Happy 3rd Anniversary, House ...

{House the day we put a contract down! July 2007}

She was cute before, but we have since: Removed the old window boxes; Put on new gutters; Removed the random smaller trees that were trying to steal the spotlight from the beautiful oak that towers over them; Put in a new driveway & front walk;  Put in plantation shutters [interior, but improved the look of the exterior!];  Removed the 50 year old shrubs; ; Put in a front sitting area & new plantings to fill the space of the old shrubs;  And as of last week ... we have had all the wood rot repaired & have given the house a fresh coat of paint. 

According to some neighbors ... the house hadn't been painted in 25-30 years [because they've been here that long & it hasn't been painted since they've lived here]. It showed.  The house color was so faded no one knew what color it was.  I called it a light gray.  The kids called it white.  Someone else asked if it a pale blue.  Now there's no guessing ... it is a Sherwin-Williams Dorian Gray, with Eider White trim & Black Fox shutters.  The door we kept the same cranberry red that I painted it last summer.

The front porch still has to get painted ... we held off for a few days since we expected heavy foot traffic due to hundreds of 2x4s & 2x6s [and whatever else] needing to make their way into the house for the basement remodeling project [as one project ends, another begins].  :)  I am loving the fresh, rich, crisp look of the house.  She's lookin' mighty fine for 57!