Just In The Nick of Time

The exterior of our house is finished!!! Having the house done before Christmas was a pretty big deal for me. I love Christmas and decorating for Christmas!!  I would have been very sad if I had not been able to put up any lights on my house this year.

Now granted its not near as many lights as I have put up in the past. I like to cover all of the bushes but since they were planted the week before I didn't think that was the best idea.

Two things about this door picture: thanks to some bored neighborhood kids, the bottom right hand corner of lights were out. Apparently is funny to remove a few bulbs from someone else light strand. Also, you can see our old mailbox lying on the ground, which was replaced with a really neat retro mailbox that is polished chrome.

I wanted to show you the step by step process that we went through with the exterior.

This is what the front of the house looked like for a couple of months. We took off the shutters and ripped out the scraggly bushes that were right in front of the house.

We felt like it was so hard to see the house before with all of the trees. So, we had most of them cut down. We really liked the magnolia that was to the left of the house but the trunk was literally inches from the house. We had the foundation checked before we moved in and there was no damage, but it was a risk that we weren't willing to continue to take. 

Then we had the driveway ripped out. It was in extremely bad condition. During that same week they started work on the fence. Which you can see hear before it was finished or painted.



The next step was having the house painted and putting in a sprinkler system. Then the driveway came, followed by the shrubbery, the fence, and gate. The last step was sod and mulch. Unfortunately it rained a descent amount during the weeks this was all going on. When you are doing exterior work rain always causes delays. Ryan came through for me though and had it done for the holidays!

 

I would like to thank Ryan for making our house exactly like I had envisioned inside and out. I have always wanted a house with a red door and I am so excited to see what this house will look like in the spring when the azaleas bloom and the grass is green!!

The colors on the house are all Behr: the front door is Awning Red, the house is Silver Sky, and the shutters are Deep Space.
We had Coates Company here in Memphis do the sprinkler system and landscaping. They do fantastic work.