My brother Sean came down to Tulsa for Thanksgiving and so I enlisted him in the hanging of our Christmas lights. Of course, it was after he and Chris defied death climbing on the roof that we discovered we hadn't bought hooks to hang lights on the gutters. Whoops. Taking advantage of their position, we decided that it would be an opportune time to remove the large metal awnings from the second floor windows.


So what do you think? With the awnings gone, our house definitely looks less squinty and it really shows off the houses original window panes.

We're doing our best to make the house look friendlier from the street. When we moved in, there was a wall of ivy on the side of the porch and metal bars on all the first floor windows. Even though there are still bars on the front door, hopefully it looks a little less like the people who live here are 80 year old shut-ins afraid of the light.

The story goes that the older gentleman who lived here during the '80s used to leave the house once a year, walk to the front of the yard and shoot his handgun into the air to see which of his neighbors were still around. As far as I can tell, the neighborhood has really improved since then.



While Sean was on the roof it was also an opportune time to take pictures for the sole purpose of making my mom nervous. Yes, that is a pirouette and yes, it did make my mom nervous. Mission accomplished. Sorry mom.


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Labels: house, life, remodel

posted at 7:46 PM

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2 Comments:

wow, what a difference it makes! looks great now, and those last photos are classics!

By  Mika, at 12/02/2007 10:24 PM  

Thanks! I'm really happy with it. It's always great to take advantage of little brothers.

By  Marissa, at 12/11/2007 11:48 AM  

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