A HUGE thank you goes to Cookie and Grumps for all of their help this weekend. They got here extra early on Saturday morning to see Lucy play soccer, and then Cookie took the girls while the three of us attacked the yard.
We started by ripping out a gross wooden ramp on the side of our house. It was fairly big and was the main entrance we used to get into the house. Aside from being ugly, the ramp was actually incredibly slippery when wet. We tore it down with the hopes that the brick walkway that led up to it actually continued underneath the ramp. As it turns out, we were correct:
Note: this would be a great time to have a "before" shot of the ramp. As usual, I am not on top of things.
We are now in need of a couple of stairs to get into the house. As Steve and I have said many times since buying this house, completing one job just creates another.
Another project that we finished early in the week was our family room. You may remember from another post that the room had a great fireplace and built in bookcases but was painted an unfortunate shade of purple with horrific brown window treatments.
So we took everything off of the shelves and painted it a very boring (but much more palatable) shade of beige. We are very pleased with the results.
Overall, we are loving home ownership though it is certainly proving more costly than renting. We have rented some fantastic places, but there is something special about having a place that is truly yours and that you can change to suit your tastes (if, for example, you don't want your walls to be purple).
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