sounds like a good idea .. its all looking Great
Building a Home part2
It's really looking good! I think a lot of modern paints have some strange optical qualities. Our house can be either blue or grey depending on the light conditions, and the rental house I recently repainted alternates between almost white and medium grey.
I think it's looking wonderful!
I think when your homestead is all finished, you could write a book and include all the pictures. It would definitely sell!
I am amazed that you guys have done all that yourselves. I wouldn't know where to start. You should be very proud of yourselves. It all looks great.
Thank you for all the compliments. I am hoping that when I get the Pine Forest shutters up that the house color will look more green more often.
I worked on the shutters alllllllllll dayyyyyyyy long.
It took me all day - literally 8 hours to sand 4 sets of shutters and paint them with wood primer. 5 more sets to go. I had to replace one of the kitchen shutter boards cause it had a crack down the middle of the board and some pine tree tips were loose. It was very time consuming trying to get the primer down in the cracks of the pine tree crevices and then trying to get the paint to sink into the cut wood of the pine trees. Rolling my eyes. I kept telling myself it will be worth it once it is done and I pushed myself all day. Then at the end of the day I had to go water all the plants in the greenhouse. Then the grandkids came over for a long visit. Then somebody came over to pay rent. then then then.=
passing out.
LOL sounds like a good day then, idle hands are the devils workshop they say ... keep busy, stay on track an forever young.......
Shutters.
Nite pics
shutters.
Fantastic job. I commend you on all you've done.
All your hard work paid off. Those came out great!
I love it! That's what I'd call making a house a home. Very nice Crickett!
Thank you.
I spent some long back aching hours on those 4 sets of shutters and I really dread the other 5 sets. But I will be taking my time. I was excited and anxious to get some on the house. It wasn't hard,,,,,,,,but it was very time consuming and lots of bending over. I spent so much time on those shutters that I lost track of days.....
6 days? Plus I had to work in the greenhouse and tend to customers too.
You must be in good shape to do all that! I wish I had half of your energy.
Now all you need is a little red and you're good for the holidays!! I really love the color choices.
Janet
LOL.
several of us around here were joking about the Christmas Theme also.
we all had a different idea for each holiday through out the year.
Make wood plaques of Easter Eggs, Turkey, Pumpkin to hang in front of the pine tree during each holiday.
Pine trees are popular around here. It just looks woodys to me. I been watching 5 pine trees grow since I moved here. They were little tiny saplings 6 years ago. They get prettier each year. I thought about putting some fertilizer spikes around them to give them a little boost.
I put some fertilizer spikes around the scuppernong vines 5 years ago cause the leaves were pale green. They are still dark green after 4 years===this will be the 5th season.
My energy and shape= gosh= The arthritis slows me down. I have to take vitamins and extra B vit every day. By the end of the day , I am slow and sluggish and I better not sit down before I cook and wash dishes or neither one will get done.
I spent most of my day watering and fertilizing plants and tilling the garden once again.
I love scuppernongs. My Momma makes the best jelly from them.
Ummm what are scuppernongs?
Sucppernongs are large green muskadine that ripens to light bronze color= southern seedy grapes.
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Here is a daylight picture of the house.
And we took down the old hand rails that were on the deck cause hubby wants to do them differently and the future deck will actually wrap around the house from the office door around to the back door. (half the house)
I kinda like the deck without rails on the front ....... undecided.
I'd vote for no railing on the front deck too. I like that with your raised flower bed across the front. Very nice!
You have done a remarkable job!!!!! I am in total awe!
It all looks so adorable! (Do I keep saying that?!). I love how the deck will wrap around. And some railing can be so cute too! I love the look of a house with a white picket fence in the front too. Homes in New Orleans have lots of wrought iron railing, gingerbread, cute fencing... So go for it! Can't wait to see what y'all come up with.
I like the deck with no railing. Feels open and large rather than closed in and small. I LOVE that planter in front of the deck!!
Thank you Thank you.
The funny part is= the back of the house isn't painted yet. It just has a facial. We are working on the back.
Sure thing Taynors. As soon as I get through with this one. Note=, you might be retired by then.
Those planter beds are concrete blocks stacked on top of each other. They don't even have morter between them. Then I put cap blocks on top to cover the holes. And the steps are concrete blocks too and the only thing that held them together was exterior liquid nail and they have to be repaired cause we had to knock off the upper step level to make it level with the deck. They have stepping stones liquid nailed on top of them to cover the holes. A few folks laughed at me when i used liquid nail but It has held for 3 years now. I thought I was crazy too. It was suppose to be a temporary fix that turned permanent.
I would like to paint the concrete planter boxes. Not sure what color yet.
It looks like the outside of the planters are plastered.
when we bought this land we were told that there was an old well system that fed to the house that had burned down a few years before we bought the property. The people who owned the land took the well house down and covered the well pipping system that ran 170 feet deep. No body could locate the well cause they had forgotten. One day the kids were digging into a dirt bank out back near the garden and I told them if they dug into the bank deep enough they might be able to make a shelter club house. Instead of digging into the bank they went up hill and started digging down into the ground and accidently found the old well pipping.
We found a Well Digging company that will come out and inspect our findings and to figure out if it is worth putting a pumping system back in to the pipe housing that is there. But it's gonna cost me $100 to find out. If the housing pipes can still be used then that will save us $3000 and will have to pay out $1000 estimated to get the well working again.
Crossing my fingers.
Wow, that sounds like a good deal if it's salvageable!
Crossing fingers and toes for you!!
Sure hope that works out for you.
The well digger never showed up and he won't answer the phone.
This is what you call forceful education.
slowly painting the back side of the house.
I have to tend to all the chores and responsibilities early in the day
and paint in the evening if I feel like it on sunny days.
Here is a bummer. Even though the mobile home burned down, it was on the mortgage loan and we did pay $50,000 on the mortgage when the home burned and even though it is not here, the mortgage company is making us pay insurance according to the value of the mobile home by company rules or they will take what we have......I cannot get insurance outside the mortgage company on the home we are building until it is completed. Then I can prove i have my own insurance and the mortgage company will stop charging me. Which will be sometime next year.
Bummer, Cricket.
Sue put a small down payment on a house today. Not much land & a real "fixer up"
She lost a friend two weeks ago that she had known since grade school. After the services I think she tried to make an arraignment with her sister to take care of me should she go first. Don't know how that worked out.
She wanted a place we could call home, with no mortgage, for when we need a place.
Gotta love her.
sounds like a plan.
Dyson, you should be able to fix-up almost anything!
Having your own place will be a big shot in the arm. She's the best. I'm sure you guys will turn it into a home in no time. We gotta have pics!! Congrats!!
I have been through a few fixer uppers in my life time. Enjoyed every moment. congrats. Maybe you could show some pictures one day.
I had posted a picture awhile back of a bathroom sink and base cabinet that we got from someone for free........kinda sorta....hubby was working on the bathroom for someone else. Anyway. He finally ran the plumbing to it but the faucet was bad. Tried to replace a few things and it still didn't work. Then we noticed the sink bowl had a crack. We replaced the bowl (free) and bought a new faucet. We now have a "working" bathroom sink.
