Front Porch, Round 1

Before

(the ladder was there so I could work on the porch, it doesn't live there)

Not terrible.
However, I was bored with the following things:

1. empty pots all over the place, that belong in the garage
2. half-round rubber doormat...er..."iron sculpture" over the door - too much
3. actual iron sculpture/baskety thing on the wall - pointless
4. black porch railing - was cute five years ago, but I was tired of it. 

And so...

After

Ta-da! 

Instead, we have:

• a cleaned-up porch, with
• off-white railings to match the window trim - and I painted the door trim, too, once I saw that it stuck out like a sore thumb as the only thing that was now not off-white
• iron/rubber wall "art" gone
• The tiny Tibetan prayer flag string, which is actually there in the "before" picture, is relatively new. A friend brought it to me from India a couple of months ago.  :) 
• I also painted the trim around the front door to match the windows and the porch railing

But Wait, There's More! 
  
Wanna see what a seven-year-old, crusty, yellowed, plastic doorbell looks like? 

oh. my. god.

...better

This is not a new doorbell, but it's at least less ugly than the yellowed, crusty mess that it was yesterday.  It's a band-aid on a broken arm, but it's a start.


I DO still need to do something about THIS:

empty planters?! noooo!

Plants are next.


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