No More Front Porch

So here it is painted (but not clompleted). I still am wanting to add certain accent colors around or on the bay window, above the door and the big windows on the first floor. Also thinking of adding an accent to the peak...who knows. Probably wait til next year.
SO my front door is about 10 feet off the ground. It's kind of funny. 

My front porch is gone. And it's amazing how great my house looks with out it. I mean it looks so much better. The bummer is that it can't be back to the original. I believe the original porch went straight out into the street. The street must have been much narrower and thus the porch was constructed differently. Kind of sucks but what can you do. My friend Gabe is making me a new porch and I am sure it will be much prettier than the old one that was falling down. 

Hudson a Go Go

Robin's Egg Blue (WRONG color)

Building Down by the Hudson River. Perhaps one of  the first Whaling Manufacturing Companies in Hudson?

The View From River Park

Trusty Amtrack

 I am back in town for two months. Which is really nice. Trying to get to know Hudson and settle in a little bit. Meanwhile painting my house. Which turns out to be more difficult then I thought. Figuring out the colors has been a daunting task. Colors look much different on a swatch then they do on a house. 

My house being primed. It looks really tall from this perspective.

Pictures just because

  THis is the front of my lovely mansion. It needs a little tlc and a paint job. But none the less she is a beauty...
SNOWY HUDSON...
THE LOCAL BAR WHERE I MIGHT MEET MY HUSBAND:)

uprootin'

so since I have come back to the blog to post pics I figure why not a few words too. So needless to say that I am happy now that I am in my house, sans furniture:) the move was interesting and stressful. I thought the buying the house part was going to give me a hernia. Try having a gaggle of freaks work on your house. My contractor, Chester, is definitely an amazing human in many ways. He looks like Santa on more than a 6 pack of coors lite a day. Although, I must say he did a fine job on my house.

most of you know that i can be a bit anal and manic so the best thing about Chester and my relationship is that we could yell at each other. It was a match made in heaven. I was so worried that they were doing everything wrong. I mean come on you have these people tearing up your house and well I don't know dittly about building a corner foundation. So that part caused me to go to Homedepot, Lowes and Dunn's (the local contractor joint) about 50 times a day. They all know me. 

When fixing a house the amount of decisions that are necessary to be made are unbelievable. I mean lighting fixtures, paint color, toilets, tile, cabinets it's endless. I started to not have the ability to make a single decision. Everything seemed all too permanent. 

So now that I have had a few days in my own bed, it had been over two months not recommended for you sanity, I love my house. I hope that I come to believe buying this old beast was the best decision I ever made. 

There is still much work to do. Paint the outside, grow a lawn (the back yard is pretty much dirt) build a fence and so on. 

I hope that all of you get to come visit. The spring here is UNBELIEVABLE they say. I love this town and have made a lot of new friends. I mean hicks are good people too after all. Funny I don't even want to go to NYC I just want to wonder around and learn about this town and the area.

Lots of love....

front door inside

here is the beautiful double front doors. There is this amazing window above that actually opens up (the long horizontal one about the doors) I love it.....Melinda your owl hangs from the door for good luck :)

out of order pics of this old house

Okay here are the last batch. It's a bit all over the place these pics but they give you the general idea and layout. 

House House House

Well let's just say it's really difficult to take flattering pictures of architecture. I tried and this was what I came up with. Everybody has been asking me to send pics so here you go. Remember this is one of 4 floors of my new mansion. These pictures don't really do it justice.

gotta love it!!1