I’ve just discovered this photo carousel link that WordPress offers, and it’s pretty cool. This one includes pictures of my home renovations: new garage doors, new windows and siding.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
One of the big problems I need fixed with all the renovations happening at my house, is the water leak at the front steps. At the top of the ugly cement steps there is a gap (and probably rotting wood) where water seeps into my basement unless I cover the steps with plastic every time it rains. I can’t imagine what my neighbors think as they see me out there with a sheet of plastic. It looks terribly tacky as you can imagine, but it keeps the water out.
Now that the guys have begun work around the steps, they told me that there was no way to move the steps because they go down into the ground at least 2 feet! That’s right, they are not just sitting there on the ground, they are deeply buried. In fact the guys think that the steps were poured on the spot and a big hole was dug to get below the frost line so the steps wouldn’t be moved by the freezing ground.
So that’s great. The ugly cement steps are permanent! At least they are able to get in behind them and hopefully keep water out of my basement.
See what happened back on Day One of renovations.
New England's Narrow Road 