Exterior Update

Before moving to the interior, we needed to give an update on the exterior.

As a reminder, here's the before..

This is the siding going up. Using cedar verses hardy gives a more authentic coastal look.

Once painted you can see variation due to the variation in the cedar. Like a box of fine wine, with age it patinas and only gets better.

This front door turned out amazing with it's side lights and trims. Once all the trims are painted and the wood porch is framed it will really pop.

Curb Appeal

You should never judge a book by it's cover, unless you live in a book that you mortgaged for 30 years. There are many simple ways that you can give a home a "facelift" from trim around windows to porch pop-outs. And remember you can paint just about anything, including brick.

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After:

This was actually an easy remodel. Trim around the windows, porch pop out, new shingle siding on the gables, and paint (no offense white brick). I usually wouldn't recommend painting over brick since you can usually work with it, however, this house needed the color. We also added some can light in the eves and porch. It lights up the house great at night.

Vance's Home
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After:

Their first porch had some issues as you can see. You couldn't even open the screen door all the way cause it would hit the overhang. Plus it was sagging and water damaged. So we cut it off and framed a simple one with thicker timber posts to give it better weight. There is nothing worse than a porch supported by toothpicks, it just looks silly.

This and a new paint job on their vinyl siding that was in fine shape and their house looks like new.