Cottage Enclosure Kit

The perfect solution to increasing the footprint of our storage or living versions of our Vermont Cottages, 16-foot wide Barn and 16-foot wide One Bay Garage designs. This enclosed porch kit includes everything you need to add an extra room to your post and beam building. Use this addition to make a workshop, mudroom, connected storage space, or simply extend the living area. Whatever reason for needing more space, this enclosed porch will help meet your needs.

What Is Included

• Hemlock Skids, Floor Joists and Decking
• 4×4 Rough Sawn Hemlock Post and Beam Wall Framing
• Knotty Eastern White Pine Board-and-Batten Siding
• 1×8 Fascia Trim with 1×4 Shadow Board
• Hemlock Roof Rafters with Fly Rafters
• 29 Gauge Evergreen Corrugated Metal
• Fastening Hardware
• Assembly Instructions

Style Your Enclosed Porch

Possible floor upgrades include pressure treated floor framing and decking as well as 3/4″ CDX plywood decking or 2″ pine tongue & groove decking. Siding choices consist of a variety of pine and cedar options. Pine siding selections include shiplap, clapboard, log cabin style, novelty, and adirondack live-edge. Cedar siding varieties include western red cedar clapboard, western red cedar shingles, western red cedar shakes or white cedar shingles. Also, choose a different roof color or select from these other roofing types: asphalt architectural/3-tab shingles, ClearPoly, or western red cedar shingles/shakes.

Metal Roof Swatches

Asphalt Roof Swatches

Other Important Info

The roof pitch of the enclosed porch kit is 3/12. Reference your buildings specifications wall height and the roof pitch to determine if the outer wall height will work. Keep in mind where you will be placing doors and what the swing will be.

This porch kit has been designed for installation on the bearing wall of our designs that are 16-feet wide with fly rafters. If purchasing to install on another building we recommend working with an experienced builder.

This product is compatible with the following storage designs:

Vermont Cottage A
Vermont Cottage B
Vermont Cottage C
Barn (16x)
One Bay Garage (16x)

This product is compatible with the following living designs:

Vermont Cottage A
Vermont Cottage B
Vermont Cottage C

Other Cottage Overhang and Porch Designs:

Cottage Porch Kit – with floor system and roof
Cottage Overhang Kit – with pressure treated sill and roof

Other Enclosed Porch Styles:

Basic – 4×4 Post and Beam
Box Beam – 6×6 Post and Beam
Mortise and Tenon – 8×8 Post and Beam
Enclosure Kit – 4×4 Post and Beam