Again with the house

I know, I know. Who cares what home improvements we're embarking on now? I do. So you all have to sit through it and compliment me at the end on what a good job we're doing :)

We started painting the exterior of our house. It turned into being a much bigger job than I had imagined...like Trevor told me. Don't tell him he's right though :) But we finally finished it and I'm so proud. I got to help on this project again--hence, the proudness.

Here are a few pictures:


This is a picture of when the house was all powerwashed. It looks HORRIBLE. Don't worry, that's not what it looked like before the washing--but the paint was REALLY peeling and so we wanted to powerwash, sand and scrape, etc. Then prime (the white that's done in this picture.



Here's an after picture of our painting job. I know--it's pretty much the same color. But I'm so original I figured it would be easier to cover if we went with the same color, but nothing too dark so we didn't have to use two coats. We may as well have, because we had to prime the whole house anyway. Oh, and Trevor doesn't think the trim is dark enough or that there is enough contrast. But I'm not about to redo it.



Trevor took this picture because he got a bunch of slack from the neighbors for letting me climb up on the scaffolding when I was 8 months pregnant. Bunch of whiners. Plus, Trevor had no say in it. In his defense, he tole me I shouldn't be up there--but what's he going to do about it when he's at work? Don't worry, I was REALLY careful and it was REALLY stable scaffolding. Trevor's friend from work had his dad drive it to us from Tulsa. It's like 4 hours from here! We don't even know his dad, just drove it down for us. There are some nice people in this world.