Front and back

Well, for the most part, the remodel is complete.  I still have painting inside being done and I'll show that fairly soon.  In the meantime, here are shots of the completed job.

 Here is a shot of the front of the house.  Garage is now a sun lit studio with french doors and a nice new driveway.  At the left of the shot, you can see the white fence that I had them add to have a place to hide my trash can.  Nice touch if I do say so myself.

 Want to see what it looked like when we bought it in 2002?  Check this out...

 
 Now here we see the back...

My painter, took one of the vinyl rails to the paint store and had them match the paint for the foundation.  I couldn't get the perfect shot, but it really does match.  Ahhh, modern technology.  You know that I also have a before picture from 2002...

Can you even believe this is the same house?  A lot can change in ten plus years, right? 

Well, that's it for me today.  Enjoy your week and soon I'm sure I'll be back to posting pictures of art and other crafty things.  Who knows what I'll be getting into?  We'll see.

Let's clean the house today

I am easily amused.  I want to do some house cleaning today, but I want to look good doing it.  Who knows who might see me carrying trash outside, or maybe that cute UPS guy may make a delivery.  Perhaps I was just bored, but this is how I dressed to clean house today...

I don't know why I'm like this.  I always have been.  I have been draping myself in beads, lace and sequins for most of my life.  Shucks, if someone would send me a tiara, I would wear it while I clean.

Seriously, folks, that's it for me today.  A selfie, taken in the bathroom of a sassy, short haired chick getting ready to clean her house.

You just never know....do you?

You saw the before...

Well, you saw the before, now you get to see the after...

So, there you go.  I decided to go with high end cast aluminum furniture and found exactly what I wanted at the National Pool showroom here in town.

I'll let you know later how much I really like it, but for now this will suffice.

Day Bed...what's your thought?

The very last thing that had to be done on my new and improved back porch, was to install a ceiling fan and electrical outlets.  Here you see the finished "room"...

I really want this to be an outdoor room and obviously two folding chairs and a card table just doesn't do it justice. This is a large space, at 16 x 20, I certainly have room for just about anything I want.  My builder has given me the go ahead as far as weight capacity goes and I'm thinking in addition to traditional table and chairs I may purchase an outdoor day bed...

Part of me loves this bad boy,

but it really just doesn't fit the design of a country back porch.  I suppose in reality, I'm going to get something more like this...

or this...

This is new to me, obviously, so any ideas you have would be appreciated.  It doesn't have to be a day bed, but I really would like to be able to take a nap or even sleep overnight on the porch.  How does one go about this?

If you know of any good websites for outdoor furniture, I'm up for ideas.  Maybe I should hit Pinterest for some ideas, as just randomly surfing the web can be a bit frustrating and in our area, outdoor furniture is something that has to be ordered, because it's usually not a year round item.

The sales associate, a really sweet chick, at Grand Home Interiors told me to try the local National Pool store, so I may do that this weekend. 

Whatever I decide on doing, I'll keep you posted, but keep those ideas coming.

Throwback Thursday...

Fairly often I post old pictures on Facebook for Throwback Thursday.  It just occurred to me that lots of you don't get to see these, so feast your eyes on this...

This was probably around '94 or '95.  Dig those crazy specs, right?