The addition of a porch roof over the door of a workshop or tool house may be made both useful and ornamental. Pigs. 1 and 2 illustrate a design in which the porch roof is covered with imitation tiles cut out of oilcloth. This porch roof is suitable for fixing over a door 3 ft. wide. The framework is made of yellow or red pine, 1 1/2 in. square, of which 16ft. will be required; the various lengths being cut off in accordance with the dimensions shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Only one side of the porch is shown in Fig. 1, the other side being exactly uniform. The horizontal piece is mortised into the vertical one, and wedged at the back, all the joints being closed with paint and secured by nails or screws. For cutting out the tiles, obtain some odd pieces of oilcloth of any pattern desired. Cut out of sheet zinc or tin a, template of the pattern and size considered suitable, (Fig. 3), and from this template cut the tiles out of the oilcloth, care being taken to discard all pieces having holes in them. When a sufficient number of oilcloth tiles has been prepared - the roof under consideration requires fifty-five - paint them red on both sides, two coats; if only the upper side is painted, the sun and rain will cause them to curl up. Then nail them on to some thin wood, matchboard being preferable, using tinned tacks. Before commencing to nail the tiles down to the boards, a slip of wood 1/4 in. thick, Jin. wide, the length of the roof, must be fastened along the bottom edge to form an eaves plate, as shown at A (Fig. 1). Commence nailing the tiles on along the bottom edge, driving a tack in each top corner. The tacks holding the end tiles on each row must not be driven home, as it will be necessary to take these off in order to fasten the roof on to the framework. It is easier to paint the frame of the porch (giving it two coats) before fastening it over the door. After secuing the framework in position, by passing nails or screws through the vertical posts, the roof must be placed in situ so as to have an equal overlap at each end, the loose tiles being temporarily removed for this purpose. The top edge of the roof can be neatly finished off by nailing on a strip of wood 1 in. wide, 1/2in. thick, bevelled on the front edge, and painted to match the tiles. If the upper edge of the roof is in contact with a brick wall, it is advisable to flash the joint with sheet lead or zinc; but if the eaves of another roof pass over the door this flashing is unnecessary.

Design for a Small Porch.