Actually, the front porch IS my topic!

[JDgreen]

I do not get what "blah" means. Is that an American word for something? Thank you for helping me catch the language better. I am learning a lot here.

Glad you are learning a lot, me too !! Blah refers to dull, ordinary, mundane, lifeless. The man wants us to give him ideas on how to jazz up, give his porch pizzaz, OOPS...more inane words, sorry.

He wants his porch to be more attractive, inviting, accent his house more, be better coordinated than the plain appearance it now has. He can use colors, plantings, add items to make it look better than BLAH. Hope this helps. :smile:

 

[AndyMan]

JD - poor you with your boring old bi-level hot tub & grill enhanced party deck - Let me with my fancy shmancy rectangle-with-a-chimney-pipe-sticking-through-it-deck be the one to give you advice. :tongue:

How about plants, awnings, furniture and a coat of paint. Between the four of those you can set just about any mood you are looking for.

Me, I just go for functional:

 

[JDgreen]

JD - poor you with your boring old bi-level hot tub & grill enhanced party deck - Let me with my fancy shmancy rectangle-with-a-chimney-pipe-sticking-through-it-deck be the one to give you advice. :tongue:

How about plants, awnings, furniture and a coat of paint. Between the four of those you can set just about any mood you are looking for.

Me, I just go for functional:

My dad loved to say---"you can go fancy, or you can go cheap" and he always chose the latter...the last new car he owned was a dealer closeout plain jane 4 door painted a color my brother and I called "goat-vomit green" when the old man wasn't around to hear us...:laughing:

Gotta post of pic of my deck, too cold for plants, awning would collapse from weight of the snow, furniture is stored for the winter, and the paint is covered under a layer of icy snow, so you cannot see the new stain I applied last fall.

Your deck..well, my dad would have been proud of you, thats worth a lot in my book...:thumbsup:

 

[adan]

This is an amusing thread. Rocky has never clarified what he wants. We just know he finds his porch "blah" and wants ideas to change it. Classic A to B question. We don't know where "A" is nor where "B" is. But we're very sure we're somewhere in the middle. A military pilot got lost in the middle of Sulu Sea this way

 

[JDgreen]

This is an amusing thread. Rocky has never clarified what he wants. We just know he finds his porch "blah" and wants ideas to change it. Classic A to B question. We don't know where "A" is nor where "B" is. But we're very sure we're somewhere in the middle. A military pilot got lost in the middle of Sulu Sea this way

Amusing, huh? Let's all post a picture of our decks and porches and maybe poor Rocky can finally decide what he wants. Gonna rush out and take pics of mine BRB....:laughing:

 

[JDgreen]

My dad loved to say---"you can go fancy, or you can go cheap" and he always chose the latter...the last new car he owned was a dealer closeout plain jane 4 door painted a color my brother and I called "goat-vomit green" when the old man wasn't around to hear us...:laughing:

Gotta post of pic of my deck, too cold for plants, awning would collapse from weight of the snow, furniture is stored for the winter, and the paint is covered under a layer of icy snow, so you cannot see the new stain I applied last fall.

Your deck..well, my dad would have been proud of you, thats worth a lot in my book...:thumbsup:

Here is my horribly "blah" party deck...winter version.

 

[JDgreen]

My dad loved to say---"you can go fancy, or you can go cheap" and he always chose the latter...the last new car he owned was a dealer closeout plain jane 4 door painted a color my brother and I called "goat-vomit green" when the old man wasn't around to hear us...:laughing:

Gotta post of pic of my deck, too cold for plants, awning would collapse from weight of the snow, furniture is stored for the winter, and the paint is covered under a layer of icy snow, so you cannot see the new stain I applied last fall.

Your deck..well, my dad would have been proud of you, thats worth a lot in my book...:thumbsup:

Deck for smaller parties...winter version

 

[monica123]

We need to revamp our deck in the spring as well and maybe put a roof on it so we have some protection from the elements, that's how were leaning now.

 

[Hershey]

I do not get what "blah" means. Is that an American word for something? Thank you for helping me catch the language better. I am learning a lot here.

Blah means bland, boring, unattractive, without color. I guess it is American slang. It's fascinating how words like that feel so common to one but are completely foreign to others.

 

[Stevie-Ray]

When we first moved into our present home in the early 80s, the porch was a poured 5x6. We used it too much, sitting on it talking with the neighbors and simply watching traffic or whatever, to leave it as is. We had it ripped out and widened and lengthened to 6x14. NOW we had a front porch and it was great for a few years until my wife decided she wasn't a sun-worshipper anymore. Then we had a custom-built wooden awning installed and it's been that way ever since. Maybe 20 years now. We added a large deck on the back of the house with a built-in hot tub, and that's been maybe 12-15 years. Now, though, we are moving north to a larger house and I've had to start all over again. Porches start probably next year.:frown: