since we tend towards being seat-of-our-pants workers when we’re doing a new type of home repair/update, we had no plan for how that would come about.  Lovely?  Most definitely not.

I knew Wonderful Husband spent periodic blocks of time over the winter pondering how to make the trim look nice as well as coherent and uniform.  And now I’m thinking it was a good thing the weather got cold, since his winter pondering yielded an excellent solution. 

One huge … er, glaring reason all his pondering was necessary is that these are the first windows we ordered and installed.  The helpful people at Home Depot told us the job would be far easier if we ordered custom sized windows rather than doing lots and lots of (labor intensive) fussy trimming out of the window spaces to make them all match.  But that seat of the pants thing came back and bit us in the pants when we realized that regardless of width, we should have ordered all the windows at the same height.  (Which we did on the other two sides of the porch – at least we are capable of learning!)  The difference between the tops of these two windows is - ugh! - an extremely obvious half inch.

Uh oh.  That height discrepancy is definitely Not Pretty.  And could easily be a Big Problem.

Here’s the same spot as of Sunday afternoon.  Of course now that you know what to look for, you can still see the height difference, but scroll back up to take another look at the full picture of these two windows.  I'm delighted with Wonderful Husband's clever camouflage!

So, woohoo – let’s hear it for winter pondering!!

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