Front Porches

With spring right around the corner, I have started to think about our front porch.  Every year I have grand ideas of making it spectacular and then..well....don't.  I've always wanted to hang curtains on the one side.  Our porch is covered and a decent size and I always thought those outdoor privacy curtains would look good on the one north side of our porch.  I just want it to feel more like a "room".  A place to sit and relax and enjoy the summer days.  I don't feel like that right now about it.  It is more of a dumping ground for sports stuff, boots, ect....Once the weather finally breaks, I am going to get the floors out there painted.  They haven't been painted in a few years and are getting pretty shabby looking...and not in the good shabby chic way.  The gross way.  Anyways, here are some cool front porch pics I found on flickr.....they get my idea juices flowing!