Here are a few pictures of the renovated porch!  We found the perfect orange couch on Craig's List for $50, a sweet and inexpensive paper lantern at Urban Outfitters, and mirrored birds at the Mass. Museum of Contemporary Art.  The porch is cozy, bright, and a perfect spot for morning coffee or late afternoon cocktails. 

Finally catching up on the house blog-- here are photos from the porch renovation in summer 2010.  Bruce and Nate took out the drop ceiling, the fake pine paneling, and three layers of green astro-turf on the floor to uncover the original porch-- including a beadboard ceiling!  We installed new wainscoting under the windows put in a new bamboo floor, and repainted the walls and ceiling in white and pale green.  Now it's one of our favorite rooms in the house!