New Project

I figured it was finally time to do something with the outside of the house before the neighbors really started hating us! At the end of the fall we had to pull up most of the landscape because it was growing out of control and was terrible. Now it is time to paint. I went through 5 different colors and I am not 100% convinced I like the color we went with. Oh well. It is definitely better than what it was. I think once everything is painted it will look great but now it looks funny because of the different colors.

Plus we are going to do something with the two small windows in the front. Right now I think I am just going to frame around them and paint that the burgundy but I have also thought about adding shutters. Not sure yet!

So you can get an idea of what the house looked like before, I have
included a before picture below.

Here is a picture of the front of the house. Please remember that it isn't finished yet! The dormer windows will be painted in the light tan color and you can see the two small windows I have to do something with. I am going to wait until I do something with them to decide if the poles should be the dark color or the tan.

Here is a closer view of the new paint.

This is a picture of the side of our house and how high we have to be able to paint. It is hard to tell but we have painted the top area with a VERY long pole. This side of the house gets all of the sun so we had to scrape off some of the paint, fix some of the boards and caulk some of the holes to prepare it for painting. Hopefully we will get this painted the tan color tomorrow! I think I am going to do the garage door in the burgundy.

A closer look at the top where my dad painted.