
Back to Our Right Now House
There she is *with our watch dog 😉
I was highly invested in the in our ‘almost house‘. Not just monetarily—emotionally. But when it fell through, I took it as an opportunity to refocus my energies on current house. I do love this house and am still very excited at its potential. I am just reassessing what we do at this point. We know we want to buy a slightly bigger place in the next year, so rather than going gang busters on making this house perfect for us, I am focused on making the changes that will increase its rental value.
The changes I want to make to the exterior are minimal. We where blessed with that gorgeous cedar shingle roof. Our inspector insisted that we negotiate for a new one just based on its appearance. But that is what I loved the most. New cedar roofs are beautiful, but I love the age on ours, all dark and mossy. It is completely solid with no leaks at all… I appreciated our inspectors desire to save us money in the future, but tearing it off now would have been a total waste. Ol’ girl has at least 10 more years in her.
The thing I’m not such a big fan of, the colors. Our hood is extremely strict when it comes to HOA conveniences. We only have a handful of approved exterior colors… all authentic to… you guessed it, colonial williamsburg. So, I’m not real sure how the yellow and green combo made it through the approval process. Â Fortunately our trim is white, and that is the color I want to paint the house. Re-hang the shutters on hinges. (actually, I would love to get rid of the shutters, but that idea got the kibosh early on, both by my husband and the HOA.) At least I can paint them black, and the door will most likely be black too.
See wouldn’t no shutters be nice? I have been jones’n for that look for sometime now, here and here.
I am actually thinking of painting the shutters white… that’s a hard sell, but worth a shot. I just really like the simplicity of it:
I am putting up these copper lanterns on either side of the door:
allen + roth New Vineyard Antique Copper Lantern
And I would love, love, love to do a picket fence in front…. That’s a wish for an us house, not a rental property… but you never know. I may be able to snag a contractor in the middle of the winter that is willing to do it for cheap.
We have started work on the backyard… more to come.
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