Paint paint PAINT!!

We painted all of the inside of our house as soon as we moved in. The outside needed paint to, but after all the inside painting, we had NO desire to start another paint project. We would save it for next summer. Oh how I wish we had just done it ;o) We spent a good month looking at paint samples and ordering some online. FAIL!! The colors were way different than we had thought (not surprised) but disappointed. So we just picked one from the lumber store here. We are happy with it. I took a nice close up of how bad some spots were. Yuck. My mom and i scraped and sanded peeled and caulked. Wow, a few days of prep, and we were ready to paint. (we weren't really ready but the house was;o)

As I started to paint I was so happy that the nasty white and blue were finally disappearing. I was so excited that the paint was covering so well. I was worried for a while we would have to replace the siding :(

After I finished this part of the house i just sat on the lawn and looked at the house ignoring the fact that we had so much more to do. I just pretended that it was done :o) I started to think it still needed something. I decided to build some shutters. Matt and I were a little worried at first but I am so glad that I did, because I think it looks much better!

Here is the after with the shutters. So much better.

Here is a before shot of the front. Man, I am not a big fan of the white and blue.

And yet another shot

And here is out after!! I am so happy. One of our friends came to drop something off and drove right by. We aren't done with the front yet, we are going to paint the front door black and put a planter under the big bay window to bring some of the black over there. I'm also making an address sign.

It was a lot of work!!! Matt and I both got sick (way to much sun) I had to get up on the roof because the plan was to paint the front of the house to surprise Matt while he was away at scout camp. It's not the height of the roof that scares me its standing on the top step of the ladder and jumping up I hate. Thank heavens we found a better spot to get up there. Noah even came up with me :O)

Still more to do, barf, but at least the front of our house looks better. We were pretty tired after this, we had no idea how hard the next project would be :o)

I'll post about our floors soon!!