{Our Home with Aluminum Interlock Roofing and Benjamin Moore Golden Mist Exterior}

Now, here comes the final REVEAL! Our completed home with the Aluminum Interlock Metal Roofing and the Benjamin Moore Golden Mist Exterior... We have waited long enough, for having better weather to take photos, but that never happened. Only now our balcony has been completed as well. As I write this, not yet painted by the very same professional painters that did our entire exterior of the home and the gazebo. When that is done, you will get more photos from the back of our home with the balcony as well.

Photo has been taken on June 24, you see how gray the sky looks; pregnant with rain...

LOTS of rain we have had.

We got so lucky for having the roof installed in 4 days with perfect weather and also for the painters we had 3 weeks of perfect weather.

Needless to say that our lawn is GREEN... but soggy!

The Benjamin Moore Golden Mist color works perfect with the Aluminum Slate Roofing in Aged Copper color. We did our very best to lower our Carbon Footprint and it pays off!

The shutters are in a Chrome Green and the windows and all the Vintage Woodworks gingerbread wood trim, balusters and posts are in white.

What do you say?

The indoor shutters are not fully open... 

The white hibiscus are blooming in front of our home.

Now let's walk around the corner towards the bay window area.

This photo I made on August 6, the same gray sky and very pregnant with rain.

Our Speckie girl followed me, as they all usually do – like a doggy.

This is back to June 24, with the white petunias just having been planted inside our Fiberglass Window Boxes.

There was so much to do after the painters did pressure wash the house.

Next they caulk it and painted it with two layers of Benjamin Moore paint in Golden Mist.

We had to take all the Window Boxes off the walls, as it had to be bare.

Than putting them back on, filling them with potting soil and finding plants in summer time...

A little bit closer for the picture.

Our prostrate gardenias are blooming too.

Now you can see the gazebo coming in view as well and that too has a new  aluminum 'aged copper' roof.

All our trees are so lush this summer with that much rain.

More view of he gazebo.

Below the large dogwood tree, no grass is growing in the shade...

Now it is pure mud!

One last view of the Benjamin Moore Golden Mist with Chrome Green for the shutters.

You can see here that the balusters are still not on the balcony. 

I will show that later with the complete back side and in another post also you get to see our gazebo.

All those planter boxes had to come off the walls, and back on...

Our youngest cat-man 'Smokey' walks here on the driveway.

I found him up in the magnolia tree next to the driveway to the left (not visible here).

Somebody must have put him out there. A poor kitten; literally skin over bone.

He was trying to steal some morsels from our cats but there was not much left...

Smokey is part Persian and we got him back to good health. He was so sick at first.

Cowards that put him out like that and they had even tried to kill him as he was so tender on his back and also his tail. He barely could 'talk' and his throat was very sensitive to touching.

God knows what this poor soul went through before I did hear him, thinking there was a hawk rustling those magnolia leaves...

That was so far the update on our home and on Smokey!

Related links:

{Our Interlock Aluminum Aged Copper Slate Roofing} | previous post by me

{Our Interlock Aluminum Slate Roofing Being Installed} | previous post by me
Never Re-Roof Again | link with full info, scroll down for reading more
Interlock Roofing | Manufacturer of Lifetime Roofing Systems. Never re-roof again
{Energy Efficient GREEN Roofing Arrived} | previous post by me
{Our Home on March 24 of 2013} | previous post by me showing the BEFORE
{Fighting the Water + Scanning Slides} | previous post by me showing the result of gutters running over...
Flower Framers of Cincinnati | Source for Fiberglass Window Boxes

{Our Wooden Balusters Repurposed}

When renovating the home there comes a point where you look at certain things that become trash and others that we still can REPURPOSE. Such was the case with our Vintage Woodworks Balusters. Several were rotting away, while others were still in perfect condition. 

Let's have a look...

Husband Pieter created this very romantic bridge across our creek, using what was left from the Vintage Woodworks Balusters on our Balcony.

This photo is from August 1, after he had painted the balusters and treated the bridge with a wood preservative.

This was on May 11, the Interlock Aluminum Roof by Interlock Metal Roofing had already been installed.

Next project was to strip the balcony before the painters would start pressure washing the entire house.

Off came the partly rotten balusters with their top and bottom rails attached.

From a different angle... Those rails with balusters measure 12 ft each!

Husband Pieter on the ladder, taking that corner post down...

Our gas tank will also be moved, in winter time, when it is no longer that hot for working outside.

A new concrete platform in front of the chimney, will hold it and there its color also blends in better.

Our Jasmine pots will go onto the old concrete platform. We learned a lot about mud splashing up on all our flower pots. Having concrete for placing them on, will avoid most of the soiling with mud.

One baluster with rails attached is down...

Taking it apart for REPURPOSING...

On the rain side, it is really rot...

How many times Pieter did repair it with epoxy over the years, but we had to give up.

New polyurethane balusters and rails with posts got ordered in Texas from Vintage Woodworks, so we never again will face any rotten wood.

Now, let me walk you across the lawn towards the creek, into our wood garden...

Look what Pieter built from the remaining good balusters and posts!

That looks quite romantic doesn't it?

Vintage Woodworks balusters and all three corner posts repurposed!

Our creek looks messy still from all the drift wood that came floating with the many floodings of last month.

For weeks, Pieter could not finish this bridge, as it was with the lower parts sitting IN the water...

Below post you find a short 1:29 minute video, taken with my iPhone on July 13.

These photos are from August 1.

Don't be fooled by its size; the center section measures 3.66 m or 12 ft + the two slanted sections...

It really looks beautiful to me.

What do you say?

Aha, we crossed the bridge and looking now towards our newly painted home. Your very first view of it on the driveway side. More to follow soon!

How many leaves got knocked down by all those thunderstorms accompanied by heavy rains...

We got very murky water, due to a damaged water pipe, two streets down.

On Saturday we were without water for quite some time!

Looking down from the bridge.

An entire beach from white sand has been build up from all the flooding.

Pieter had this fine sand for free for redoing our washed concrete path towards the gazebo.

Just hauling it on the wheel barrow.

In the back you see the huge pipe that goes underneath the road.

Since that pipe for drinking water got damaged and all the mud run into the creek, we have not had enough rain to wash it out again.

A beach with sand, still wet and muddy...

Lots of weeds growing but we cannot even mow the lawn near the creek as it is way too soggy!

Hope you enjoyed our bridge from our wooden balusters being REPURPOSED.

Next post you will get to see our finished home...

Related link:
Rainy July Day in Georgia II - iPhone upload | short Youtube video showing you the bridge in high water
{Our New 3rd Bridge} | previous post by me

{World Cat-Day 2013}

According to Cute Calender, August 8 is World Cat Day. Let's hope that more and more people, world wide will take full responsibility of their felines. That includes neuter and spay them in order to limit the problems that already do exist because of irresponsible pet owners. May there also be more respect for animals in general, not only felines. There is still way too much animal cruelty in this world! May more felines end up living like our 5 siblings...

Here they are, only five months old at that time. All five of them lounging in our bedroom on the cotton mat.

We lost Sacha-girl, the one with the white underbelly...

Here they are again, eating breakfast; almost two years old now. Sacha-girl is at the very end. The one in front of her is Barty who is three years older.

Nice family and so well behaved!

To us it is such a joy.

We recall the UPS man one winter day coming into our garage and all pet beds were occupied by our felines... He laughed at the sight.

To us they are a treasure!

Do you have cats?

Or Friend Cats that lounge around the house...?

Peekaboo... look under that left chair. Friend Cat is lounging against the gazebo step.

And... you just caught a glimpse of our newly painted exterior!