Exterior Makeover Reveal!!! {Notes from Home}

MAKEOVERS· Notes from Home· Tennessee Home

31 Jan

*This post is sponsored by Lowe’s. All design, project, and content ideas are 100% mine.

Happy Friday, friends!

I am SO EXCITED to finally share our Exterior Makeover Reveal with y’all!

(Be sure to read through to the end of this post to see our latest episode of Notes from Home! Luke worked extra hard on this week’s video and used his drone to take video of our home. I think you will like it!)

It has taken us several months to complete it, but it’s finally finished, and we are thrilled with the results!

Do you remember what it looked like when we bought it?

Here’s a reminder…

Large stone columns on a small dark porch, yellow siding, brown brick, and green shutters and doors. WOW!

Now our house is white, making it feel much more light and airy, plus we now have a large front porch to enjoy!

I sure do wish we had beautiful green grass and lots of flowers in our landscaping right now, but sadly we do not. But I still think our house looks good with the dead grass and bare trees. haha!

We knew as soon as we saw the house that those stone columns HAD to go! But we didn’t know right off that we would be extending the roof line on our porch, but I am so glad we did!

It doesn’t even look like the same house, but I swear it is! haha! We extended the roof line so that the double windows would be a part of the front porch as well.

The front porch used to feel so small and dark. But one thing I did like was the lights in the stone columns. It got me thinking that I would like to have lights on our new columns as well.

So we decided to put new lights by the front doors and on the columns!

Speaking of doors….

I was so happy the day we got rid of the old green doors with mismatched handles.

The Pella doors from Lowe’s turned out beautiful! You can see how Cy stained these doors in our NEW Notes from Home video at the bottom of this post.

The original porch was made of brown brick and brown aggregate concrete. It was dirty and moldy and needed a change.

The herringbone brick pavers that we used to create our new porch is one of my favorite parts of this whole makeover. It turned out even better than I expected!

The porch before didn’t really have any definite landscaping.

I’m so glad that we now have some landscaping started around our front porch, and I look forward to adding some beautiful, colorful flowers to it this spring!

When we bought the house, it had green shutters on every window. My first thought was that I would paint those shutters black or replace them with new ones.

But when we took them off, I like how much bigger the front of our house look without them that I didn’t want to put them back on. I decided to leave them off and to paint our windows black.

Many of you have asked if we got new windows, but we did not, except for the three on our garage. (One is on the right side of the house.)

The rest of the windows are the original wood windows that we painted Valspar’s Ebony Fields like the trim and gutters.

We did, however, add one piece of painted wood trim to the top half of the window for extra detail. I love the uniqueness of our windows, even though one day, we will probably have them all replaced with new ones.

The left side of the house was very covered up by the large magnolia tree. We did trim that tree quite a bit, and the white paint on the house helps to make that side stand out a little more.

Can y’all just picture how pretty this home will look with green grass this spring?!! I can’t wait!

Here is one more before picture of our house when we bought it…

And the after…

On Monday, I will be sharing a post with all the details of the products I used to decorate my front porch, like the planters, chairs, rug, etc. So stay tuned for that!

If you have any questions about this makeover at all, feel free to ask!

And if you missed any of the projects we competed for this makeover, you can click on the links below to check them out!

How to Prep Your Home’s Exterior for Paint

How to Install Brick Veneer Pavers {Herringbone Pattern}

Notes from Home