Let's Start At The Beginning
Welcome friends! I'm so excited to finally get this blog up and running. After a few introductory type posts, it's time to get to decorating. When I began thinking of what I should share first, I had a few ideas. The one that made the most sense was to start at the beginning. So, here is a photo of our home from early May of this year. We built our house in 2001, a simple and classic saltbox style. We would have loved a front porch, but it just wasn't in the financial cards at the time. I've always loved the saltbox style, so porch or not, I was delighted with our new home. Fast forward 17 years later, we had the opportunity to completely redo our front entry and driveway this past summer. Here you see our front patio and sidewalk removed, with just the concrete stoop remaining. Beautiful things happened to this old stoop. Our contractor was able to save our daughter's signature and handprint from our original driveway. He worked it into a ...