CH: Day 22
Jenine suggested infilling the wall above the diamond window with wider boards to make it all go faster. Cody suggested same but added “Rather than infill all of that space with siding that you have to scramble to find, and will have to later rip down…”
I read that in my car just after pulling into the Cross House driveway.
And I thought: “Oh. That’s true. I will just tear out the upper siding when the porch roof is created. I went to my blog and pulled up…
…this picture. Save a small triangle to the upper left there will be no upper lap-siding.
Oh.
Oh.
I restarted the car and drove the few blocks to Mark II lumberyard. A short while later two 12-foot-long, 12-inch-wide boards of some cement-like material were delivered.
And I got one installed! The second board will complete the wall siding.
See the horizontal lines I drew? My cunning plan is, after the siding is painted, to take a black magic marker and draw faux siding lines on! It might just work!
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I love it! It’s very un-Ross-like to take such a shortcut, but in this case, it makes a ton of practical sense. If makeup artists can “paint” shadows on actors’ bodies to make them look more muscular, then why can’t you use a black marker to make fake siding boards?
The wider boards are a great idea. The new porch roof will hide most of it anyway. Seeing the clapboards with paint applied looks 100% better. Job well done.
Ah, I knew there was a creative solution somewhere.
Ingenious… You are so lucky to have such an “army” of fans and friends, watching and offering suggestions! I know that we are probably a pain sometimes, everyone has their own opinions about what you should and shouldn’t do, but instances like this make it all OK. I don’t know how many times I have been 2/3 of the way through a project, only to have someone ask a question or make a remark that gets me to thinking that there is a better way. Kudos to Cody; it would be a shame to install all of that siding, and then later have to take it down again to build the porch roof.
My kind of Hack!
Great minds!!! Great solution!!!
Brillliant.
Great solutions: affordable, easy, simple. We learn from the master.
Now that the door is placed. I think you should take a photo straight on from the Cross House, then take a sharpie and draw this porch sketch mockup onto the photo to see exactly what it will look like with the roof and pillar post in the corner. Most of what I have seen is either a straight on view from the west or a view from the NW corner at an angle, like this drawing. I think you should do one looking straight to the south at what the north entrance to the Carriage House will look like from the Cross House.
I think the pillar will give the illusion of supporting the turret. I think it will also cover your view of part of the door.