Before and After House - 2023

 Hi Friends!

Hope you are starting to get into the holiday groove.  I am so excited for Thanksgiving.  I love it more than Christmas honestly. I think there is more work involved with Christmas and it just makes me tired.  With Thanksgiving, I really get to enjoy my time with family.  Everyone brings something for the meal so I don't feel like I do it all.  Really no pressure, just fun.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I had windows and siding put on the house this summer. This house was built in 1896.  My parents bought it in 1972.  I was 2.  It's the only house I've really known.  My dad put lots of time and money into redoing the inside.  They put a metal roof on about 12 years ago.  Any time he changed a window, he just put rolled siding around it.  Nothing ever matched.  It was time to update and make it my own. I bought it 5 years ago.  It was really bittersweet though.  It no longer looks like the house I grew up in.  Here it is before:

And here is the after:

I still have a lot of work to do on the outside and the inside.  I need a new railing for the front porch and I need to clean the limestone rock around it.  I need to find something to cover the foundation on the front and West side of the house. I need to paint around the trim of the windows on the inside. I hope you all like the changes as much as I do.

So along with the goals for sewing for next year, I have house goals too. My biggest for next year is flooring in the downstairs and a deck on the North side of the house.  I would like to also check out the price of having gas put in the house instead of fuel oil. I do need to do some landscaping but that may have to wait another year.  My sidewalks need work too.  It's always something with a home, isn't it?

I am hoping to share one more post before the holidays, but if I don't, I hope you all have a blessed holiday season.

Blessings

Amy