Facelift

This past weekend's Sunday project was a quick face lift on the main facade of the porch. Even though we are making a lot of progress, the front of the house still looked pretty shabby as the photos show.

East Porch before.

Front Entrance before.

The paint was peeling of in a number of places, and the old traces of the former ivy infestation were all to visible from the street. A couple of hours and a gallon of paint later, and the results speak for themselves:

Front Entrance After.

Now it looks nice and CRISP. I replaced the old tiny brass house numbers that were BARELY visible from the street with more distinctive 5" numbers that are easy to see and make a statement. 

Front view after.

I also put out the window box planters and hung the hanging baskets that were brought over from the old house. They're a little small scale wise at this point, but as the baskets fill out over the next few months they'll look more like they belong. 

I still have a few more days of scraping and painting to get the rest of the trim polished up, but all in all a very satisfying day.

Plum Perfect - Follow up

A bit later than I anticipated, but here's a snap of the "new look" for the dining room.

Dining Room

Still need to rehab the floor and do one more coat of the purple and retouch the ceiling medallion, but making progress! Definitely an improvement don't you think!

Plum Perfect

First... a note about the lack of posts.... First we moved... Then the computer died... then we had no internet... So now you know! Needless to say in that month or so a lot has happened, so I'll try and run it down for you over the next few days. NOT in any particular order...

Today, progress in the dining room which along with the living room are really the only two MAJOR inside projects that we have plans to deal with in the next few months.

A couple of BEFORE pictures. The room was a BLINDING shade of red. Now I like red... (I even painted the kitchen a lovely shade of red) but this red was RED-ICULOUS! In addition the ceiling was sagging and damaged from the water leak in the second floor bathroom. The entire ceiling had to come down and be replaced. In addition, we had to come up with a new light fixture since, like all of the other fixtures, it had been ripped out by the previous owners.

I decided that I wanted to do a purple room, and decided that the dining room was probably the best candidate. I debated for a while on the exact shade, but finally settled on a deep purple that I'd say is a plum color. Not finished yet, but I'm liking the results so far! I'll post some photos of the new space later this week.

Ceiling ripped out...

I'll admit that it was a bit frightening, but I went ahead and let them rip out the ceiling completely rather than just put new sheetrock over the old plaster... nothing left at this point but a single bulb and some floor joist and the underside of the master bedroom.