house make over view

My friend Marcia from ehomebody.com has a great post on her blog about moving into their new home. In it she uses a picture of her house as it looks now and then another picture that she has altered to look like some of the changes she has thought of making. Here are her now and then pics.

Very cute huh? You need to read her article, it was great, here is the link again. Welcome to Our New Home

I thought that was a great idea and decided to try it with my house. we have thought about changing to a red metal roof and maybe adding shutters to the windows upstairs. we might even one day make dormers of those upstairs windows but for now I just kept it simple. This is just a quick alteration by way of MS paint. Took about 15 minutes while doing other things at the same time. Here is my now and then pics.

So what do you think?

old house wish list

This old house needs new ideas. Some of the things we want to do with this house.

• replace the roof with metal
• redo the front porch
• replace some of the floor joists
• new hardwood floors throughout our downstairs
• add a mudroom, utility room
• something with the bathrooms that look like an after thought
• as ugly as they are, gutters
• replace windows
• rewire original structure
• some day I would love a wood cook stove in the kitchen
• storm cellar
• rebuild the bridge over the creek
• fix the leak in the pond
• ok, I am getting outside the house   time to stop

Many of these things will actually make the house look like it used to.