BACKYARD ANTICS
Took some time off to begin shaping up the ole backyard.. too many trips to home depot and 7 tons of stone later feels like were off to a decent start this summer.. Next on the list be fillin’ in the cubes with some ground cover and fern thingys..
2012 PROGRESS
Felt like taking a few pics of some progress we made through 2011 to 2012.. seems like we’ve come quite a ways at this point, but there’s still a long list of projects which await us.. I guess just keep planning/saving at this point..
MORE PAINTIN’
Again we’ve found ourselves brush in hand.. After some shifting around between dining room and living room we found a new setup that excites us.. Found 2 sofas from the ole Target for a decent price and want to revamp our fireplace to start using again soon. To accompany our new endeavor we removed ugly bead board and replaced with drywall, followed by some fresh paint..
BLINDS AT LAST
The time came to pull the trigger on getting blinds.. with lots of windows and no shades it felt like being in a glass box during the night, alas we got some privacy! Ordered a zillion samples and did some heavy price comparisons till we found our match.. They went up super easy and were really happy on how they turned out.. Meanwhile made an ikea trip and came back with a few rugs and random trinkets, always fun.. finally snow too!
Merry Christmas!
Snagged an aluminum tree by Modern Coatings Chicago off ebay, made in 59.. stoked..
RIVER ROCK DELIVERY
While in outdoor mode, we’ve moved on to completing construction and staining our porch railing. To accompany our railing and newly purchased grasses we ordered 8 tons of river rock from Mr. Mulch. They were by far the most reasonably priced in the central ohio area! Needless to say, i was pretty much dead after spreading it all, but our efforts were worth the outcome..
PORCH RAILING
Finally got to our porch railing.. was an eyesore for quite a while.. We wanted to mimic our address plaque, landscape curbing, and fence forms with a horizontal emphasis.. The railing style we wanted allowed us to encase the pre-existing wrought iron railing rather than remove it. In the meantime our Scotch pine tree died. We had been careful not to overwater or underwater but have had not luck with pine trees thus far.. Oakland nursery was super cool about refunding us for the tree though..
ADDRESS PLAQUE
Next on the list was to create an address plaque.. Messed with some designs for it and settled on this one. Will match with front porch railing and landscape curbing when complete.. Got some brushed aluminum Neutra house numbers off of the interwebs.. psyched on the turnout..
ROLLIN’ PAINT
So i was able to take a week of work,.. to do work… None the less was super productive.. To start I cleared out our local home depot’s stucco paint, all 24 gallons.. Had to wrestle with the weather some, business as usual in Ohio climate.. Rolled and brushed it all on, took about 3 days to finish but was worth the sweat. Painted the front doors a burnt orange and called it a day.. Visually a huge difference!..
PLANTIN’/FIXIN’
So following completion of house painting, had trees delivered thus requiring planting holes.. July never seemed hotter.. During the painting process I noticed a water damage issue on one of our eaves.. Turned our it was due to some ant damage that had been treated before apparently but never solved. Destroyed every trace of the ants and replaced damaged goods to the eaves.. count it..
