Our New Home ~ The Outside Before

We have lived in our home for two months now, and many have asked to see pictures of our house. So, the next few posts will be of our new house "before" pictures. These pictures were taken on the day we purchased our house, last year. Although our home is already looking much better, it will be a while before we will have "after" pictures to show. Most of our work, so far, has been focused on cleanup. As I mentioned when we moved, we purchased a foreclosed home and it is in need of a lot of work. We, first, had to fix the plumbing and make it livable before our permanent arrival. Currently, we are having a new furnace, central air, new duct work, and everything else that goes along with the installation completed. (We are not doing the heating/cooling ourselves.) We were afraid to use the old furnace and we have no air. So, this will help make our new home much more comfortable! I will be posting our rock garden and side porch soon, though!

 

 

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Cleaning Up The Left Side Yard

Welcome to Maintenance Monday! We hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! This weekend, we had a garage sale, attended Chris' company picnic, started putting together our wooden playset, and put the finishing touches on our retaining wall for the rock garden. It's hard to believe that most of the major outside cleanup is almost done. We, of course, still have a lot of clean up to do on the outside. But, at least, the major obstacles are out of the way! We have worked our way around our house starting with cutting down dead trees in our backyard (Our Tree Cutting Adventure). Next, we cut and dug up bushes on the right side of our yard (Cutting Down The Bushes) and (Cleaning Up The Bushes). Then, we cleared and cleaned up the bushes in our front yard (Cleaning Up The Front Yard). And, now, we have finally made it to the left side of our yard!

This is how the left side looked the day we purchased our house.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is how we left it, last fall.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yep, quite the mess!

 

 

 

But then, our helpers got to work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And this is how the left side looked

when we finished.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What a difference a little cleanup has made to the outside of our home.

Now, we are able to start with a, fairly, clean slate for landscaping.

 

 

Can't wait to show you our rock garden and side porch!

 

 

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Cleaning Up The Front Yard

Welcome to Maintenance Monday! We've moved onto the front yard cleanup. It seems to have been a really long month with all of the clean up going on around here. (You may like to catch up on our backyard Tree Cutting Adventure here.) (And, our right side yard Cutting Down The Bushes and Cleaning Up The Bushes). Almost ready for the fun stuff! Next week, I will post our left side yard which will lead us into our rock garden and side porch. YAY!

This is the published realtor picture before we purchased our house.


 



 

 

 

And this is how our house looked on the day we closed, last summer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last fall, we started cleaning up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This past spring, Chris was able to dig and cut out the front yard bushes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And this is how our house looks today.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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