FRONT PORCH PARTY

Hello and welcome to my porch party being hosted by Rhondi of Rose Colored Glasses. If you click here you can go to her blog and get all the links who are participating. When I heard about Rhondi’s Front Porch Party. I was so excited about it. I have always loved porches and I’m so happy to finally have a house with a porch. Our first two houses only had small little porches not even big enough for a chair. When my husband and I started looking for our retirement home that was one thing it had to have. First on my list! This house has two so the one in the older part of the house we are going to turn it into a four seasons sun room. Perfect because it is south facing so we will be able to grow lettuce, tomatoes and beautiful flowers all year round. Well I just couldn’t wait to get started on taking photos for this fun post! I thought since our porch railings and my shabby white furniture was due a coat of paint this summer I would go ahead and do that before taking pics. Well just about the time I got all my materials ready to paint the sky’s opened up with rain, hail and wind, and it has been doing that for three days. We have had awful floods in WV from this and I pray for the people who lost so much! I thought I would wait until this morning to take pics when hopefully the sun would be shinning. I was up and out on my porch bright and early today and the sun was out but I never thought I would find the mess I did. It had rained so hard the porch flooded with water and mud. What a job to get that cleaned up before taking pics. Needless to say, no freshly painted furniture and railings and the floors are a little messy, cleaned up best as I could. But my pretty porch is still there and Oh how I love it! Take a look, please click on the pics so you can take a closer look!

Some close ups for my little table scapes!

We spend so much time on our porch, it's quite large so we have picnic's out here also. Sit and relax at every chance we get!

Most of the hand painted items on my porch were done by my daughter Jen from Jennifers Petal Palace.

A view from our porch.

Wisteria at one end of the porch. Really makes a cozy place to sit. When in bloom it's just beautiful with a heavenly scent.

Roses are just now starting to bloom.

A few pics of other season with our porch. This is a view from my porch during a cold snowy winter in the hills of West Virginia.

My picket fence was another must have for me, it took quite a few years to get hubby to put that in. Coming from a farming family he loves wide open spaces. He did not want any parts of a fence but now loves it as much as I do!

Below is the older porch on the pre-civil war part of the house, this is the one we are going to make into a four seasons sun room. We will put steps on this side so we can enter from the picket fenced area. Windows that we have purchased will be from ceiling to floor. We are going to keep the old wainscoted ceiling, we love it. We will be putting a fire place in here also. A very cozy place to sit in the winter while the snow is coming down! It has two front doors, one entering into the office and the other into our bedroom. The rooms used to be front and back palors. If you scroll down to my first post you can read about the history of our home.

A warm misty evening last summer!

Now how is this for a porch? This beautiful place is a resort in Bedford, Pa. My daughter works for this chain called Benchmark Corporation. My husband and I used to stop in Bedford on our trips to NJ and admire this beautiful place before Benchmark purhased and restored it over the past three years. We plan to spend a few days here later this year.

This is what it looked like before it was restored. My husband and I always stop at places like this, we just loved it here and hoped one day it would be restored. Our wish was answerd.

Thank you for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed this little tour of our porch! Now I'm going to take the rest of the day to relax with my kitties and puppies, take my lap top out and look at everyone else's porch. I'm sure I will get some wonderful decorating ideas. A home is never done!