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Our house...in the middle of the woods - front exterior & unseen projects

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I've realized I need to keep a list of major home projects somewhere so I can remember when we've done things.  So what better place than my blog!  These are listing photo for the house:
We bought the house in 2016 and moved in quickly.  We did an air test before we moved in (it had been vacant and with my mold allergy, I could smell something was off as soon as I walked in.  Thankfully it wasn't mold!)  The tester told us "you should take the carpets out, but since you don't have small animals or crawling children you should be fine for a bit"....we had a 9 month old.  We ripped out the carpet and lived on painted subfloors for a year while saving up money to redo the floors.  I'll tell more about that when I post about the floor redos.




In 2017 we had the fireplace cleaned, even though we'll probably never use it....it never gets cold here (now I've probably jinxed myself for this winter!).  The man that cleaned it said to have him back after we burn a cord of wood....we will see how long that takes us!

We also removed the bushes in the front of the house.  While they defined the sidewalk, they creeped me out - like I would look out my window and see a pair of eyeballs on the other side of them (you can decide human, deer or other ;-))





In 2018 we had the great opportunity to replace both our water and sewer lines.  Please not the sarcasm in that sentence.  Not something that was on our radar as first time homeowners, but hopefully something we never have to do again in this house!  We removed the railing from the bridge - well, I did, in a moment of "take it off and replace the whole thing!" - but we haven't replaced it.  haha  It does work well in it's new spot, but I think I want to paint it.




In 2019 we had our ducts cleaned in an effort to continue improving the air quality of the house.  The man performing the work said "normally these don't look this good as soon as we open them."  Thanks Mom for teaching me to Spring Clean!  This process should be repeated every 5 years or after a major renovation (please let us do a major renovation before that!).  We also removed the shutters from the front of the house.  I'm more of a minimalist girl and these shutters were damping that vibe.  When we took them off there were all kinds of hornet nest behind them! :-O  We are planning to having screens for all the windows by the end of the year (fingers crossed, we have 5 left).











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