Porches Should Not be an Afterthought

My mom read this quote to us out of a magazine over the weekend and I couldn't agree with it more.  Because of the mild temperatures, minimal humidity in the mountains and the fact that we still do not have a kitchen table we spend a lot of time on our porch.  Here is some inspiration for the porch I've gathered recently...

We pretty much always have an empty bottle of wine on hand and I think this would be a fun way to repurpose them...especially if we could find citronella oil to use to keep the bugs away.  Not sure how our land lord would feel about us drilling hole in the porch posts...but its worth asking about!

We already have mint, oregano, chives and rosemary growing in pots on the deck but we'd like to add tomatoes and basil to our little potted garden and we're thinking a hanging basket will be the perfect way to do that.  The plan is to plant basil in the middle and let some grape or cherry tomato vines hang down the side.  We'll see if we can actually pull it off...