Making your mark

(June, 2009)

Friends,

As we have lived in bungalow a while, a desire grew to make a mark on the home.  Some ideas have already come up:

• a bathroom renovation
• restoring the coat closet
• pulling up the bedroom/hallway blue carpet and restoring the bedroom hardwood floors (which will require replacing the floor in some areas)
• curb appeal

This month, we decided to pull the hedges out in the front yard.  Wow, the house looks so much more prominent from the road now!  We are looking at adding a lilac, ground cover and butterfly bushes to replace the hedges.

In case you ever try to tackle this, be prepared to spend some back-breaking hours pulling the roots out after the scrubs have been cut to ground level.  Poor Ryan underestimated how long this would take one night, and used the headlights of the Jeep to "light" the work zone.  Our neighbors probably think we are nuts now! (Sorry!)

We also refreshed the master bed room.  An antique trunk was given to us by a family member and gives the room added authenticity.  

Enjoy your upcoming 4th of July!