When I was a younger man I did not own industrial quality machines and I was prone to wearing out parts on the machines I used in my work. T...

Roofing the porch was a pretty typical shingle roofing job. I was lucky when all the shingles were in place and it was time to bridge the...

In construction the right sequence of events is important and now that the post and rim joist were attached to the house structure it was ti...

As we continued to make progress on the porch it was time to work toward adding the feature that the old porch never had.....a roof. We w...

A Dance Floor and Rafter Tails The flooring we decided to use on the porch is a KDAT 3 1/2" tongue and groove material that is very s...

A while back there was a post on the blog titled "Just Add Wood". This post is a follow up to show the wood added to a couple of t...

When Julie and I were building our house we stayed the course and put all the details I had designed into each of the respective roo...