Yellow House

We finished the next stage of the house update this weekend. And by we of course I mean Silas. It took about a week, we started last weekend and we painted the house a bright cheery yellow, the doors a dark blue, and white around the trim of the windows and roof. I think it tuned out really nice and most of the neighbors have said they like it. Here are the before and after of the exterior of the house. Sorry for the bad lighting, the sun was in a bad postition and these are the only 2 pictures I can find of the house before we painted it. Its also before we got a new roof and cleaned out the pool.

The Never Ending Projects of a Homeowner

First of all, HAPPY NEW YEAR!! 2008 was an amazing year for Silas and I. One of the most exciting things is that we bought our first house. After the longest search EVER, we found the perfect home (for us anyway). It was a foreclosure, but in really great condition, just needing some MAJOR updating! I had a ton of pictures from before and after we did minor improvements, like painting, but that camera is MIA....so I'm starting over with my new camera. We have a lot of major projects to do, so hopefully you will be reading and seeing the progress. It may take us several years to actually make it through the list of things we want to do, so hope I have some faithful followers :) The first project I'm posting is not really the first project done and is still sort of in the works, but Silas really wants me to post it and then I will backtrack to some early stuff...enjoy!

The Shed...(halfway completed)



This is the old, original shed that was already in our backyard when we bought the house.



The framework for the new shed...



The roof...

Pouring the concrete...

The slab...

The completed picture so far...
To get it to this point we have been working on it for about 4 months now. To complicate things all of our pool equipment needed to be moved and re-plumbed so that it could be located inside the shed...

The clean-up crew...

So, we still need some walls, a door, and maybe a window, but that all takes money :) Hope to be completing this project in the next month or so...