The Shutters

 Our house, with shutters, Sept. 2009.

We're planning to refinance the house soon, since this is a good time to do it, our current loans suck, and we're planning on being in this house for forever.  This prompted us to ask a realtor what our house would be likely to appraise for.  The results weren't promising, but they weren't horrible, either.

So, our plan is to do some small home projects (seriously.  Small) and THEN have the appraiser come.  We took out a pad of paper and listed off 5 projects to get done.

One of those, simple enough, was the shutters.  They need re-painted or replaced, and re-painting is cheaper. 

So last night Rob was home and we took down all the shutters.  I hadn't realized that there are shutters on every window (at this point can I interject that these aren't really shutters.  They're PRETEND shutters.  Decorations.  And that's lame), and we have 9 windows.  Fine, fine, just more to paint.

But do you know what happens when you take down fake shutters?  You find bugs.  Lots and lots of bugs.  Behind two of the windows on the back of the house were large wasp homes.  One of them housing a LIVE wasp.  Ugh.

Rob and I looked at each other and said, "How's about we NOT put these back up?"  Good plan.  So we hosed down the house, because seriously, the house was dirtier under the shutters, and we're going to leave it like that.

The door will be painted a dark blue, and the storm door may or may not be replaced in the near future (or at all).  So this picture represents a work-in-progress.

And can I also say that I like home projects that require us to take something down and NOT put it back up?  Saves time and effort and money.  Win, win, win.

The End