Outside Updates

We finished painting the shutters, garage window trim and front door this weekend. We also installed new front door hardware...what a cluster:

I also hung the niece and nephew initials in the guest room:

Pretty Well Unpacked

I can't believe it. I believe that we are basically unpacked. We have a few stray boxes that we are sifting through but we are basically finished. We spent our weekend painting soffits, trim and windows and unpacking boxes. Here are some shots!

Outside:

We aren't loving the white shutters so I think we will do a light gray in the same tone as the pink we got for the door. I hung a wreath :)

Inside has come a long way:

Wo' Out

The Parents Steele came down this weekend and we busted our humps! It's finally in the low 80s so it isn't unbearable to be outside. All day Friday the original Steeles beautified our yard:

Before -

After -

You can see the house! There is also A LOT of hedge trimming that went on around the yard and the grassy flower bed now looks like this:

We moved the fountain grass to the left side of the yard. Saturday we worked in the backyard transplanting grass for a border, birds of paradise in 2 corners and we planted a tangerine tree:

We spent most of Saturday afternoon painting trim white and replacing rotted soffits. Today Randy whipped out his new mower and worked on the lawn whie I started painting the soffits. We pooped out around 3pm; Randy went to the gym and I started switching out my summer/winter wardrobe.

Cinder block = Painted

The main body of the exterior is finished being painted. Thank goodness! Next comes white (trim, soffits, shutters). We have some repairs to do to the soffits before tackling that job:

Can't wait to get rid of the Hershey kiss tree. I'd like to do something like this over the garage door eventually (I'm going to paint the window frames white):

This is what the front door looks like now:

I sprayed the numbers/mailbox/doorbell gold to see if I liked it..not so much. I think we will go with a brushed nickel for our light pink (eventually) door:

We also cleared out enough space in the garage for a truck:

Hung a pic in the bathroom:

And finished hanging curtains in the sunroom: