House Before & After Series: Exterior

We love the colonial style of our home. It has so much character with the original windows, columns, and stucco. It just needed a little mini-makeover to really sing.

Here is the house before we did anything to the exterior:

These pictures were taken in May and our house looks so different now! My first project was to paint the front door a bright red color. I love how inviting and bold red doors are. To compliment the red door, I wanted to paint the maroon shutters black. We also had some landscaping work to do.

Here are pictures with all of the updates!

The red and black is such a classic look. And our garden filled out really nicely! Can't wait to really start working on cleaning that up next spring. Altogether, we painted the door red, painted the shutters black, hung up the flag, got urn planters and plants for the porch, put mulch down, planted some hostas and hydrangeas and gave the yard a nice trim. The house could probably use a wash, but we will save that for the spring.

I love our red door! What do you think?