1/17/2024 0 Comments White house with red metal roof![]() And don’t even get me started on the tree work we need to done.Īnyone wanna come over and knock all that out for me? □įor anyone curious, the shade of white we used on the exterior is Sherwin Williams Alabaster and the black doors are Sherwin Williams Tricorn. I accidentally ordered one less outdoor sconce than we needed, so when we get the extra it will need to be installed on the far right side of the front of the house. We also need to replace a few boards on the porch and then stain it. Currently, it’s drywall and we’d like to do vinyl. We also need to replace the ceiling of the porch. Before we can have gutters installed we have to install a wood strip around the perimeter under the roof lip, which is a weekend of work and another boom lift rental. We need to do the landscaping but we’re waiting to do that until we have gutters installed. See the ugly brown frames on the old ones? Yuck! We have about 44 windows so needless to say we won’t be doing that anytime soon, and when we do, we’ll probably have to do a few at a time haha. We have definitely come a long way but there’s still a long list of things to do to the exterior. I love the way the black and white look together. I chose black accent doors and black outdoors sconces for the exteiror of our white farmhouse. The metal crew followed them a few days later and spent 10 days installing the new galvanized metal roof.Īfter the roof was done, we finished the exterior painting and installed black outdoor sconces. ![]() The first crew came out and removed all of the old shingles, repaired some of the wood and laid the roof underlayment. The following week the roofers got to work. That photo was taken from 30′ up in the air on the boom lift. That’s what it looked like after we finished painting the top. But I’m happy to report, we finally have an all white farmhouse. We didn’t finish painting the bottom story of the house until after the new roof was done. It took longer than expected since we have about 22 windows on the top story alone, that all had to be taped off. The second story was our main concern prior to the new roof install, so we did that first. We already owned a paint sprayer and pressure washer so our investment was limited to the paint and the heavy equipment rental, all in all about $2k and 4 full days of hard work, in two phases…in the Florida summer heat. Hiring it out would have cost several thousand dollars. We saved a ton of money painting the house ourselves. We saved time and effort and didn’t have to stress over the horror of getting paint on a brand new roof. Painting the house while the old roof was still on meant that we could worry less about getting paint on the roof and we didn’t have to do as much taping off since all those shingles would be removed. When we were finally on the roofer’s schedule, we decided it was a great opportunity to go ahead and paint the house. It was significantly more expensive than replacing the shingles would have been, but it was worth it. We chose a metal roof primarily for the aesthetic, but metal roofs last forever so we’ll likely never need to replace the roof again. The shingle roof was really old and we knew it would be one of the first things we’d have to replace after closing. Already much better.Īnd here’s what it looked like after the brick and the bottom level were painted.Įven better, but definitely not a white farmhouse and we knew changes were in the future. Here’s the progress after the siding was painted and installed a new front door. We knew eventually we’d have to re-paint the house. Of course, we had zero say in anything so we watched in loathing as they painted the house a beige-y hue. During the stressful, drawn-out period we were under contract, the bank did some work to the house including painting the exterior. I explained the whole backstory in my introductory blog post about the house, but the house was bank owned and had been vacant for a while. ![]() We knew right away that it would look cute if it were a white farmhouse with a metal roof. ![]() The “way before” photo is what the house looked like when we saw it for the first time. ![]() Let’s take a look at some before and afters, shall we? The exterior is still not done, but we have come a loooong way and pretty much have our dream white farmhouse with a metal roof now! There’s a blog post on the black outdoor farmhouse lights we were considering at the time. We also painted the exterior doors and installed new outdoor lights. If you’ve been following along for a while, you may recall that we painted the exterior of our house (we DIY’d it!) and got our roof replaced this summer. My friend pointed out recently that a lot has happened to the exterior of our house that I haven’t shared on the blog. ![]()
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