Our Home Miiiight Get Surgery Instead of a Makeover

Picture & Style and design: Boxwood Avenue

Pursuing up on my publish about our household renovation designs (or deficiency-thereof, is far more like it), I required to share a lot more details on how the new styles could possibly have an effect on our home’s exterior. Much more exclusively: the entrance façade.

To be sincere, sharing the recent exterior of our home pains me very a bit. Other than having our 130 year aged brick repainted final 12 months, it is been sorely neglected as we’ve normally had plans to address it and didn’t want to sink a lot into it till we could do it ideal…

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I’ve been in a position to envision the prospective since we acquired this position 6 decades in the past. But landing on the plan to relocate our entrance doorway (read through far more on that here if you skipped it) has not only produced a globe of variation on the inside, but on the exterior as perfectly. And my wheels have been spinning ever considering the fact that. Here is the unedited model of what our dwelling looks like as it stands proper now: 

And right here is a poorly photoshopped rendering that I pulled together the other night just to get some of my visuals down on “paper”. This is my greatest target for this individual residence. Of study course we will do suitable landscaping in that grime patch (loving all of this as landscaping inspo!) but listed here we go:  

Funnily adequate, our exterior has been a little bit of an humiliation for us for some time – a vintage situation of the shoe cobbler’s kids. Experience fed up with our lacklustre curb enchantment, very last summer season we were *this near* to going comprehensive steam forward on some major front landscaping upgrades when our contractor backed out at the previous second for private good reasons. We have been quite bummed out about it at the time, but I know now that the universe is effective in mysterious means. If we experienced gone with our initial ideas and invested in our entrance landscaping (together with a new walkway) we would have had to retain the place of our present front door and hardly ever could have finished up here. Proof at the time again that items transpire for us, not to us. A lesson I have discovered time and time once again. Delighted incidents for the acquire! 

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