Pretty much the only improvement we’ve done to this house since January is to remove the really horrible back patio roof:
(Michelle’s boyfriend Otto did this for us BTW.)
This has proven a 99% improvement. It lets a great deal more light into the kitchen and back of the house, and we can see greenery out the windows, instead of the dirty underside of a corrugated steel roof. The patio has become more usable in good weather (because it isn’t cold and mildewy), and surprisingly not less useful in bad weather. (Because bad weather generally comes from the southwest, i.e. the front of the house, so the roof overhang provides enough space to maneuver dryly around the patio without the full cover.)
Today I discovered the 1% situation where having a dark, fully covered patio would have come in handy. All that sun washes out the backlight on my laptop so it’s a pain to work outdoors.
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