Painted House

Since I finally settled my contract at work and got my retroactive raise I thought I would put it to good use.  When I bought the house I am in after the divorce I knew that it needed some TLC, but did not realize how much. My first project was a new roof, I did that the first year I moved in.  Now I am having the doors that were basically rotted out in the back replaced and the house painted on the outside.  Her are a few pictures.

New door in. See all the wood rot above it.

 

Before repairs but doors are in.

This is a picture of the back of the house, Sprocket is peeing on the patio!  Anyhow the wood and siding all around the doors had to be replaced, it became quite a big project.

Repairs completed, new siding installed and you can see above the doors is all repaired too.  Once the house is painted it will look nice.  Here are a few of my first color selections.  I didn’t chose any of these but went with a darker green called Ivy Garden.  The paint should be finished by Monday and I will post some pictures then with an update.

They all turned out to light and too blue for me.

It feels so nice to finally have this all done.  I actually could not use one set of the french doors because they were in such bad shape.  I am alsoslowly working on the backyard.  Its my home now. In a way it is probably good I didn’t or couldn’t stay in the house that my ex and I bought together.  It was beautiful, but initially I didn’t like it but grew to love it. There would have been to many memories and now I have created my own space with my own touches.