All New Photos Of The Front Of Our House (Before & Progress)

I’ve to start out out by displaying this image that captures the massiveness of the oak tree in our entrance yard. It’s difficult to seize the entire tree in a photograph as a result of it’s so huge. I like this tree, and I’m at all times so unhappy when fall comes and it loses all of its leaves.

However now let’s get to the home. I went again and located “earlier than” photos from two totally different years in order that we may evaluate what this home appeared like again then with the progress I’ve made thus far. We’ll begin with the entrance of the home the day that we closed on our home again in August 2013. It was fairly drab, however I noticed nice potential on this little home.

This subsequent image is from early spring in 2016. That is after I was desirous about portray the home yellow, so I had yellow paint samples on the entrance of the home. We had changed the home windows in the lounge, however the remainder of the home just about appeared the identical. I like these photos higher than my unique “earlier than” photos from three years earlier as a result of you possibly can really see extra of the home because the bushes don’t’ have many leaves on them.

And right here’s what it seems to be like at present…

Right here’s one other one from the day that we purchased the home…

That is what it appeared like within the early spring of 2016 with a number of new home windows, a brand new mailbox, and some yellow paint samples, however every part else nonetheless just about the identical.

And right here’s that very same view at present…

Clearly, I nonetheless have quite a bit to do on the entrance of our home and in our entrance yard, however this little home has come a good distance!

About 4 months in the past, town began engaged on our avenue, tearing out outdated crumbling curbs and pouring new curbs. I’m actually grateful that we now not have crumbling curbs, however I certain do want that they had changed all of them as a result of now the curbs are two totally different colours. I attempted strain washing all of them, and after they have been moist, they have been all the identical shade. However then they dried two totally different colours once more. Oh, properly. That’s out of my management

I feel the 2 adjustments that made the largest distinction are (1) changing the storage into my studio, and (2) pouring a brand new driveway that goes to the again of the home.

After which utterly redoing the entrance porch has made all of the distinction as properly. It was a concrete porch with slender concrete steps resulting in a slender sidewalk.

And now I’ve a wooden porch (which I constructed over the concrete porch), beefier white columns, broad entrance steps with handrails, and a a lot wider sidewalk.

I simply love these outdated photos and seeing how far this home has come.

I like the progress thus far. It has taken years to get up to now, however the truth that I’ve completed a lot of this on my own, with my very own two fingers, makes me proud.

However after all, I’ve so many extra plans. After I get again to the surface initiatives (hopefully later this yr when it cools down), my first precedence will likely be including steps to the brand new bed room door over on the far left aspect of the home. After which I’d like to get began on landscaping. I’ve such grand plans for that little space in entrance of the breakfast room home windows to the correct of the entrance porch.

I took these photos yesterday at about 7:00pm with the solar taking place behind our home, in order that made the entrance porch look fairly darkish. In particular person, it doesn’t look darkish like that. There’s fairly a distinction between seeing the home in a small photograph on a pc or telephone display and seeing it in particular person.

I feel a number of folks have been confused about the place the steps that I constructed a few months in the past have been positioned. These steps are on the aspect of my studio (i.e., the unique storage), in order that they’re on the correct finish of the home by the driveway. You possibly can see beneath that the driveway goes to the again of the home to the carport that we had constructed in the course of the garage-to-studio mission. After which my workshop sits proper behind the carport.

The solar was actually brilliant on this aspect of the home after I took these photos, however right here’s a greater view of the studio, carport, and workshop format.

So in actuality, you don’t ever see the 2 pink doorways collectively. My aspect studio door is pink, however it’s important to be wanting on the home at an angle to see it, and you’ll’t actually see the entrance door to our home from that angle.

When you get far sufficient to see the pink entrance door, you possibly can now not see the aspect studio door.

I’m so happy with all the enhancements I’ve made to the entrance (and aspect) of our home, however I actually can’t wait to handle that space in entrance of the breakfast room home windows. It has such potential, however proper now, it seems to be a bit unhappy and forgotten. I envision a pergola above the breakfast room home windows constructed utilizing the identical brackets that I used on the aspect of the studio, however in a smaller dimension. And naturally, I’ve shared in previous posts that I’d like to have a fountain or water characteristic of some variety in that space. And naturally, crops. Plenty of crops.

And I nonetheless need window packing containers beneath the home windows on the studio, and doable beneath the window to the left of the entrance steps. Constructing these window packing containers continues to be on my record of issues to do. I’ve to chortle at the truth that I’ve dreamed of window packing containers on these home windows for years now, after which I went and constructed window packing containers for my workshop earlier than I constructed them for the home.

I do know it’s onerous to see particulars of the entrance porch from such a distance in a small photograph, however y’all, I’m so happy with our entrance porch. For the primary time since we’ve lived right here, I really feel just like the entrance porch is definitely completed. It had upgrades by way of the years, however it by no means had a completed skirting till now. And the truth that the skirting matches the stone on the left aspect of the home is so thrilling to me.

Right here’s what the home appeared like from that angle again within the spring of 2016.

After which there’s the door on the opposite aspect of the home. Sure, it’s a bit odd to have two doorways on the entrance of a home, however with that Hardie trim eliminated and the brand new fake stone added, I like the best way it seems to be now. I feel it’ll be so cute as soon as it’s all completed with steps, crops, and maybe a bit pergola over the door to match the one over the breakfast room home windows (if I can determine find out how to connect it to stone).

After I look again at these outdated photos, I’m wondering how I ever noticed the potential on this…

However I’m so glad I did! I get exhausted simply pondering again over all the effort that went into these initiatives, however they have been so well worth the effort.

Okay, I really feel like I took a couple of thousand photos, and I’ve a tough time narrowing down those I wish to share, so I’m simply going to publish the remainder of these with none commentary. Get pleasure from! (Facet observe: As I used to be enhancing these photos, I noticed that I may flip a whole lot of these photos right into a youngsters’s guide known as “The place’s Tiger?” He appears to make an look in most of them. 😀 )