Base coat: check!

We finally got the base coat painted on the house! We still have to paint the gables and fascia and touch up the porch railing and iron shutters.. but it will all come soon.. cant wait to see it once we get new garage door and windows and front door and put some landscaping in! It's coming along :)

Anyway here are pictures, we used the Valspar Duramax Exterior paint and the color is from Porter Paints- light sage:

Pressure washing and lots more yard work!

The longest/hardest weekend so far... this Florida heat and the amount of work is EXHAUSTING! We can barely get through 5 minutes of work before having to stop and down a whole bottle of water or gatorade... but somehow (with the help of our incredible families) we have completely prepped the house for painting- which WILL happen next weekend no matter what!

Antonio with the pressure washer (as clean as you will see him!)

This thing was pretty cool!

like a magic eraser:

Back of the house before:

Back of the house after:

Side of the house before:

Side of the house after:


gettin dirty in the process...

and now i have to clean the apartment since we come home with this mess everyday!

front of the house before:

after bush removal:

after pressure washing:

curious neighbor came for a visit!

speaking of neighbors... this was donated to us by the ones across the street! awesome :)

my mother in law and I did a LOT of trimming, a LOT of bundling...

and a LOT of raking leaves! (sorry trash guy!)

working hard :)

lol love my boy


pray for good weather next weekend... we need to PAINT once and for all!