Reliable Home Remodeling

I just had to get a look at the pictures right next to each other. I’m so excited about the difference

Ok, now isn’t that awesome? I just wish that I’d had my new camera when I took the old pictures, so the crispness and the color would be more uniform. I guess this way it just makes it more like all those weight loss before and after shots. We didn’t put makeup on the house for the before, and we used crummy lighting. And then for the after, we made sure to use plenty of makeup and really good lighting. Ha!

I can’t tell you how much I love these shutters! I think he could actually go into business just selling shutters! They’re gorgeous!

Ok, truth be told, my dear husband had these done long ago! And – I even had the picture taken long ago. This blog has just taken a bit of a back seat to some of my other projects for a while. Don’t ever hire your wife to be your webmaster.

Here are the pics of the finished shutters in the front of the house:

He also made some little ones for my side kitchen window, that I’ll get a picture of soon. And isn’t my dog pretty? He sure makes the picture nice, doesn’t he?

Our house is definitely a work in progress, but, these shutters made so much difference! I’m always surprised when I come up the street and see our house – it’s almost like a different house, just with that one change. The cedar and the red bricks compliment each other just beautifully.

And after 15+ years of watching Mark work his magic on homes, I have every confidence in his making our house the most coveted on the block! Well, we do have a very old house across the street – built in the 1840′s. So if old houses are your game, ours might not be your favorite. And there is a two-story a little ways up that was recently sold, that my hubby and my friends and I were all drooling over. What I am saying, though, is that I actually get butterflies in my stomach – with excitement – when I think of what Mark will do to our house.

And these incredibly gorgeous shutters are just a taste of that.

Mark has made us some fabulous cedar shutters to beautify our outdated 1960′s house. They are so gorgeous that I even got a compliment this morning from the kids’ school bus driver.

Here is the house with the original shutters:

And here are the two opposite-end windows with an old shutter and a new shutter:

And then we got a new camera – awesome! And here is the vibrantly-colored picture of the house midway into the job:

(Please pardon the ‘porch’ – it’s in the middle of renovations, too! And it’s going to be so great, as well!)