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Hey, it doesn't look like it's gonna rain. We're moving ahead with the paint. And I'm
very excited about it because we're getting the front porch finished. And I had Tony do
a couple of mockups for me. They're basically, well, they're almost 7 inch square. Which
I'm happy with the proportion of the column itself. They're solid wood treated. They're
gonna last forever. But let me show you want we're gonna have him do. They say an eco-friendly
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exclusively on eHow Home. What we have here is a base block, which is made of that material
that we used for the trim boards. It's got a 40 year warranty. This has a 40 year warranty
on it. It's rough cut, but hey, this is what we're calling farmhouse chic, so it needs
to be a little rough. Tony, while I was away, mocked up a cap. I had a model for him to
look at. He built it exactly the way it was designed. But what I came down here and saw
is that it's really too big–and–just for the proportions of this house. So what he
did yesterday is he came down–we decided to cut it almost in half. And this proportion
is much more attractive. And so, what I wanna do is just show you what we did here. What
we have is about 4 inches of collar here, which actually goes up beyond, up behind here.
A 2 inch by 2 by 1 inch piece here. And then just a little trim mold here. And then a block
here at the top. Again, we're trying to follow some classical proportions. This is a rustic
farmhouse, so we're not, like, being a slave to Palladio or anything. And the other thing
we're gonna do is he's gonna to chamfer the sides of these posts. And you see, they're
pretty rough, so we're gonna do kind of a course sanding. I don't want all of the grain
to go away because it really kind of matches the grain of the materials that we've used
to trim out the whole house. What he's gonna do is he's gonna chamfer. From this point
to here will be left alone, so what will come down is we'll come down 4 to 6 inches here.
He'll chamfer the corner. Let me set this down and show you. So chamfering just means
you're just gonna sort shave off the corner. And what he did is he did a 3/4 here and 1/2
inch chamfer here. And I went with the half inch chamfer. I didn't want it too deep. So,
like I said, he's gonna come down about 6 inches. He'll chamfer in. It'll have a little
bit of cove. I'll come all the way down on the post, all the way down to here, to 1 foot
from this point here. It just adds a nice little detail to it. We'll knock off the rough
edges here. And these guys right here will paint it our Super White color, and it's gonna
be beautiful. If you're enjoying these updates on how the house is coming along, hey, there's
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