Spring cleaning, and painting

Well our house has been long overdo for some maintenance, so this year we started repairing some rotting siding and repainting the front of the house. We started with our front porch and had to replace (rebuild) the two columns and repair some wood on the covering. The wood work was time consuming but not too bad, but the painting now that is another story. Its a whole lot like work to get paint into all the corners and nooks and crannies, and all the caulk is a little ridiculous. Cameron did most of the wood working and Laura did most of the painting. We thought about changing the color of the house, we have always talked about having the house look like one of those Barbie doll looking beach houses, you know with the pastel color house and white trim, well we would like to have the light sea foam green with white trim. Since we are painting in stages we decided it would be best to just stay with original white for now, but we did change the trim to blue from green. Here are some before and after shots.

Before





and after



this is still a work in progress, there are some boards that still need to be repaired but we have a busy month of June and it will have to wait.