Everybody loves a porch ...
Because porches are magical.
—Erin Napier

Heaven's a julep on the porch.
—The Punch Brothers

The Matthews Project. Ben and Erin help an artist, with a penchant for front porches, find and create a picture-perfect home. Amanda Matthews is a calligrapher who had been living in San Antonio for seven years but was now ready to move back home to Mississippi. She was looking for a vintage home with room for a studio and — perhaps most importantly — a really nice front porch.

The Matthews Project. The Polk House, built in 1934 and has three bedrooms, two baths and is 1700 square feet —some of the aspects that Amanda was looking for. But it was lacking one main ingredient: a front porch.

The Matthews Project. With Amanda's renovation budget of $65,000, Ben and Erin were able to make Amanda's porch dreams come true with an all-new new facade that included a full, deep porch with new columns and railing.