Well, we have been in the cottage farmette for about three months now. We are taking our time in fixing it up. We have done a lot with the inside, but we still have a ways to go. One of our priorities before winter comes is the outside. The house needed painting badly! The decks are in bad shape as well. There are boards that are unscrewed, and, as you can see in the above picture, the boards all need to be stained and sealed. After the house is painted, we are going to work on the decks. We found a product at Home Depot that is a thick paint-tinted plastic that will make the decks look sharp. Picture one is a picture of the side of the house, but it has been turned into the main entrance. Both sides had very overgrown bushes like what you see at the left of the picture below. We wrapped chain around them and yanked them out with our SUV. I will replace with roses and snow ball bushes in the next couple of weeks.
We will trim the bushes by the fireplace, but I promised my husband if he took the other bushes out, he could keep these three. I am not sure what I am going to do about the black plastic under the rocks that was torn up when we pulled out the bushes.
This is the front of the house. I am sure this was once the main entrance but has since been enclosed with a deck. We pulled the bushes away from the front of the house which was shown in a previous blog post. I love this little deck. Our dogs can come out onto it with us, and they are safe. The colors I have chosen for the house paint are a dark gray, cream trim and black for the doors. It is going to look great. I can't wait for it to be completed!!
This is the side of the house opposite to where the current front door is. We have a nice little deck that leads to the yard. We have room for a grill and table and chairs. The deck is off of the bedroom we use as a Master.
This is the back of the house. What is interesting about this house is that we have a door leading to the outside on every side of the house. This back part is also very clearly an addition. We think it was originally a back deck and possibly a one-car garage. I wish we could find out more about the history of this house. I have been talking to neighbors, but we still have very little information.
Those are the before pictures. The outside paint job should be completed by the end of this week, and I will post after pictures. We have big plans for this place! Since this is going to be our last home, I want it to be everything that we want. We have future plans to add a two-car garage, a swimming pool, a koi pond and courtyard garden, an orchard, a berry garden, and much larger vegetable garden. Our goal is to become as self-sufficient as possible with few financial obligations. We are trying to think of ways to make money off of our little farmette. We have ideas that include a possible pumpkin farm, organic-raised chickens, and on and on. God has blessed us so richly! We are very thankful, and we thank you for joining us on this journey.
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