New Siding and Newly Engaged – The House series Part 2

Read Part 1 here.

If you remember, this is what the house looked like in 2010:

Ben drew a rough sketch of what he wanted it to look like… including changing the front [door] from the South side to the East side.

And the makeover began!  The new roofing and siding was the one thing that was hired out.

By the time I came to the States and we got engaged {in the front yard of our maybe-someday house, on Valentine’s Day}, the outside was looking beautiful!

The inside…

…had to get worse before it could get better!

One step was, ALL the lath and plaster was now GONE – many dusty hours of work by Ben and friends {thank you all}!

We started off our marriage (2011) doing one of the most stressful things for a marriage: building a house together.  More on that later.

We were so blessed to have a great rental to live in – literally across the road from our “house project” – on a farm site owned by a couple from our church.  We were just there temporarily for 3-4 months, you know, until we finished the house.  Which would be about as quickly and easily as “finish the house” rolls off the tongue.  Five and a half years later…

But I’m getting ahead of myself!