RGT Half-scale Bungalow porch

[forjenn]

I recently started building the RGT half-inch scale bungalow. I've been looking through the forums and the galleries--great ideas!

 

I am wondering how others have finished the porch floor. Did you leave it the bare wood, either painted or stained, or install flooring? I fear the posts won't fit if I put flooring on, but I can see it would be difficult to put on flooring after the posts and railings are in.

 

Any ideas? It's the one bit of the house the instructions don't cover--when to finish the floor of the porch :-)

 

Jennifer 

[Sable]

You could always trim off the posts ends. Sometimes, just s bit of sanding would be enough.

[havanaholly]

Is it too fiddly to dry fit the posts and railings and trace around them, then remove them and install flooring except where the posts and railings will go?

[forjenn]

Good ideas. Thank you! I'm debating. Many craftsman era bungalows in my town have cement porch floors--it's a hot climate and board flooring doesn't do well. I might paint it to look like cement. 

 

Jennifer

[havanaholly]

Prime it and give it a thin skim of spackle to make it more like cement.