Playing Dress-Up

We’ve done a substantial amount of work to the inside of our house, but unfortunately over the past (almost) 5 years that we’ve been in this house we’ve neglected the poor outside.  We did upgrade the paint job, but other than that we’ve let nature take its course..literally…blackberries completely overtook the backyard, in fact, if you only saw the backyard you would have thought that the house had been vacant for twenty years…This summer we’ve been putting a lot of work into the outside of the house. More posts will come, but we rebuilt the backyard fence, pulled out all of the blackberry bushes, created a little patio off the side of the driveway (okay, really more of a parking spot for the bbq), and laid down some bark. 

The outside is definitely coming together, and is leaps and bounds better looking than it was 4 months again, but really still needs some help. 

Here it is now…well almost now – a couple weekends ago we replaced the window on the left, but I’ll post about that later.

I’ve been playing a little photoshop dress-up tonight.

Cedar shingles on the upper front triangle of the house

Re-roofing (our current roof is nearing the end of its life) in a darker shade

and now for the chimney…stucco

or maybe some faux river rock…ooo…pretty….

I’m not sure we’re digging the cedar shingles, but I do think the front face of the house needs something to add a little personality…any ideas?