Porch and Other Updates!

We haven't really done anything too major to the house recently.  Just a lot of little odds and ends.  We finally put blinds and a curtain up in our downstairs bathroom!  Woohoo!  It only took us 2 1/2 years - so apologies to any of our neighbors who enjoyed peeping at us in the past.

The dining room built-in is completely done with handles attached.  I just have to concentrate on keeping it clean now!

James finished up some oddball stuff in the kitchen.  We tried some paint samples because the blue isn't working for us.  We thought having a brown in there might do the trick, but after a couple random "browns" on the wall - we have decided that we don't like it.  Since we have almost a full gallon of our green paint from the dining room, we're thinking we'll just go ahead and paint it the same color as the dining room since we love that color so much.  Our motto:  You can never have too much green in a house!

The outside of the house is killing us.  Just because we really have zero idea what to do with it.  We have random bushes and trees all over.  We'll probably just kill them all off.  We did manage to put up our mailbox and house numbers!  Woohoo!

We also threw down a rock walkway for now.  We're not sure what we're going to do with it permanently, but this will do for now (it will probably still be like this 20 years from now knowing us....)

We have thrown down a bunch a grass seed a while ago to get the front yard looking good - but our front yard was always very shaddy due to a neighbor's tree.  But Whoa!  This past Tuesday, our neighbors had their huge, dying tree cut down!  Now we have sun in our front yard all day long!  Now maybe our grass seed will grow with some more dedication to watering it.

We had an electrician come in and throw in the outside light and a bunch of outlets in the porch.  He did this Saturday.  The electrical inspector is suppose to come Thursday or Friday and if we get the okay from him, the electrician can finish up the job.  We think we're just going to go ahead and sheet rock it.  We've been going back and forth about putting up wood walls/dry wall - but dry wall just seems easier.

That is it for now!  Maybe with Tommy's birthday party coming up, we'll get remotivated to do some stuff.  Parties always motivate me to do stuff on the house.  I don't know why.