I hopped out of bed this morning all ready to start shingling the front of the house, upstairs, and took a really good look at the pictures in the instructions. Hmm, the porch roof comes above the "seam" between downstairs & upstairs & I am slap out of spackle, AND I'm going to have to install the porch to see how far up the upper front wall I need to go before shingling. Of course, I'll have to spackle some more and then "wash" the "stucco" with the yellow/ yellow ochre mixture. So I began to paint porch trim & assembled the porch roof until DH awoke & was ready for breakfast.Because we did so much cycling this weekend we were both sore, so we combined needs and rode into town to the hardware store where I purchased another tub of spackle.The "stucco" is finally done & dry and ALL the trim is painted. I made a lovely "wash" and have completed the left (as you're facing the house front) wall. As soon as it's dry I'll do the right wall, and then the downstairs house front, and THEN I can begin to install the porch. Reading some of the other team members' blogs, I guess I'm in for a real treat. I've got some really cute porch furniture.The front door doesn't close tight; this has always fascinated me, because the door parts punch out of the door opening on die-cut kits, and then one sands the door edges & the opening edges, and does only one light layer of paint to tint the edges, so one would expect the doors to open & close Time to paint another wall.Complements of havanaholly