We have started exterior paint!!! Well, kind of. Our painter came out 2 weeks ago to power wash our house, and that means things have officially begun. Even if it isn’t the glamorous part yet, it still means there is progress!

Merritt thought the process was amazing. She was very interested when they were at the back of the house along the deck where she could see what was going on

It was pretty adorable how into it she was. I thought she might find the loud noise and the spraying of water everywhere a little overwhelming for her, but she just sat there soaking all in. Even waving

Cutie.

Luckily it was super hot last week and over that weekend, so the house got a really good chance to dry all the way out and we got started on some fixes.

About 2 weeks ago Chris got the basement door replaced (gotta write that post…), and the bars that were on some of the windows gave been removed as well (we live in a great neighborhood, I’m not sure why these were ever put on). But the big item that needed to be worked on was the fascia boards on the front of the house: they were basically completely rotten. It made more sense to replace the boards rather than repair them.

But soon realized that more was in not great shape and it was better to just replace it ALL along the front of the house

While the fascia was off Chris took the opportunity to wire in for another light. There were two existing lights flanking the garage. But there wasn’t a light on the other corner of the house, which didn’t really make aesthetic sense to either of us. Chris wasn’t exactly thrilled wire in another light, but with the fascia boards all taken down, it was a really easy process

And while he was at it he even went for extra credit and shifted the light in the corner so that it lined up evenly the other two

The first light at the corner of the house was on the third board of the eave, but the light in the corner was on the second board of the eave. Yes, I know, totally being nitpickers, but we wired the new light on the third eave (looked the best) so we wanted all three to be lined up properly together.

What lights did we get? Well, it’ll be a while till we install them (a finishing touch after paint is done), but I of course have spent too much time online shopping 🙂 Because we needed three ceiling lights for the front and one wall mounted light for the back I vowed to keep the price under $100/each. And it took a little convincing, but I got Chris onboard wth having lanterns, hooray! The lights along the porch will stay recessed lights, but these three in the eaves will be lanterns. And after MUCH research I settled on these babies

They have a couple sizes, but got the 14″ ones for $68.25 each with a trade discount. We also opted to get the wall mounted light that matched the series for the back of the house (at the same price)

It’s exciting that this process has started!!!