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curb appeal: Spring is in the Air- Can you feel it? - 03/28/08 11:32 AM
Spring is in the air.  There seems to be a new vitality for living about this time every year- even in Southern California.  The home improvement stores seem more crowded with people buying outdoor furniture and plants.  Even the birds seem to chirp more.

 
 
 
I wrote a blog a couple of months ago titled "We are so blind".  I talked about my inability to see the "flaws" in my front porch.  I ended with a promise to show you the after pictures.  Well, I spent this week visiting the home improvement stores and working on my front porch.  Here are the pictures.
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curb appeal: We are so blind..... - 01/29/08 10:27 AM
We are so blind...
We look but we don't see.
How many times per week do we walk up to the front door of our house?  Do we really see how it looks?  Probably not.
I will take my own front entry as an example.  I started to repaint the front door- oh, about 5 years ago.  The door is 80% green, 15% brown (the original color) and 5% white (primer).  The door knob is tarnished and dirty.  The doorbell is rusty.  The "Welcome" mat is missing and the flowers are almost dead.
 

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