Before and After pics

[happyscooter]

lonewolf, I saw you yesterday in your truck when you rode by. 

goldenrulegirl, we just finished so I don't know about the tax assessment.

malarkey, yes if we had paid someone to do it, you guys would have told me how much I could have saved by DIYing, and how much it would have been worth in 10 years if we had invested it at 11%.  Compounded daily.  LOL!!!

[zibazinski]

  True!

[Formerly SK]

We're getting new siding done this month.  We got six quotes and they were all between 20-23K.  I want to vomit over it, but there's NO WAY I'd do it myself.  DH can't even hang a level shelf so I'm not letting him near the job.

Maybe I'll post before/after pics too.  It might make me feel better about spending so much freaking money. 

[happyscooter]

Formerly, where are you?  We can travel.  And bring our ladders.  And I don't drink so you only have to buy beer for my DH. 

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

It looks great.
I prefer craftsman style, which is our current house also.
I did notice the window you removed. Was it in a bathroom or closet and you just didn't like it?

[happyscooter]

It is in a closet.  If the house was built now, the ceiling in the foyer would open up to a grand entrance.  Instead it is in a closet (walk-in in the MB/2 closets) upstairs.  We liked it, we just decided to cover it instead of fitting siding around it.  And the sun beat in it during the afternoon and had faded a few pieces of clothing.  You can still see it from inside the closet. 

The S is from my in-laws house. 

[motherto2]

What an amazing transformation!  kudos to you guys doing it yourself.  I love the craftsman style also.  My retirement home that I wish I could afford to buy right now has a little craftsman flair.  Luckily for me, it's one style of several to chose from in the neighborhood where I want to live, so I figure at least one will be for sale in another four years.

I had noticed the half window was missing.  I wondered if you covered over or took it out. I had to climb out on one of the sections of my roof on Labor day to get to some mold that had been growing (doesn't get much sunlight if any) and that was scary.  Had to climb out of one of DD's windows and scoot across and over a hump to another section of roof.  I thought bare feet would give me good traction.  Well, not when they are sweating because your scared crapless!  I couldn't imagine getting on scaffolding to replace siding. 

[happyscooter]

We rented one of those bucket machines for the high places, no scaffolding. 

We also replaced the windows with full screen windows.  You cannot open or take off the screens.  (We had the old windows where the inside was wood, then a separate metal window with 2 sections and a 1/2 screen.)  We cannot use our Christmas decorations because we used to open the windows, slide the screen up and go out onto the top of the porch.  No way to hang them without getting a ladder. 

And I had just bought new bows for our wreaths.  And new bows for the swags.  Used them 1 year.  16 of them. 

[toomuchreality]

It looks wonderful!  Very good job!

(You know I will be forced to stalk you now, don't you?! )
-Just kidding! 



It really is great though.    -I need to go back and look at it again.

[mmhmm]

Your house is gorgeous!  You guys should be very, very proud!  Great job! 

[happyscooter]

We gave away some of the old windows last week on Craigslist.  Most of the people plug in the address into their GPS.  This person got the directions off of Google.  And it brought up the old picture.  She pulled up to the house (I was outside) and said 'do you have some windows to give away?'  I told her 'yes' and she said 'your house looks SO good.  It looks so different from the Google picture'. 

So I figured you guys would be googling me or earthcam or something and show up at my house when we were grilling steaks.