First Impressions

Well, they say you never get a second chance to make a first impression, but with so much effort to try to get the inside of the house together I guess we kind of neglected the outside of the house! Our house was ok from the front, but just very dark, and blah. So, me the non-gardener that I am decided to take this task head on!!!

Here is our pain jane house...
Nothing there but DIRT!!! LOL!

The first thing that I did was go straight to Home Depot for assistance. I informed them that I wanted some plants that were low maintenance and didn't require me to be in the lawn everyday! I purchased some Hostas and planted them that same day. Below is the pic of what was done day#1.
Baby steps...baby steps!! LOL!! I then decided that I HAD to get rid of our red doors!!! Since I've been banned from painting from the hater hubby, I decided to wait until he went out of town to complete the paint project. One day we will eventually get new doors, but until then the least I could do was paint them!! I tried to match the color the best I could with a color to match the garage door. I thought it would brighten up the house some.

Here is a pic of the doors prior to me painting.

...and as you can see from the after, it looks much better!!! No more dark red doors!!

I then thought I was doing something with the landscaping, and decided to take it a step further and go to Eastern Market to shop for some additional plants. I found four that would bring more color to the front of the house, but are also low maintenance!!! After I planted those, I took a visit to English Gardens where I purchased some rocks to place around the area of the plants. Overall, I'm happy with the look, but just need to purchase some more rocks to give it a fuller look. Now, hubby has to cut down those bushes...I dislike them so!!!!