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The completed screened porch addition seen from the lawn.

A Porch Built to Look Original

Addition2022Russellville, Arkansas

Addition

A screened porch added to a historic house and built to read as original — designed, excavated, poured, framed, roofed into the existing structure and finished.

A repeat client wanted a screened porch on her historic house, and wanted it to look as though it had always been there. On an old house that is the difficult part. Not the building — the matching.

The work ran from design through concrete, framing and tying the new roof into the existing one, then trim, paint and screen. A roof tie-in is where an addition usually announces itself, so that is where the matching had to hold.

The brief itself was simple: somewhere to sit outdoors with her dogs.

Additions & Outdoor
Interior view of the finished porch ceiling and wraparound windows.
Finished.
The porch exterior clad in yellow siding matching the existing house.
Siding to match.
The finished porch interior with glazing on three sides.
Inside.
A SketchUp design model of the proposed screened porch addition.
Drawn first.
Excavated ground with formwork staked out for a new slab beside a yellow house.
Excavation.
A freshly poured concrete slab for the porch addition.
Slab poured.
The finished concrete slab in place against the house, ready for framing.
Cured, and ready.
The porch structure framed out with posts and roof structure in place.
Framing up.
Interior view of the porch ceiling framing under construction.
The ceiling, framed.
The porch exterior sheathed with a dark skirt and window openings framed.
Sheathed.
The completed screened porch on the yellow house, seen from the lawn.
From the yard.
The completed screened porch addition seen from the lawn.
From the yard.

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