Let's fall for porches

I am loving all these fall porches I'm seeing!

People here. (in Pennsylvania), really get into it, which I love.

 It makes this time of year even better!

A lot of people around here are using corn stalks, pumpkins of all kinds, hay, leaves, mums of every color... it's all so perfect.

As of right now, I went with a scary porch, spider webbing, rats crawling up the columns, skeletons and ghouls hanging..

But for Thanksgiving, I will make it more fall-ish.

(The back porch on the other hand has pumpkins, mums, and gourds, so I do get to see a little fall).

I really like these porches, one of these years, I'm going to have the perfect fall porch!

Just you wait and see!

Is your porch decorated for fall? Or is it more like mine, where it's scary? 

Work, work all day long..

 

When we bought our house, it wasn't in the most perfect shape, especially the outside. It was snowing so there wasn't much we could do, which gave us some time to save up some money.

We took out an old garden, picked up concrete, and columns that were stuck in the ground where an above ground pool was, we were given some Tiger Lilly's and Rose bushes thanks to the neighbors, Corey planted grass, and now we are finally working on the driveway!

 It's day number three, the rock comes this morning, so it will all be done by today. My boyfriend is such a hard worker, not only did he go to work, but he came home and still worked his butt of until the sun went down just to get this project done. I cannot wait to see the finished driveway. One major project done, only 500 more to go!  

 

What projects are you working on? 

Before & afters

As most of you know, my boyfriend and I have been looking for a house.

(It's hard work trying to find something we both like). I don't consider myself picky when it comes to the inside of a house, cause everything can be redone. But for the outside.. not so much. The outside is very difficult and quite costly to redo. I have to find a house I like on the outside, at least somewhat. I do not want to pull up to my house and say 'ew' but walk inside and say 'ohh-ahh'. -It's just not happening. I have liked three out of the fifteen we've looked at. But all the ones I like are either too expensive (and wont go down on the price), or they have major problems. All I want is something small; two-three bedrooms, one and a half bathrooms, a living room possibly big enough for a table so we wont have to have a dining room, and a small kitchen, and a laundry room that is not in a creepy ass basement would be really really really nice! I don't care if the walls are hideous panels, or brick, I don't care if there is carpet, I don't even care if the walls are crazy colors, you know why? Cause all that is going to be gone in a matters of weeks! I would love to find a Cape Cod style home, I love that cottage look. I don't mind brick, nor vinyl siding as long as it's done right, but then again I looooove wood homes, and I'm hoping that's what we will end up getting! The right house is out there .. somewhere!

Anyways, I was looking through some old blogs and came across a post I liked. It's before and afters, this is perfect; this is what I want to show my boyfriend. That the inside of a hideous house, can be turned into the inside of a beautiful house! I got these pictures from Young House Love.

Go check out their other before and afters and their new home as well!



What do you think?

This house definitely belong in a magazine!

I hope whatever house we find, turns out looking as great at this one!

Houses are a pain in the you know what...

Let's just say, looking for the perfect house is hard.

 There is no other words for it. It's tons of work, it takes up time to go look inside each one, some are really scary, but then you have some nice ones (rarely).

I am moving to Good ol' Pennsylvania with my boyfriend sometime during the holidays/ possibly after. (I am living with my parents still, and he just got out of the military last year, and is living with his parents). Of course we would want to live with our parents forever ... but we can't do that. It's time to start living on our own. We would rather not rent, why rent when you can buy? I don't want an expensive house, just something sort of small, with at least two/three bedrooms, and one and a half bathrooms would be nice. The one thing I do not like about Pennsylvania, is how every house has a basement! Whyyyyyy? Most of them get flooded, well at least where he lives.. and they are scary. Hasn't anyone watched Horror Movies! Okay okay, maybe they aren't all scary. But the ones I've been in/seen, are!

Well anyways, here are a few houses we've seen. It's hard for me to actually go inside of them, since I'm not living there yet. So my boyfriend must call up the Realtor, schedule appointments, and waste precious time going to see all of them. I thought the Gray Stucco House was definitely it! It has three bedrooms, one bath, two car garage.. wood floors, granite counters, white trim. It was perfect! Until his father went over there and noticed some very major things wrong with it. That was a shot to the heart, Corey and I were so excited, thiking this was the one, when it clearly wasn't. It's a lot of stress looking at houses, it's a huge huge huge investment! We are both stressed out, so I told him we just need a few days away from looking at houses. But tomorrow he is going to look at the Cottage (last house on this post). When I was visiting up there, this was acutally the first house we went to go look at, (but we only looked at the outside). When we pulled up, it had no drive way, a little yard, a few problems with the roof (that can be fixed). But it just seemed a little too small for us. I actually ended up liking it, it's on a lake, super nice area, great for running or bike riding! Well, since we haven't found anything, he decided to call the Realtor up, and go take a look inside. Who knows, maybe all this time, it was waiting for us.

This is the view from the window in the living room.

 It needs a little work, but I would have it in Country Living Magazine in no time!