Fall 2012

The front of the house has been painted grey and the shutters and door trim are painted dark red.  A few fall decorations too!

Work on the Exterior



Paul began painting the exterior of the house.  He has power washed and caulked and we've worked a little on the trim.

A few more updates

I decided to add another wall cupboard in the kitchen.  And since we've sold the Leeds house, I brought over the stuff that I'd had there on top of the kitchen cupboards and put some of it above these.  (The old kitchen cupboards go all the way to the ceiling so decorations on top of those.)

Paul began power washing the house to prepare for painting.  This shows the results of some of his work.  Some of the brick turned out real well - some you can't really tell much.  It also knocked off some old paint and hopefully, got rid of some of the dirt.

And I planted a few flowers around the chimney area.  Hopefully they'll do well.

Some 'Before' Pics of the outside

Just wanted to document some of the 'before' pics outside.  Now that the weather is warming up, it's time to start on the outside of the house.  We've begun to clear out the pine straw in the back yard - probably over 15 wheelbarrows full to the road so far (most of which gets picked up by passers by).  We're hoping to eventually get some grass back here and to get rid of the huge pine trees that drop all the pine straw and to get some flowers and color back here.
We also hope to pressure wash the exterior of the house and begin painting (before it gets too hot!).

Aaron on the patio - weeds and all.

Aaron helping fill the wheelbarrow with pine straw - Notice the ground is almost totally pine straw covered with a few weeds poking through here and there (and poison ivy).

Paul is spraying some of the poison ivy near the site of an old shed.

Doesn't show it real clear but wanted to show some of the mold growing on the outside plus the new soffits that require paint (after they put the new roof on last fall).

More of the dirty outside before any painting has begun.

One Job Done

Finally got the seat covers for the dining room chairs done.  I had to do 4 chairs in the striped pattern and 2 in the checked because when I went back to get the other piece of striped fabric, it was gone.