Home Exterior Project

Working on home interiors is my passion, however, I recently had the opportunity to try my hand at a home exterior.  My personal home exterior actually! 

About a year ago we moved into this lovely home in a great neighborhood. The inside is perfect, it's been updated to meet our needs but retains the character of an older home. The yard is also nice, it's rather large and has great potential. Unfortunately, the home exterior needed a lot of TLC. The old aluminum siding was very worn and even dented and missing in a few areas, while the front overhang seemed to really date the house. Finally, we were not fans of the green shutters and green front door. We were looking for striking colors to give it more interest. We knew we could do better!

Here is a snapshot of the house before we started the update. Sorry for the poor quality, I literally snapped this just before they started the removal!

What sparked this exterior change is our need for a new roof. We began by selecting a darker charcoal shingle. Siding was needed so I selected a soft grey and during the re-siding, we made the choice to remove the front overhang. I have to admit that I was a little nervous about this part. Finally, we had the shutters and doors painted a bold black color. The black contrast against the grey siding looks wonderful. For finishing touches we added black wrought iron lanterns to both sides of the door, a decorative trim around the door in white and I just purchased some large black planters for flowers in the summer. 

Here is a couple snapshots of the house after most of the updating was completed.

Once my flowers are all planted and we landscape the front yard I’ll post some more pics.