Ok, I'm bad.....didn't I tell you I rarely stick with anything? My latest obsession, Facebook, has had me very distracted. I received a post on my blog recently, and realized I definitely have some projects to show off. Time to post something new!Since last post, nearly a year ago, we have actually accomplished quite a bit! This picture is a representation of "before" we had much done to the exterior of our house. Taken in July 2007 when we had just had the cedar shingles replaced, but they weren't quite finished yet....you can still see some tar paper on the roof peak.
Here is a nice "transitional" photo of the front. We have fixed the fascia, upgraded the trim around the door, replaced and painted the columns. Also, the front door was scraped and sanded. Unfortunately it remained like THIS for waaaayyyy too long. UNTIL.......
TA DA!! House all painted!! The two windows shown have now been restored and the front door finally painted (just last week). Of course we still have lots to do.... I just wish those darn shingles would fade...but the plan is also to add layers of smaller higher quality cedar shakes. This is just the "rough" base layer. Landscape is also needed, of course. Plus our new gutters and lamp were installed summer 2008. It took some time for me to adjust, the lamp seemed so HUGE at first....but most of the lamps we saw while shopping were gigantic like this..... I am have come to accept it and decided it actually makes a bold statement. Landscape will help hide the very unattractive "cement" skirt - common to all these old pier and beam houses. I suppose as a side task I should at least paint that piece of plywood grey - as we just used an old stray piece of plywood to cover it up when we had to tear a hole to get under the house right to replace the water main. We had a great deal of work done July 2007, right around the time we were planning a major trip to Germany (talk about stressful), and it wouldn't stop raining so our contractor was behind schedule. Of course, now we WISH it would rain like that!
Me Painting (proof)
the wrens built a nest so we painted around them and waited until all the babies were raised and left the nest before we could finish
The back deck last spring - looking forward to sprucing things up again this year, it's been awfully dry so hopefully we'll get some more rain to help green things up!
Resident lizard living behind our new Electric Panel - many of may recognize this as "Geico" - but those commercials are incorrect! We have lots of these here - and this type of lizard is not a Gecko - it is an Anole which is related to the Chameleon - and yes, these do change colors depending on their background and the temperature outside.Below is the new Electric panel - not pretty - but highly important!
Below - more proof I DO actually work on our house! Here I am working on the baseboards - taping and painting. (According to my husband, this is rare, men) I also countersunk all the nails, filled, and sanded all those little holes
Next photos are of the crown molding. Then I'll stop for today! I do have most of the seams filled and sanded, as well as nails countersunk and filled but not quite all sanded - as soon as I finish sanding the molding, I can finally paint it. We have one window complete, which I will post soon, and the 2nd window is in process.
Stefan installing crown in living room
you can see how we layered and built up the crown and the door frames
Here is a corner seem which I then fill with putty and sand - I have already filled and sanded the nail holes here.
and here is a picture of the carport - you can see the new roof also
The newly painted black front door made a HUGE impact!
LASTLY....BUT NOT LEAST
HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEFAN!
I love you!
Ok! That's all for today...stay tuned!
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