We've only lived in this house for 8-1/2 years. Why should we think we'd be done renovating it? Our goal was to be done when the kids were born, but really it meant it just got pushed even longer.
As a matter of fact, we did a lot of work on this house so far this year (to make up for the lack of work the last 2 years). We:
- bought & installed a new hot water heater & air conditioner (bot very high efficiency). Now the "guts" of the house have been all updated
- grassed up part of our front landscape (see it on my garden blog)
- planted the entire backyard per our garden plan (also on the garden blog)
- built a new fence along the side of our house and attached it to the house with a new garden gate.
Our latest endeavor was getting a new front door! At the beginning of the year,
I posted a few door options we liked. We ended up getting the last option - a Simpson wood door with 1/4 glass and 2 panels stained in dark walnut.
Here's how it looks from the inside:
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Outside, in addition to the door we had a new front stoop laid. The prior stoop was the original concrete that had brick pavers glued to it. The problem with the stoop was that the paver walkway was too low thus creating a 10" rise onto the stoop, in addition to pavers becoming loose and it being so small that you could fall off the stoop when you opened the door (oh and chipmunks living underneath). So we scrapped the pavers and made the stoop just concrete and larger - 4x8. (We'll tackle the walkway in 2014).
1 comment:
Your new door looks great! I see you got rid of the storm. We are thinking of a new door and no storm for one of our exteriors too. You'll have to let me know what you think of it after winter.
Love the new stoop too. So spacious!
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