You've come a Long way, baby

For the past few weeks, while my body has been going through changes with BL in my tummy, Matt and I have been making changes to the front of our house.

First, we replaced our garage door with a beautiful door of vertical wood planks. Then, we ordered a new front door from Matt's friend John's company Durango Doors. One of our neighbors described it as "a work of art," and I agree. The door was custom-made in Mexico to fit our house perfectly. The workers who installed our door also painted our exterior windows to match the copper patina door.

Just those two updates made a huge difference to the exterior look of our house, but we weren't quite finished. This weekend we replaced the white shabby chic lamp, mailbox and house numbers we inherited when we bought the house with handcrafted, glass and copper exterior accessories - a contemporary light fixture and a mailbox with our house numbers included as part of the design.

Now that these projects are completed, our landscaping is the next to-do. In the meantime, I'm trying to ignore the dead hedge next to our front door - a result of last fall's foundation leveling project. I think ignoring the hedge is what made it die in the first place!