Exterior paint DONE!

 We just finished painting the exterior of our house ourselves.  It took us a week and a half, one tall ladder, a Jeep (to put the ladder in), about 20 gallons of paint, a paint sprayer, several rolls of painters tape, two paintbrushes and a lot of sweat!  We ended up using Sherwin William's paint, which we got on their 40% off sale for a great deal.  The body color is called Gray Matters, white trim is Snowbound and the accent teal is Mediterranean.
  Next on our to-do list is to rent an rototill machine to even out the ground so we can have the top soil delivered and spread out evenly.  Then we will build the fence around the property.  We have waited on that because we want the topsoil truck to be able to access the yard.
  We have some plans on improving the exterior, we are going to add a large pergola on the back patio and a small one in front of the garage door. I will add some sample pictures so you can see what I mean. :)

 We are done painting!

 The back patio, with my little garden on wildflowers and gladiolas off to the side. :)

This is my idea for the small pergola over our garage. Then I will plant a climbing flower like Clematis.

We are going to build a pergola attached to the house like this on our back patio, probably next summer.  I like the lights they hung for night time entertaining.