Things are looking good here. There's still a little bit of caulking I need to do and then touching up the paint, but most of our summer of exterior work is now done. After the roof work was complete, we were able to get the porch work finished up. (I also scrubbed the siding, removing most of the green algae that had built up over the years.)
The braces added to the columns were a nice touch that Evelin thought up. She'd seen another house in the area that had something similar, then did some digging and discovered these Ekena Millwork Thornton knee braces. We went with the smooth finish western red cedar ones and they really do look good.
We also moved the house numbers from one the short porch column (where they were hard to see, but not blocked by the camelia or the flag (or the now-moved crepe myrtle) to the lightpost. It's not perfect, but it'll do until we decide to try something else.
