{"id":40502,"date":"2018-12-17T19:59:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T00:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=40502"},"modified":"2018-12-18T09:37:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T14:37:36","slug":"townhouse-exterior-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=40502","title":{"rendered":"Townhouse Exterior Reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are so happy to start finally showing you photos and reveals of our new home.\u00a0 Our landscaping was finished last week when we were away, and we love how it turned out.\u00a0 As a refresher, we bought this place the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day last year and started demo a few weeks later. \u00a0 It had been on the market over a year and had no offers.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because it needed a ton of work, and most baby boomers don’t want to take on such a project.\u00a0 We love a challenge and decided to just do it! We replaced pretty much everything from the roof to the basement floor.\u00a0 We basically built a new house within the brick walls.\u00a0 Now, today we are showing you the freshened up exterior with its new windows, paint, lights, and landscaping.\u00a0 Still missing is the fence.\u00a0 We had parts of it removed during construction so we could park a dumpster on the front lawn, and also, so we could bring in cranes to lift a steel beam into place. The missing fence will be reinstalled the first week of January. And the pots don’t have plants in them yet.\u00a0 I’ll fill them in the sprung.<\/p>\n

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I couldn’t wait to show you.\u00a0 Here it is.\u00a0 The same landscapers who did our courtyard<\/a> did the front yard.\u00a0 When they worked on the courtyard, it was 90 degrees, and when they did the front, it was in the 20’s and 30’s.<\/p>\n

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(before)<\/p>\n

Here’s what it looked like before we began.\u00a0 It was tired because the previous owners lived here 19 years and did nothing.\u00a0 The landscapers removed a lot of soil to even out the lawn.<\/p>\n

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We chose Naval by Sherwin Williams in a high gloss for our front door.\u00a0 It’s the perfect navy and is darker than what you are seeing in this photo. Later on you will see how that color weaves its way throughout our home.\u00a0 Pure White by Sherwin Williams is on all of the wood.<\/p>\n

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I love navy and black together, and so we used black hardware by Baldwin.\u00a0 We used Baldwin (formerly known as Baldwin Brass) throughout the house.\u00a0 The previous door knob was colonial and a simple round design.\u00a0 I love a lever, and we went with a simple lever that matches the hardware on the inside.\u00a0 We did keep the original front door.<\/p>\n

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I have shown you our mail closet from the inside.\u00a0 This is where the mail goes in.\u00a0 This cover is by Baldwin, and I bought it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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My favorite new addition is our house number plaque<\/a>.\u00a0 (I edited out the number.)\u00a0\u00a0 I wanted it to look like the house numbers we have seen in London, and this one is pretty darn close.\u00a0 You can buy it here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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I like a big exterior light.\u00a0 It bothers me to see a beautiful house with lights that are too small.\u00a0 I actually found a formula to help determine the proper light size and followed it when selecting these lights.\u00a0 The glass is beady so that it won’t show dirt, and I see from this photo that the light could have used a good dusting.\u00a0 Whoops!<\/p>\n

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And we love our Ring doorbell<\/a>.\u00a0 If you have thought about getting one, you will be so glad that you did.\u00a0 It gives us great piece of mind even though we have a security system.\u00a0 It would also make a great Christmas gift.\u00a0 You can buy one here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I like plants with shiny leaves that stay on all year.\u00a0 We selected boxwoods, hollies, and laurels.\u00a0 We saved some oak leafed hydrangeas and transplanted them.\u00a0 We are hoping they will survive.<\/p>\n

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The courtyard wall got climbing hydrangea, but it is dormant right now.\u00a0 We might add a few espaliered trees in the spring to the wall.<\/p>\n

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The only prickly plants are arborvitae which we planted to add some privacy on the side of the house.\u00a0 You can see the red maple that we planted to replace the tree that we cut down illegally.\u00a0 It’s the one that got us in trouble with the historic commission.\u00a0 You can read about my summons to appear before the historic commission here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a portion of our fence.\u00a0 I will show you more photos when the rest of the fence and gate are back.<\/p>\n

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We will enjoy watching this all grow and fill in over the years.\u00a0 I’ll probably plant some annuals in the summer and will enjoy seeing the color against the lush greens.<\/p>\n

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Take care.<\/p>\n

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