A week ago, my friend Rach suggested I turn my back porch into somewhere nice to spend time. I thought about it a bit but wasn’t sure how. Where would I put all the stuff that was stored back there? But I managed to move things around and got some cheap, sheer curtains, and now I have this:
The porch is fully enclosed with glassed-in windows and a secure locked door. The space available is about 4′ x 6′. So I pulled one of the armchairs out of the living room and grabbed a little bookcase which had been doing duty as a bedside stand (but not performing very well in that function) and brought in the wooden sewing box that can act as a little table, at least for holding a cup of tea or my breakfast bowl.
The chair’s been out here for a few days now, on trial, and the impressive thing is that I’ve eaten breakfast every day since it’s been here. It’s nice to have somewhere relatively sunny to eat!
There’s a power outlet here and I’m going to run a few cables around and get a lamp and a radio in here (an Internet radio, even), but I’m planning to not have a laptop charger. That means I can use my laptop here, but I can’t sit here ALL DAY and use it.
The bookcase will be a new home for my knitting and cookbooks. Currently I have my favourite, most frequently used cookbooks on a shelf in the pantry, and the less frequently used ones in the living room at the other end of the apartment. This will bring them all near the kitchen, if not in the kitchen (the kitchen is through the interior window on the right of the photo) and give me a nice spot to sit and peruse them.
