Vintage Kitchen Renovation

I'd Like to Cook an Egg in the Nest Egg's Kitchen

I happened upon this kitchen renovation today and had to share. 

This is the kitchen of Rachel Halvorson of

Nest Egg

This was her kitchen before

and here are more after pics

I love the table used as an island.

Great light fixtures!

No comment on the cowhide rug. I'm not a fan of those...but other than that...

I love it.

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Backyard Deck

The Last of Summer

I know Summer is over but no one has told my backyard deck. 

I just love sweet potato vines. I planted just three little plants in each corner planter - two of coleus and one of sweet potato and look at how it's grown over the summer!

Usually, I plant sweet potato vines in the front flower beds too 

but didn't this year because I knew I was going to get a new roof and didn't want them trampled. 

But these survived just fine...so perhaps I should have.

 A new follower of my blog, Janet of The Gardners Cottage read my last post where I was

 contemplating what to do about the landscaping at the front of the house. 

She directed me over to 

Tara Dillard's blog.

Vanishing Threshold: Garden Life Home

I'm so glad she did. It's full of wonderful garden and landscaping ideas. 

I will definitely be reading through all of it. I'm hoping it will help me get my front landscape together.

I realize my back deck is kind of wild and out of hand. 

I'm not saying it's perfection in anyway shape or form. 

If I had some patio furniture...this plant life would have to get under control 

but since I don't have any furniture because I haven't been able to afford any...

I think it's fine to let it get all wild and jungle-y.

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Edgemere Park / House Makeovers

Home Sweet Home

My House and My Street

After

Here is my house with its new paint color. 

Now the yard looks very shabby and not in a good way. 

I couldn't even show a photo of it till now because the grass looked so bad from 

the super hot and dry summer we had. 

But its finally greening up.

I tried to get a photo where the porch was not all dark but to no avail. 

I'll keep trying. 

Now I need to overhaul my landscaping to make it look better with the paint colors. 

I need more blue green in the landscape. 

That cedar in front by the arch on the left has to go. It's all yellow and dying. 

So I'll plant something new there soon. 

But so many of you have been asking to see how the paint and roof turned out that 

I thought I'd show before I fix the landscaping which might have to wait till next spring.

Here was the before:

The house desperately needs the landscaping fixed and some flowers planted 

and flower boxes for next year. 

Why is it...you fix one thing up and it makes everything else look so bad?

I thought it looked pretty nice...till I got the new roof and paint and then....

everything else looked awful.

Here's a few shots of my neighbor's houses.

To the East of me. This photo was shot when my grass was so yellow...a few weeks ago. 

(see the edge of it in this photo) 

This was why I decided to wait to show a photo of my home. 

My neighbor has a sprinkler system so his yard stays looking good even in the hottest weather.

Neighbor to the West of me. 

They have a sprinkler system too, plus lots of shade. 

I envy their shade. I have several trees planted in hopes of one day having a shady yard. 

Right now most of the shade I have comes from their trees. 

Today they were out redoing their landscaping. I'll show that when it's done.

Harold's house. He lives directly across the street from me to the south. 

Harold is the neighbor that put up with me for a week, standing under his bedroom window every morning trying to decide on paint colors. 

He provided moral support when I kept trying different colors of blue/green.

He was pretty proud of himself for picking his paint colors all by himself. 

This house used to have a brown roof and brown trim. 

It's much fresher looking with the gray roof and gray trim.

Just up from Harold...to the West. Their yard looked nice all summer. 

Here's a great makeover.

After

This house is on the other side of the park. 

I don't know the owner but they are doing a wonderful job of fixing it up. 

The inside of this home is really unusual. When I saw it, it needed lots of tlc. 

But seeing what they are doing on the outside...I'm sure they are doing just as well on the inside.

This is what the outside looked like before:

and at one time it was even worse than that -

I knew this house had great potential.

I'm so happy to see its reaching it.

It used to be the ugliest house on the street. 

Well not any more.

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