House Exterior

Not much has budded or started growing here in Minnesota, so everything on the outside of the house looks.....brown. Repainting the exterior to a more interesting color is in the long-term plans, but I think we'll probably concentrate on doing some landscaping and getting new plants in this summer.

House front - left. The neighbors on this side have several large dogs. The only time we've really seen the people who live there, they were in their backyard practicing using numchucks. (!)



House front - right. There have been very few signs of human life from this side of us - just some lights on at night and occasionally a black dog in the backyard. Oh well....quiet is good.



Entryway. For lack of a better place to relate this, we have met the neighbors across the street. They're a nice couple about our age with a four-month-old daughter. They brought us some good cookies to welcome us to the neighborhood and do not appear to have any hobbies involving deadly weapons.



Planting area on the right side of the house. There are a few shrubs in the upper part of this planter. The MLS listing picture of the house indicates that there were some other plants in the lower part, but I don't know if they were perennials or annuals. That's the window to our bedroom. I took these pictures as we were trading out the storm windows for screens, so the screen is just sitting there.




Planting area on the left side of the house. This is just below the picture window in the living room. There's a solitary shrub and an empty container in the planter.



Side entry. This leads into the kitchen, and is the door we use the most. This is taken from the back of the house.



Another shot of the side entry, from a little further back in the yard.



Here's the rear of the house, air conditioner, screens, ladder, and all. The location of the air conditioner and the electric boxes above it really limits what we can do in terms of planting and landscaping.



We have a small sunny space here where there's a gap in the neighbors' privacy fence. The previous owners had some plastic containers here - I may want to do something more permanent.



The main flower bed in back is up against the garage wall. It's hard to see here, but it's just two railroad ties with some bare earth in between. I have no idea what might be in here.



The previous owners left a strange little garden figure and a plastic sunflower pinwheel. Gives the yard character, right?



Here's the last corner of the yard - not much here but the chain link fence.