The front of our house gets hot in the sun and is faded and
needs to be updated. The door will be
replaced soon, and the shutters and trim and garage doors are scheduled to be
painted.
It looks shabby. When
we moved into the house it was shiny and new.
We only have ourselves to blame for the general dilapidation of the
front of our house. That and twelve
years of sun.
I remember when all the neighbors were adding decorative
touches to their front doors like door knockers and kick plates and fancy
handles. We were daring and nailed our
house numbers right onto our metal door.
Everyone used brass accessories back then. Now our neighbors are doing away
with the brass; it is no longer in style. Our house numbers are rusty.
In about a week the front of our house will be finished. We will have a new door and the
shutters and garage doors will be another color. The sun will continue to shine on the front of our house, and in
twelve years it will need to be updated again.
I wonder if we will be doing the updating.
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It's fun to get a makeover for the house, but I always kind of miss the time-worn memories that get erased in the process. Lovely way to capture those details!
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean. We re-painted a room, erasing my children's height marks over the years. I transposed them to a piece of paper, but haven't yet added them to the wall. They keep asking when I'm going to do that. :)
DeleteHouses sound like a lot of work! I bet you'll love it when it is done though :)
ReplyDeleteHouses ARE a lot of work! Fortunately, none of this work will be done by mew. Which ensures that I will love it ten times more.
DeleteOops! I meant to say me, not mew. Although that reminds me of my daughter's Henrietta Pussycat phase.
DeleteMy husband and I were just talking about remodeling last night. It's definately not a job I look forward to!
ReplyDeleteUgh. We did some general sprucing up last year on the interior of our home. I love the result, but I am glad that I don't have that to look forward to.
DeleteDoesn't look shabby to me! I like the curvy garden entrance. Very nice. Good luck with your updates, sounds like fun!
ReplyDeleteThank you! It's remarkable what a little photo enhancement can do. ;)
DeleteThere's really nothing better than home renovating- I want to see more of your house, please. Now.
ReplyDeleteI love the finished product. For about twenty minutes, because I'm fickle like that.
DeleteI'm always apprehensive about sharing my home online. So much opening to judgment. Will you notice all the IKEA? The cheap lamps from Target? Is my kids' framed art too much? What do people REALLY think of my cork sculpture?
My house is over 85 years old and faces west. Needless to say, it could use some primping. Now that you are an expert, you may come over and spruce my house up.
ReplyDeleteHa! Did I leave out the part where I said we are paying someone else to do this particular job?
DeleteI have no problem with you paying someone to come over to my house and spruce it up :)
DeleteBwahahaa....
DeleteHa!
DeleteGorgeous house! What a great way to document what you're doing.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I can't wait to see the finished product. Maybe another blog post?
DeleteWe are bad at the whole decorating/updating thing. Our daughter is five and we never really did a bang-up job on her room. Oh, well, now she can pick her current favorites.
ReplyDeleteTrying to figure out what color to paint the construction white walls...seven years later. And the carpet needs to be replaced with hard floors because one kid plus three cats equals nasty carpets.
Maybe when you get finished at Dyanne's you'll come here?
Ha! Well, I did install some weather-stripping around the front door earlier today, so I guess that makes me an expert. I could probably hammer out your painting/flooring job in about never. ;)
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