Small Projects

Over the past couple of months, we have been blessed to have some really nice days and it has given me the opportunity to update and  clean up a couple projects.


Garage Door:

I didn't really want to buy new garage doors and I knew that I wanted to do something different with them. I had considered painting them, but then I read about putting a gel stain on them and the polyurethane on it afterwards to protect it. I decided to try it out and I loved it, but I got side tracked and polyurethaned one door twice and not the other. Within a month the gel stain was peeling on the side that I forgot. I will someday have to redo that side, but other than that- I love how it turned out.

I love how they turned out

Kitchen Tile:

Some day I may change it, but there is only so much you can do at a time and the kitchen tile was in pretty good shape. I decided to leave it (you will see the completed kitchen in a couple months), but the grout was bothering me. I tried all different kinds of grout cleaner and I just wasn't happy. I finally read about a grout pen. I decided to go with black. I probably should have picked brown, but I didn't really know what the original grout color was. For now, I like it and will leave it this way...

Front Door, Back Door and Shutters:

the shutters and front door looked dull and the house just looked boring. I decided for now I was going to paint them to add a little color to it.

before- you can see that everything just looks around the same color

I debated what to color the door, but this house really needed some pop and I love this color.

the porch swing was brown and falling apart. Eventually we will get a new porch swing, but for now the white paint makes it look better.

I decided to paint the back door the same color as the front shutters. Eventually this whole deck and door will be redone, but for now I like the little pop of color.

Front Garden:
It is so hard to not want to do everything at once when this place has so much potential, but the other day I realized that I may not be able to change much of the back this year because of all the planning and tree removing we may need to do. I decided that I will just spruce up what was already established. There were some old crooked stones in the front. I removed them and then added different bricks. I only added a few flowers (the daffodils were already there) and then a yellow rose bush. Hopefully by the end of the summer this garden will have beautiful established plants.

More pictures coming soon!