Details

I know everyone must be tired of seeing this side of the house. It is easy to photograph this side and besides that it is so pretty to look at. But the pretty stuff takes a lot of detail work! 

You can see my son on the right, reaching up to install, paint or caulk some little piece of wood underneath the roof. There were many little things to be installed and obscure places to reach to paint or waterproof. And there were three sides to go after this! My husband says that  housebuilding is just a bunch of little things that you do one by one. 

Along the way there is maintenance too. The porch & side roof was just plywood at this point, and the metal roofing was a long way off. So it had to be painted with a sun-reflecting paint just to make it last a bit longer while work on the rest of the house went on (that's what my husband is doing at left). Keeping one section from falling apart while you do the other is what happens when you take on a DIY project this big! 

The exciting thing happening in this picture is the battens going on the siding. It isn't a true "board and batten" but the effect is great!

At this point I think we were reconciled to the color... really any color you put on will work as long as you have big, beautiful trim and loads of detail. 

 

And if anyone was bored of watching all the little details on the side of the house, they could always go sit and watch the weather theater.