Our House: The outside.

In honor of this month being the one year anniversary of us buying our house, I'm going to do a few before and after posts about it.

We made a list of things that we had to have, and things that we'd like to have in a house and went out with our realtor like a million times before we found this house.

Must-haves:
under $60k
3 bedrooms
2 bathrooms

Not too dilapidated

 Would-like-to-haves:
Big tree to put a swing in
Driveway wide enough for 2 cars
Big kitchen
Extra room in the garage for Jonathan to have a workshop

Our house has all of those, except for the tree for the swing. And, it was way under our budget, which is pretty awesome! And it has the coolest front door I've ever seen!

We bought our house on the cheap and have put a LOT of work into it. We're super proud of how awesome it's becoming. :)

The outside of the house is pretty much the same as it was a year ago. Once we get around to it, we're going to paint it something other than that weird yellow-beige color. We have added a couple of garden beds, but the plants in them are still very tiny. And we bought a flowering cherry tree to put in the front yard once it gets a little bigger. 

And here's now. Jonathan and his uncle replaced the ugly, broken sliding door with some pretty french doors. We just need to frame them out now...

And my uncle helped us frame out the back windows. It's hard to tell in that first picture, but before, there was just that expanding foam stuff and it was pretty yucky. Now, it's lovely! :)

There's still a lot more work to be done on the outside, because we've been mostly focused on the inside, which I'll write about later, once I actually take "after" pictures...