the red (orange??) door. . . .
We have been sticking around home lately and putting some more work into the house. The projects never end. We have a large list going on our fridge of things to do before we sell this house and it feels good to cross things off that list. Steve hammered away the old sidewalk to the house and so our front lawn is pretty ripped up right now. We are starting to landscape the house. You see, this house has no basement. Rather strange for this area. All it has is a hole for the furnace and a crawl space. Every time it rains, water flows under the house making the house sink. We leveled the house already but we have brought stone in for the sides to block water and we have 3 yards of dirt getting dropped off next week to build up the front yard as well for the spot where the deck used to be. Then we will re sod it all. We are stuck on ideas for a pathway to the house and to the back gate. We want to do something creative and are looking at all our options. So if anyone has any neat ideas, let us know.
We also painted the house as you can see from this picture. It took alot of convincing for me to paint the door this color. Steve was not so sure. When i started painting the door, it was BRIGHT orange and I started to think he may be right. The color didn't look like the little swatch. But as it dryed, it started to look really nice. The color is actually called rust. You won't be able to miss our house now!
Here is Liam watching daddy work in the front yard. He is walking like crazy, thank goodness!! 
2 comments:
I'm all about the red door. It's amazing what such a small detail can do to a house - I can't believe how much you guys have done. It's looking really good. I just had a meeting for this neighborhood project I'm working on and it just got a whole lot more complicated. It looks like the next week (at least til wed. or thursday) will be spent canvassing houses in our neighborhood, so once that's out of the way I'll get back to the things I enjoy, like seeing friends, and give you a call.
I love the door, too - I think the house looks very cute!
As for a walkway, what about some broken up flat stone pieces placed randomly to form a path - maybe set in mulch or little stones or something. And it's always neat to make a non-straight path - but then you might need to do some landscaping to make it look right... That was just the first idea that came to mind :)
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