Even though we have been living in our downtown townhouse for a little over a year now, I realized that I haven’t shared the front exterior with you. You’ve had plenty of peaks inside the back courtyard, but the front has remained a mystery – until today, that is.
The townhouse is in an historic part of town, and so this Chippendale bench that sat beside the lake at our former house found the perfect home on the patio/walkway in the front of our new place.
When we have company or when something big is happening in the park across the street (like the recent arts fair), I like to dress things up a bit.
I want the people who walk by to think, “Oh, that’s cute. I would love to live in a place like this”. Or, “Oh, that’s cute. I wonder what it would be like to live there”. And the last one – “Oh, that’s cute. I wonder if the inside looks as good as the outside does”.
I just gather up some pillows that are stowed away in the storage room, and display them oh so artfully on the bench. Even pillows with stains work, because that stain won’t show up from the sidewalk. It will only show up when I take a silly photo of it with the zoom at full speed on my camera. And only then will it show up when I share it with the world. Duh!!!
This area gets the morning sun making it a very cozy spot for the fern.
That’s the entryway to our place. I love it.
See, it’s not as small as you would think. We have 3,000 square feet. When I say that I live in a townhouse, I think most people expect it to be dark and teeny. That is not the case at all with our place. Almost everyone who visits is surprised by how large and how bright it is.
We have certain restrictions that were written into the deed. For instance, all of the hardware we use must be colonial in nature. That was not a problem at all, but we did avoid brass and went with an antique and distressed nickel from Baldwin.
I thought I would toss in this shot. I just like it.
The homeowners association (only six townhouses are here) hires professionals to keep up the front plantings – another advantage to living in a townhouse – but we keep evergreens in pots on our “stoop”. When they die from lack of love or lace of water, we just replace them. Well, that’s a little peak of our frontal view. Hope you enjoyed it.
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Beautiful front entrance…I just love the bench in that area with all those gorgeous pillows!…
Your front entrance is just gorgeous! I love the bench and the pillows make it look so pretty. I am sure when people walk by that they think it has to be as beautiful on the inside if it looks this great out front!!