Did You Know?

Did you know that we had the outside of our house painted in August? That was almost 6 months ago and we never posted pictures! The main reason for that is we needed a new garage door. Ours was cracked in the middle and instead of painting over the old one that made horrible noises when we opened it, we decided to get it fixed, or replaced. Our painter said he thought he knew someone who could fix it, but that didn't work out. Then he said he knew someone who could replace it for a good deal. So we went with that. Supposedly, that particular garage door repairman was too busy, so he referred us to another. Well, I guess garage door repairmen are busy around here because about 1 1/2 months later, or more (I can't even remember now!), our garage door was replaced. We were supposed to get it painted the same color as the shutters (navy blue), which our painter said he would do at no extra cost. We called him about 2 1/2 months later when we decided we still wanted to go that route instead of leaving it white, but it never happened.

Here's our new house color, 3 months after being painted, right before I had Erik. I love the colors we chose and even like the white garage door, now that the leaves are gone and we can really see the blue and navy blue shutters. When the leaves come come back, though, we'll mostly see our big, white garage, so we might have to get on that painter again. Here's the back. They also painted the deck, no extra charge.

Here it was before. See how much the tree covers? I'm afraid we'll just have a big white garage showing and no beautiful navy blue. We'll see...

Here's the back before. The summer flowers look nice!