Portland Bungalow Remodel: Before and After Exterior

Our home renovation is just about complete. All that’s left is painting the foundation and a few touch ups. It’s been a long five and a half months but we couldn’t be happier with the results. First up on the tour: Before and afters of the exterior.

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Front Before September 2012

Beginning the demo...

Bumping out the front dormer

Framing the Porch

Go Away Rain!

Siding Installed

Tada! February 2013

February 2013

Our Color Palette

Sherwin Williams Slate Tile (lap siding), Mount Etna (shingles) and Stolen Kiss (doors). It turned out more blue than I envisioned but we're digging it.

Front Porch

Can't wait for summertime with our full front porch

Side of House

My old office

Side Entrance

We now have a side entrance to a mudroom off the driveway.

Back of House Before September 2012

Beginning the Demo...

Back Dormer Going Up

Under Wraps

Goodbye Old Siding

And dry rotting deck, and broken hot tub...

New Siding Getting Installed

Tada! Back of House February 2013

Back of House

Tada!

Side of House

Siding up

Paint is Almost Dry!

Garage Before September 2012

Garage After February 2013

Our Awesome Contractor

Thank you to Rick Blum, owner of Complete Construction and his amazing crew (not pictured :).

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portlandsun February 21, 2013 at 10:48 pm

this.is.awesome!!!!

Uncle Bob February 22, 2013 at 2:00 pm

beautiful work. love everthing you did. how many month’s did it take??
where did you live? uncle bob

dailygnome February 23, 2013 at 7:59 am: Thanks Uncle Bob! We rented a couple houses through airbnb and house sat for friends when they went to Europe. Took about 5 months but we moved back in before Christmas.

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