house – New England's Narrow Road

My new yellow house fixer-upper — My new house, as it looked before I moved in.

I haven’t been good at keeping photos coming of my new home makeover, but here is the final picture (below) and you can see the changes that have been made to the foreclosure I bought this past summer.

The old, dark yellow clapboard was rotted and gross – as you can see in the photo above that was taken in May this year. Since I couldn’t afford to have the entire back of the house sided just yet, I opted to keep the yellow color but chose a lighter shade for the new siding. The left side wall had never been painted to match the rest of the house, so now it does match.

Instead of adding green shutters (the old ones were crumbling), I chose neutral white, which may look a bit dull in comparison, but will, in the end, look nice once I have the gardens planted along the front. I’m trying to look at the big picture and I know it will take years to accomplish, but for now I know that my house won’t rot away beneath me.

As you can see, our 2 feet of snow has pretty much melted away! Yay…

The new siding job – removing the old from the front and both sides – and replacing the front door and 4 windows in the front, took 2 weeks. The guys lost one day to power outages and the freak snow storm, but they were here rain or shine otherwise and I am completely happy with their work. I would recommend “Branchas Siding” (now called ProVision Exteriors), to anyone.

after house renovations completed — The “after” photo of my home renovations.

My House Make-Over: Off With The Old Clapboards (newenglandsnarrowroad.wordpress.com)
My First Look at The New Siding! (newenglandsnarrowroad.wordpress.com)

My house renovations are moving along and Brandon has been busy putting up the new siding. I chose light yellow to match the old color of the house because I can’t afford to have the back of the house done right now. Because I have a cape, which is two-story, the back of the house is the largest area to renovate. (I finally sided the back in 2016, just before I moved out.)

My Old Post Below About the Siding

Because WordPress has changed over to a new editor, my old post is a bit of a mess. I can’t seem to arrange the photos as I’d like, but I’ve kept the original story as I wrote it.

new yellow siding on garage — First View of The New Siding

I had my first look at the yellow siding I had ordered when the guys got it added to the side wall of the garage.
I’d been sitting inside at my desk working while all the hammering and pounding was going on outside and I really didn’t know what the siding guys were up to. Then I went out to get my mail and they said I could get a look at it. The side of the garage was done and wow, was it wonderful!

You can see the old look below with the big white splotch where a dilapidated shed had been and someone just painted the house yellow around it.

garage wall to be repaired — The Garage Before the Fix

The back of the house is not being sided at this time because I can’t afford it, but both ends of the house and the front will be this light yellow color with white trim and shutters.

Read how I began my own business and saved up to buy this home at my page: My Zazzle Success Story.