The freshly poured concrete for the seawall with glistening sun rays. This is the view towards the west. Photos were taken Friday evening after five full days of construction.
This is the view towards the east. The forms are being removed this morning.
The concrete was hand mixed before pouring it into the forms.
Now that the old boardwalk has been removed and replaced with a narrow seawall, we've ended up with more yard space.
It amazes to think that entire seawall was mixed by hand and then poured. With Mi Miguel and me doing the leveling of the concrete floor in the living room, I've learned that mixing concrete by hand is a lot of work.
Mi Miguel was so tempted to write our names or the year or both in this wet concrete. But I insisted that we just leave it alone. For the price we are paying for this new seawall, it's best to just leave it alone and let it dry.
Saturday morning we visited family and hit a few thrift stores. You can't imagine how ecstatic I was to find this little hidden treasure tucked away in a back room. Mi Miguel wasn't impressed but I loved it. We paid $20.00 for it, brought it home to research the artist and found out it is worth over $350.00. I do have an eye for art.
Sunday morning, I set out to paint the vestibule a nice cream shade. The peach walls and the pumpkin door just doesn't work for us.
While I painted Mi Miguel installed a new light fixture. The one in the vestibule was an eye socket light.
Mi Miguel will be changing that light fixture on the soffit to a surveillance camera.
He worked and worked on figuring out a way to get the new light fixture to work in the old eye socket place.
With a few pieces of wood and a little ingenuity, he figured it out and started installing the new light.
Here is the new light. It looks much more updated and attractive than the eye socket light.
I continued to paint the vestibule cream. In no time we had the vestibule looking a lot different.
The stone looks nice with the muted green and cream. The door just isn't working for us though. There's just something about that pumpkin color that doesn't compliment the stone.
The stone arch over the sidewalk is something we've thought about removing. But with the new color of the house and the power washing of the stone, it's becoming something that we love now.
After I painted the vestibule, I wondered if we should've went a few shades darker with the green. This wonderment of mine made Mi Miguel cringe since we have half of the house already painted with the softer green.
Before we did anything drastic, we test painted a shutter cream to see if it made the green look a little more colorful.
After many shots at different angles, we think it will work. A darker green just wouldn't enhance the colors in the stone.
We checked it out on the opposite side, just to make sure. Mi Miguel was absolutely convinced that the muted green was perfect.
He even put the shutter on the opposite of the window to show me the perfection of the green with the cream shutter.
He's right, the stone looks great with the soft colors. It doesn't compete with the paint. I can see the vibrancy in the arches. I get it, we aren't going with a darker shade of green at this point of no return.
The double arches were too much with the peach and before it was power washed it was almost unsightly. Cleaned up and with the house being a new color, the double arches are what makes the house look charming and inviting. Now that we are keeping it, we are painting the stucco part of it cream.
The cream is proving to be much more attractive than the peach. The cream worked better than the green for the arches.
The door needed painted. I couldn't sleep until this door was painted. So we made a mad dash to the home improvement store last evening to buy paint. This deep copper looks great with the stone, don't you think? It still needs a second coat but so far we love it.
Here is what the front entryway looked like when we first bought the house.
Mi Miguel removed the screening, right after the closing. What a difference just by doing that.
By removing the screening it really brought our attention to the peach color and pumpkin trim.
Here's the pumpkin door, doesn't the copper look richer?
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