Finally, something picture-worthy!

The outside of the house has been getting a good amount of work lately - siding is up, shake is up, brick is up.  Here is the new outside of the house - all that remains to be done is painting.  The brick will stay natural brick color, and right now we're thinking of sage green for the main upstairs surfaces with tan accents

To get a closer look at the materials, here is the front gable.  Staggered shake material was used, and cool hand-made wooden supports which I think provide a nice custom touch.  The shake will be the sage green and the wooden supports and grate will likely be the tan.

The same shake material was used on the dormers in front also

Here are the new front porch columns with a guest appearance by a constantly running Lilah

Here's a more close-up view.  You can also see the beadboard ceilings a bit.  We're trying to figure out what color to paint those.  A light blue is kind of a southern thing we've noticed around here, but we've heard that's a Victorian style and this house is more Craftsman.  So do we want to buck traditional style guidelines and pick the color we like anyways...hmm, we'll have  to see...

Here is a view of the new back porch - notice they harvested enough brick from taking down the fireplace and the walls covered in "Lowes" batting that they could wrap the bottom back in the original brick. I like that it's brick and not siding, I think it makes it look more original.

Other side of the back of the house (to the left of the porch picture above)

After we looked at the house, we went out for some Mexican food, where we learned that Lilah inexplicably already knows how to perfectly dip chips into salsa.  Who knew? She loved it!  Quite the double-dipper though, that girl...gotta teach her some party manners...