Before and After New Exterior House Paint Makeover
Seven years ago my husband and I bought our home from my great aunt. My uncle had passed away 2 years earlier and she needed the money to survive. Once we bought the house from her…we rented it to her very cheaply so that she could still live in it. About 3 years after that, we had to make the decision to put her into a nursing home due to her declining health. Sad to say, she passed away last spring.
My aunt and uncle had bought the house back in 1972 and had lived in it ever since. Over those years they never really updated it or modernized it. At the time we bought it…we weren’t sure if we would live in it or sell it once she passed. Long story short, we decided to keep it and moved into it almost 3 years ago.
One of the reasons we decided to move into it is because it’s like a second home to me. I spent a LOT of time at the house when I was a child growing up. They helped my single mother raise me and my brother. I guess you could say…it was my second family home.
Before we moved into the home we gutted 70% of it. We added a new master bathroom, a family room, laundry room, remodeled 2 of the 3 bedrooms and updated the kitchen and dining rooms. We are still working on the living room, craft/sewing room, man cave and game room. We are also going to add-on a third full bathroom.
Late last summer we decided it was time to update the exterior house paint. The house had it’s original white & dingy paint on it that looked absolutely terrible! We also bought new window shutters, refinished both front porch surfaces (they were cracked & falling a part), updated some more of the landscaping, etc.
One of the big projects that we did was add a nice white porch railing to the bigger front porch. That new railing cost us $585.00 and took us 3 days to install. Oh my gosh…a lot bigger job than what it looks. We are going to do the smaller front porch in late Spring 2016.
Then we tackled the new exterior house paint. I decorate in a coastal and beach style and decided to go with Sherwin Williams ~ Stormy. It’s a beautiful coastal color that at times looks gray and at other times blue/gray depending on how the sun hits it.
So far…we gave it a new paint job, replaced 2 front doors (yes, we have two doors), replaced all exterior porch & entrance way lighting, fixed the cracked cement on the porches, added a nice porch-deck railing to one porch, painted the window shutters, repainted the front porch columns and updated to matching door mats along with some other smaller things.
As you can see…WOW…what a difference that made! The house now looks like it belong’s in this decade & century! ha! Come late spring & early summer the new windows will go in, a new back deck and our new swimming pool. Yay!
Anyway…just wanted to share some before and after home improvement photos with you. Are you currently working on any home improvement projects? If so, tell me about them!
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