Happy Friday, friends! We’ve been wanting to share more of our farmhouse renovation on the blog, and today is the day!! For those of you who follow Tim and I on instagram, you know that we live in a super-old farmhouse and we’ve been restoring it for the past 5 years! (#fairhavenfarmhouse on instagram!) Our house is on 40 acres of preserved farmland, which makes for some gorgeous sunsets and allows us to host our workshops and tons of family gatherings at our home! Although we live in an inexpensive area, restoring this house to its previous beauty is a LONG journey and we’ve DIY’d almost every aspect of it ourselves to save money! We’re going to be showing lots of posts in upcoming weeks and months, because who doesn’t love a good before + after? 🙂 We just discovered the show Fixer Uppers on HGTV and it is so inspirational — but whereas they can finish projects in weeks, we’re normally stretching out projects inbetween the craziness of wedding season + working on it when we can! 🙂 Today we’re going to show you a little before + after of the exterior of our farmhouse!

These aren’t the greatest photos, but this gives you an idea of the exterior of our house when we moved in…cheap whitewash finish, colonial accents, a cracked concrete slab for a front porch (which had burned down), and an overabundance of pine trees…

We started by having the beautiful stone underneath the plaster repointed, digging up all the broken concrete and pouring a new porch while we also built a brand new wraparound porch…And here’s after several months of work! We also replaced those country-style doors by Christmas, as you’ll see in the snowy photos…I love how our house looks in the snow! The next big project for the exterior will be to paint the faded stucco in the back part of the house, and get black shutters – stay tuned for an update there! 🙂  (Photo below by Michael Ash / Ash Imagery)hAnother thing I love about our house…the view of sunsets! Well friends, what do you think? Are any of you currently remodeling or flipping a home, as well? Can’t wait to show you all some of the projects we’ve done to the backyard, and the inside of the house!! Til next time 🙂