Our Home Miiiight Get Surgery Instead of a Makeover

Image & Structure: Boxwood Avenue

Pursuing up on my put up about our property renovation options (or lack-thereof, is much more like it), I preferred to share additional details on how the new designs may possibly affect our home’s exterior. Additional specifically: the front façade.

To be straightforward, sharing the current exterior of our home pains me quite a bit. Other than having our 130 year previous brick repainted last calendar year, it’s been sorely neglected as we have always experienced plans to handle it and did not want to sink considerably into it right until we could do it ideal…

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I have been ready to envision the probable because we purchased this spot six yrs ago. But landing on the plan to relocate our front doorway (go through extra on that below if you skipped it) has not only built a environment of variance on the interior, but on the exterior as effectively. And my wheels have been spinning ever since. Here is the unedited version of what our household appears to be like like as it stands proper now: 

And in this article is a improperly photoshopped rendering that I pulled collectively the other evening just to get some of my visuals down on “paper”. This is my best purpose for this individual household. Of study course we will do proper landscaping in that dirt patch (loving all of this as landscaping inspo!) but listed here we go:  

Funnily ample, our exterior has been a bit of an embarrassment for us for some time – a traditional situation of the shoe cobbler’s youngsters. Emotion fed up with our lacklustre control attraction, last summer season we were *this shut* to likely total steam ahead on some main front landscaping updates when our contractor backed out at the past second for personalized factors. We ended up rather bummed out about it at the time, but I comprehend now that the universe functions in mysterious means. If we experienced gone with our initial programs and invested in our entrance landscaping (including a new walkway) we would have had to hold the place of our present front door and under no circumstances could have finished up below. Evidence as soon as once again that matters materialize for us, not to us. A lesson I’ve learned time and time once more. Delighted incidents for the win! 

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