Monday, November 5, 2012

The outside of our house!

I know we don't have a lot of readers, but I wanted to let the few of you see pictures of our house.  It was built in 1890, has 4-5 bedrooms and 2 baths. There are 4 fireplaces, but I doubt any of them work. We have lived here for almost 5 months, and although we have not done any major projects, we feel like the house is beginning to look nicer already.  Here is a list of what we have done to the outside:

Tore down old wood fence
Pulled tons of weeds
Planted grass in backyard
Power-washed garage
Painted garage door and trim
Hired tree guy to cut down 6-7 trees
Cleaned a billion spider webs off the house
Attempted to fix leaking gutters
Successfully patched a hole in the roof of the porch
Started painting the trim on the house

I still want to figure out how to successfully fix our leaking gutters, replace the gutters on one side of the garage and finish painting the trim on the bay windows before it gets too cold. Then it is indoor projects until spring!

After the cleaning, scraping, caulking and painting:
 Before:
 Backyard and garage:
 Side of the house:
 View from the front/side:
 Front porch (obviously an addition that does not match the style of the house):

6 comments:

  1. What a lovely home! I love all the detailed woodwork. You guys are doing excellent work. I'm looking forward to reading more updates as you make progress.

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  2. Looks awesome! You live in a cool house :)

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  3. Good job on the trim paint job. Looks really nice up close. :)

    As for the gutters, if you really want to try to do it yourself, there are some blog sites that might help you with that. Some of those are even blogs of actual roofing and gutter companies, so you should get some good tips from there. Myself, I just opted for professional help, since I can’t do it myself.

    Maricela Milum

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  4. So, how did the gutter reno go? Did you opt to have it done professionally or did you do it yourself? I really like the classic brick look of the whole thing, and that bay window looks great.

    Keaton Oakes

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