I’ve been busy this summer working on a bunch of exterior projects, repairing things and trying to improve our home’s curb appeal. I’m not through yet; the landscaping needs help, but I feel like I’ve made great strides. Since everyone loves a before and after, I thought it’d be fun to collect all the projects […]

  The final project in my porch makeover was giving the railing some love and attention. It’s been missing for several months while we worked on the surface of the porch, but now that all of that’s complete, it was time it went back up. Before From the street, the railing looked white. But up […]

After our crumbling concrete porch was repaired, we had a fully functional porch, but the surface looked unfinished and under construction. The new concrete was a very light gray; the old concrete was a sandy color and had a different texture. I needed to do something. As I researched, I found out concrete stain accentuates […]

The frame around our front door needed re-painting. The old paint was peeling and there were a handful of useless nails hammered into it and painted over. I guess they were probably used by a previous owner to hang Christmas lights. The whole thing was ugly. Before And after refinishing our front door, I thought the […]

We get a lot of magazines and packages, and the small mailbox that came with the house wasn’t going to cut it. As I’ve shared before, we don’t really have much of an overhang on our porch to keep things out of the rain, so a big mailbox is a necessity. So we hung a new mailbox […]