Sometimes people leave comments saying they are envious of my house. Today I’m going to quell those jealous thoughts. My house isn’t big. My house isn’t in an elite neighborhood. My house doesn’t have interesting architecture. My house isn’t my dream house. My house still needs a ton of work – even after all of the renovations we have completed. Case in point…
The garage is a disaster zone. It’s large enough for two cars but we haven’t parked one. single. car. in it. EVER. Instead it holds the typical garage miscellaneous: tools, ladders, bikes, potting soil, random brick pavers, grass seed, a wheelbarrow, a kid-sized basketball hoop, cornhole games…you get the picture. There’s also a full bathroom in there somewhere. All of the supplies for making over the kid/guest bath are scattered within the garage mess. HH and I have reluctantly accepted the fact that there isn’t much we can do in the way of garage organization until we finish the {currently gutted} bathroom. So it is what it is. A jumble of crap with a precarious path leading to the man door. I like organization and things in their places so the garage is hard to handle.
Not only is the inside of the garage a mess, the overhead door needs replaced. It functions okay {i.e., it sounds like a malfunctioning freight train when in goes up or down} but it’s warped, the seal is broken and the paint is peeling badly. We’ve decided it’s not worth the time and effort to scrape and repaint. I have no idea what that trim piece above the garage opening is for but all of the houses in our neighborhood have it. I think it’s ugly. And don’t get me started on the driveway. It is bumpy and riddled with cracks. Grass is growing up through the neglected asphalt. We’re saving up for a new garage door and concrete driveway but until then this is what we’re living with. It ain’t pretty.
The other day I was outside waiting for Layne to get off the bus and glaring at the garage in disgust when I noticed a forgotten electrical box in the soffit above the garage door. Maybe installing a new light fixture would help ease the pain until we could afford a new garage door and driveway?
Um, still painful but decidedly less so. {I can’t decide if I like the garage best with the door up or down. The view is disgusting both ways.}
I give the light an A for effort. Poor thing. It’s really nice but there’s just too much big stuff going on around it for it to make an impact at this point. It’s the Hinkley harbor flush mount in titanium. The matte silver finish is perfect and ties into the metal roof. HH liked that it was large enough to cover the soffit hole so he didn’t have to do any extra finagling during installation.
The seeded glass gives a diffused, warm glow at night. I love that.
Can you picture it with a new garage door and concrete driveway? Eh, someday.
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images: Dana Miller for House*Tweaking
DIY, renovation