12 ~ 2 x 4 x 8 studs(discounted)
2 ~ 2 x 4 x 12 studs
2 ~ 2 x 8 x 12 studs
1 ~ 36″ wood screen door
1 ~ 36″ wood threshold
1 ~ iron screen door kit
Other necessary supplies to frame out the remaining two sides of the room ~ including several 2 x 4’s ~ already on hand.
By this time next week our carport should be transformed into a screen room. The carport was added to our house after the house was designed and built. There is a laundry/utility room to the rear and attic space above in it’s current configuration. Adding half-walls and screening the room in won’t look as tacky as it sounds ~ it will make the add-on carport seem more like part of the house.
Our first trip to Home Depot was to pick up supplies necessary for framing the screen room ~ next weekend we pick up the siding (an acceptable ‘temporary fix’ for the lower walls until we can afford to build a brick half-wall to match the rest of the house), screen, stringer, base & cap. Oh ~ and a length of picket fence for the side of the house to add more privacy than the chain link fence affords. The weekend after that we are going to build a small corner fountain/pond (a quick/cheap but attractive design we saw on HGTV this weekend), put down gravel in the area beyond the cement covered area (’Cro wants some sort of ‘rock garden’) and a small brick area for our gas grill.
I’m so tired of my house looking so…trashy. Hehe…Barry and I are of different minds when it comes to what a yard is for. He thinks dead cars, engines on stands, miscellaneous junk without a purpose or a place are perfectly acceptable to have strewn about. Me…not so much. So far he has won out (I can’t help but feel a bit ashamed when we pull into our driveway.) Maybe once this project is complete he’ll move the collection of junk to the shed in the back yard, stow some stuff in the attic or just get rid of it.
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