Finally a porch!

Ever since we moved into this house we've wanted to turn the front porch into a usable space. The porch enclosure that was originally here was so ugly and rotten that we took it down when Riley was a baby. For several years there was no railing and your only option was to sit on the floor. Not pleasing.

Several years back Robbie had some cedar left over from a contracting job and used it to begin rebuilding our porch. It still needs the screen, but for all intents and purposes we have a functional outdoor room. The only thing lacking was furniture.

I've been looking for quite a while, but the only set that really caught my eye was one from the 50's that I found three years ago at a pawn shop. It was made by the Haywood-Wakefield company and includes a couch, two chairs and two tables. The shop wanted too much for it, so I let it go till recently, when I took a chance it'd still be there. To my surprise it was, so I offered the owner a fraction of his original asking price and he accepted it just to get it out of his shop. It suffered an 80's refurbishing at some point during its long life, with gloss white paint over the rattan and cotton chintz upholstering, but we're going to put an appropriate color on the rattan and recover it with some atomic age fabric.

Streamlined beauty!

Ahhh. Finally something to lounge on!

Gratuitous cuteness. Riley swinging "Higher and higher and higher and higher!"