House Projects

One of Luke's first pick-up type lines he threw my way was "If you don't find me handsome, you should find me handy". Little did he know how handsome I thought he was. And little did I know how handy Luke was going to turn out to be. So, Luke has been working really hard lately putting all his handiness to work getting all of our house projects done. The biggest three thing were landscaping, finishing the deck, and some woodwork mainly in the utility room and kitchen. I am happy to report that we are done!!! Here are some before and after pictures.

This is a rear view of our house when we bought it. To locate a reference point in the picture below look to Luke's right and you will find that we used the same spot for the air conditioning unit. The house was only a 2/1 with a office when we bought it. It's now a 4/3 with office.

Luke cleaning up the yard so that we could lay down sod. You can also see that the deck is about halfway done.

The finished deck.

Bailey and Emmy enjoying a cookout on the newly finished deck.

Front of the house with new landscaping. We decided to be nice to our pocket book and buy younger plants that will grow in over the years. All of the plants you can see are Texas natives that can survive the Texas summers.

This is the side/back yard that gets alot more shade. Luke knows how much I love getting flowers and wanted me to be greeted everytime I come home with pretty flowers... awww.

This is what our house looked like when we bought it.

So I am not terribly sad that we are going to sell our house because I knew going into it that we would only live there for 2 years. However, I have really come to love this house and neighborhood. There is some nervousness about the unknowns, but we are ready to get settled into a house we can live in for more than a couple of years and establish some roots.