Workout Room

This is our upstairs porch. We have never really used it for anything, but always planned that it would be our workout room. We had the floor refinished several years ago. Spring break was when we began painting, but due to the 120 panes of glass in the windows, this was a time consuming process. Alas, the project continued into summer break. Finally done painting, and replacing the windows, we had the ceiling insulated with 3" thick rigid foam insulation. We covered that up with bamboo, which I don't really like the look of but it will do for now. Perhaps we'll take that down at some point and put up beadboard. In any case, the room is much cooler with the insulation. All the windows were screened, and we bought 3/4" foam gym mats for a nice cushiony base. In went our small collection of weights, etc. Let's see if we end up using it!!!

Downstairs Summer Porch

OK, so we worked on this last summer, but I never took the time to post it. Basically, this was a storage room for the first four years we lived here. We had the floors sanded, the bead board on the ceiling stripped and refinished. We painted. That doesn't seem like a big deal, but this room has 2 french doors containing 15 panes of glass a piece, and 6 windows with 12 panes of glass each. Consider priming, painting, then scraping and cleaning over 100 panes of window glass and you have yourself quite a project. Finally got around to having the windows screened this week. The porch features a window that looks into the back of our dining room built in, so you can see some of our ceramic bowls, etc. from the porch. I picked up these three vintage metal chairs from the 1950's for $5.00 apiece at a Pacoima second hand store, and the cute wicker plant stand at a garage sale on our street for a buck. The adirondaks make for a nice place to read or take an afternoon snooze!