This was the first picture of our house that we saw. I love our house but was never a big fan of the ivy. It looked too cluttered to me. However, you don't pass up an awesome house just because of ivy...right?
After our brutal million degree summer, most all the ivy turned brown along with every other living thing. Brown ivy is even worse that green so we decided it needed to go. When Tom and I got married, he said that his version of hell would be waking up each Saturday morning and having to do a big house project. He's been a good sport because we've had a few too many house projects and he's had a great attitude. I wish I had a picture of our garage because he cleaning the whole thing last weekend. Anyway, when we took the ivy off, we discovered that it left a mark. By "mark" I mean, it covered the entire house in ivy remains. We borrowed a power sprayer from my uncle and went to work. Shoot, that took the paint off but not the ivy.
Finally, we decided that we needed to call in some professionals. We found a great deal on house painters who scraped all the ivy off and repainted our house. I always freak out about making decisions like paint because I don't have "the eye" for that kind of thing. Luckily, I have friends who do. Here's what we ended up with.
Doesn't it look so much cleaner without the ivy. Seriously, never start that stuff on your house. It gets everywhere.
PS Notice that they forgot to paint the chimney. I'm not sure if Tom is ready to scale the roof to make that happen.
This was supposed to show you the color of the door but instead it just shows my wreath. Erica got me hooked on craft blogs and now there's no going back.
"Let us out! Let us out!"
After our brutal million degree summer, most all the ivy turned brown along with every other living thing. Brown ivy is even worse that green so we decided it needed to go. When Tom and I got married, he said that his version of hell would be waking up each Saturday morning and having to do a big house project. He's been a good sport because we've had a few too many house projects and he's had a great attitude. I wish I had a picture of our garage because he cleaning the whole thing last weekend. Anyway, when we took the ivy off, we discovered that it left a mark. By "mark" I mean, it covered the entire house in ivy remains. We borrowed a power sprayer from my uncle and went to work. Shoot, that took the paint off but not the ivy.
Finally, we decided that we needed to call in some professionals. We found a great deal on house painters who scraped all the ivy off and repainted our house. I always freak out about making decisions like paint because I don't have "the eye" for that kind of thing. Luckily, I have friends who do. Here's what we ended up with.
Doesn't it look so much cleaner without the ivy. Seriously, never start that stuff on your house. It gets everywhere.
PS Notice that they forgot to paint the chimney. I'm not sure if Tom is ready to scale the roof to make that happen.
This was supposed to show you the color of the door but instead it just shows my wreath. Erica got me hooked on craft blogs and now there's no going back.
"Let us out! Let us out!"
5 comments:
Wow! The house looks beautiful. Great job you two! Best, Erika
Why would you ever go back? You wouldn't. Look at that cute wreath!!! And I like the house color...that ivy was crazy! And It's like I can do an easter egg hunt with all the pumpkins in your yard. :)
Looks great!
Love it! You picked a great color . . . and it looks tons better!! ANd I love the last picture of the boys in the window! So cute!
I can't wait to see the 'after' since I saw the 'before'
See u in 4 days!!!! Sherry
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