Part 1, is the first floor.
Part 2, is the
exterior, you are here.
Part 3, is the
upstairs.
It’s time for Part
2 of the long awaited house tour posts, which will go over the layout of the
land. Again, it may be helpful to review the floor plan layout here.
Here is the charming
(sarcasm much) exterior of the house:
Front
Couldn’t find a before pic, so here’s the winter version of the left side.
Right side.
Didn’t find a before
pic so here is a Photoshopped version of the back of the house, where I
basically added the window.
As you see we have three
dormers, but they don't match.
We also have a porch which is also in need of much work. We would
eventually like to have a 2 sided porch from the front to the side entrance of
the house. We also contemplate adding on to the back of the house as well as
the left side of the house to gain a bit more square footage. Lastly, we have
some dreams of changing the exterior color as white is nice at times but it is
quite difficult to keep clean and make it look beautiful. Plus it’s a bit
difficult to match up existing siding due to fading, etc. Ahh someday…
And the garage.
More 'goodies' left behind.
White shows all the
dirt, maybe years of grime. Either way we are set on a dark color for the
exterior. We were just happy to have a two and a part car garage. Although we both agreed we would eventually take this one down (it would be in the way of an addition) and build a larger steel building.
Moving onto
landscaping. This is the primary
reason we purchased the house:
Again, no picture from when
we moved in, so snowy version it is.
The landscaping
here has not been maintained in years, so most is overgrown and random
placement. Nothing a chainsaw, transplanting, and replanting can’t fix someday.
Lets split them into categories shall we?
Trees
Flowers
Miscellaneous landscaping:
Now that I put you through
all that ugly how about some inspiration on what we would love for the exterior
of the house to look like:
Since the 'style' of the house is a craftsman bungalow, we thought we would stick with that style and just update the look- quite a bit. We’re thinking dark colors with white accents and columns
that are similar to the photos above. I’m hoping for grey, the boyfriend is
voting for red- who knows where we will end up.
How about you? Any color debating going on for you? How
about some really hideous before photos to light a fire under your tush?
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