I didn’t find an original before photo of the next view of our landscaping, but here it is after the first makeover: I’ll give y’all a closer look at the porch on Thursday since I already have too many photos, but it is one of my favorite and most used spaces! Plant teenagers! And it has personality now! Here is the view of the right side of our porch when we bought it:Īnd this is what this side looks like now: It wasn’t easy to see past all the overgrown everything when we were house hunting, but one thing that really stood out was the porch. We really hit the jackpot with teachers this year! The Porch View Side note: The colorful spinning flower in that photo was a surprise my son’s teachers left in our garden bed. Now it says Welcome! Come on in! We don’t eat people lol. It really did look so naked compared to the before but so much cleaner and much more welcoming!Īnd here is what our entry looks like today: It doesn’t exactly scream House for Sale, right? More like Stay away…stay far far away!Īnd here is what it looked like after the initial Phase One redo: This was the welcoming front entry when we first bought our home in 2017, complete with blinds dangling by a thread from the arched window up top: It suited that unique home perfectly.įor this home, I wanted more of a structured landscape that was easier to maintain. If you’ve seen our old home’s landscaping, you know that we had more of a garden, which we planted from scratch and I absolutely adored. I was determined that this year I was going to get things in order! I had planned last Spring to get out there and move some things around and replace a few things that weren’t looking so good, but COVID hit and that was that. Fast forward to the following year and things started to finally take off.

I’ll admit that it looked a little naked after, but still SO much better! I didn’t water as properly as I should have and with an unusually dry Spring the following year, the growth of just about everything was really stunted. In 2018, we pulled out everything except for the Japanese maple on the right corner, and started fresh:

However, it had been a rental for several years, and the landscaping had become very overgrown. It’s a good thing I can see past all that! Underneath it all, it was amazing! Yikes! My husband did not want to buy this house because it wasn’t very well cared for, and for what we were spending, he wanted a home in pristine condition. Here is how our home looked when we moved in in the Summer of 2017: I thought it would be fun to see the progression from when we first purchased our home nearly four years ago to the first phase makeover, and then to the most recent update, so I’m going to share it that way! Hello amazing friends! With the kitchen floor tile demo (Read more about that project HERE.) getting underway yesterday, it was perfect timing to share the updates we made to our front yard landscaping just a couple of weeks ago!

Front yard landscape photos