{"id":226,"date":"2011-02-27T21:59:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T21:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/thisoldhouse\/?p=226"},"modified":"2013-09-13T22:26:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T02:26:29","slug":"curb-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/2011\/02\/27\/curb-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"curb appeal!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I want to focus on while we save our money for the foundation is small things we can do to spruce up the curb appeal for our house. Both the outside and the yard need a little attention. I want to focus right now on the outside of our house. Here is the most recent picture I have, taken last Christmas:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/twentysixcats\/5298621240\/\" title=\"Snow on the roof by twentysixcats, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5167\/5298621240_2caecb0e02.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" alt=\"Snow on the roof\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We obviously need to touch up the paint around the front door! We don&#8217;t want to spend the money right now to paint the whole house, so we thought we&#8217;d find the closest color and try to patch up that front area so it doesn&#8217;t look quite so bad. :-)<\/p>\n<p>I also have been looking at the other houses in our neighborhood, and I&#8217;ve noticed that usually the shutters are a different color than the window frames. Also, the shutters tend to match the front door. I am thinking of painting our shutters, then, as a more inexpensive way to update the outside. What do you think? And, what color do you think I should paint them? I am leaning towards black. Should we also paint the front door, or leave it white? I&#8217;d like to leave it white because we can&#8217;t change the color of the storm door (or can we? I guess we could paint that too).<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts\/feedback\/advice would be helpful. :-) I&#8217;m so glad it&#8217;s warm enough to paint! (Although everyone thinks it&#8217;s going to get cold again before it becomes summer for real.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I want to focus on while we save our money for the foundation is small things we can do to spruce up the curb appeal for our house. Both the outside and the yard need a little attention. I want to focus right now on the outside of our house. Here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}