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Cedar wood porch: a concise orientation before we get practical.

Update your 70’s home with this DIY cedar porch column update! Easier than you think!

Hello friends! Let’s talk house stuff today, shall we? Specifically, DIY Cedar wood porch columns. Gosh, I really wanted to do the final reveal for the house makeover and cedar porch columns once all the landscaping and new sidewalk situation was done. But things always take so much longer than planned to complete. Ugh. Such is life, right? Well, maybe not for everyone, but it is for us! lol

We got a quote for the landscaping and choked. Haha, so we held off and did the other things. We are circling back to the landscaping this spring, but we will do most of the work ourselves. We’ll see how it goes! I’ll keep y’all up to date as we go with that, too. Landscaping is going to make such a huge difference here. I can’t wait to share.

But first.

Let’s take a look at how we majorly updated our 1970’s home by adding a little Cedarwood to our front porch. (and paint, new shutters, new front door, etc.)

However, the new wood columns take center stage. They were the thing that really made the difference.

As a reminder, here is our house when we first moved in.

And once we gave it a little updating.

We have since added a new roof, new front door, new shutters, new windows, new paint, and now new cedar wood porch columns.

MATERIALS LIST

1 x 8 x 8 Cedar Wood
1 x 6 x 8 Cedar Wood
1 x 4 x 8 Cedar Wood
Wood Filler
Brad Nailer
Sandpaper
Pre-Stain Wood Conditioner
Stain
Stain Applicator

This is the wood we used. Granted, it’s been a while, so prices may have changed, but I wanted to include these so you’d be able to find them easier.

My husband cut the cedar boards to the size we needed to cover the old columns.

To make it work seamlessly, we had to put spacers like this…

We used 1 x 6 on 2 sides and 1 x 8 on the other two.

So happy to be covering up these old columns.

We decided to trim the tops and bottoms of our Cedar porch columns.

We did, however, want to leave room for water/moisture to escape. So my husband used this to create the space.

See the gap?

And the tops.

I’m the “finisher” on all of our projects. So, I filled all the holes with stainable wood filler.

Once that was all dry, I lightly sanded to smooth the finish.

Time for stain – DIY Cedar wood porch columns.

I started with Walnut, which I used on the door. However, Cedar is a totally different wood, so it didn’t take quite the same. In order to make it “match”, I ended up using straight Cappuccino instead.

I applied Pre-Stain Wood Conditioner before the stain.

Next, stain.

Okay, so let me be full disclosure here. I used Fusion’s Stain and Finishing Oil on my front door and columns. They are not necessarily rated for outdoors, but I used them anyway. The door has been stained for several years now and is holding up wonderfully. I figured, let’s just keep an eye on it and adjust/add a topcoat, etc., as needed. So far, nothing is needed.

So, what is it that parents say?? haha Do as I say, not as I do! lol But hey, you can probably do as I did with the same great results as well.

Loving this new look!

The perfect way to update that old 70’s house!

I’ll share more photos once we have our landscaping in place and a new sidewalk. Stay tuned for that in the spring.

There are so many things you can do to update an older home. I’m so thrilled with the ones we chose to update ours. I feel like I live in a completely different home! And I love that there are simple ways to make you love the home you live in, too.

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