Easy To Make Screened-In Porch

Listing #4155 Listed on: 06/07/2013 Company Name: Hudson Cabinetmaking, Inc.
Name: Russell Hudson Member
Website:   www.hudsoncabinetmaking.com/

WOODWEB Content Editor, Brett Hagstrom, Interviewed Russell Hudson in April 2014. You can listen to the audio interview by clicking on the link below.

  • Listen to: Easy to Make Screened-In PorchWe have an alcove on the outside of our home. It sits on one side of the house tucked in, underneath the second story above and has a slate floor. If it had enough windows, you might considerate it a sunroom. We also have a fireplace in the living room and a wood burning stove in the kitchen…so it ended up being the perfect place to store two-three cords of wood (so I wouldn’t have to march out in the snow to get a couple of logs twice a day)…but it became little used during the summer. My wife said she’d love to have a screened-in porch but I didn’t want to give up the perfect firewood storage area. So…I pondered how I might build a screened wall, 7 feet high and almost 26 feet long that could be stored out of the way in the winter but put into position during the summer. Three 8 and 1/2 foot sections would be made of 2x6′s (flat sides on the face) so that they were sturdy, fairly flat for storage, and substantial in weight but not so heavy that they couldn’t be moved a few feet each spring and fall.

    This first picture shows the cordwood stacked for the upcoming winter. The rectangle you see between the two windows are the three wall sections stacked together. They occupy less than a foot of space (depth) from the alcove’s back wall. The doorway on the right hand side wall (out of sight) lets me get wood within two steps of the house.

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