After 10 years, it's coming time to replace or rehab some things around this house. A few years back, I noticed some of the pins popping out of the window shutters, and knew they were going to have to be fixed or replaced. I was a little lax on doing it for one, because I wasn't sure if I was going to buy new ones, or just take them down and paint them. I decided to have them painted (they weren't cracked, just faded), but then had to find a handyman who could do that. I finally found someone, and the rehabbed shutters are going to give the front of the house a much needed face lift!
So my guy came and took them off, after dodging bats, birds and wasps, it was dicey, but he got the job done. Yeah, that is what was living behind all 20 shutters on the front of the house! I couldn't believe there were bats behind them. I knew the birds were there from all the noise they were making and dive bombing me every time I walked out front, crazy birds. They were building their nests behind the broken shutters. I will report that NO, there were not any eggs in any of the nests! This was a touchy situation for me, I don't like doing these types of things, disturbing wildlife. I do put birdhouses out for the birds, to keep them safe from the wandering cats in the neighborhood, as well as providing seed for them, I love the birds! But when the house starts to get damaged from them, well, they have to know who's boss. Everything has to be power washed from all the bird droppings, the stone, the windows and the screens, it's a lot of work I am not looking forward to.
So here are some before and after pictures of the front of the house. Shutters before my guy took them down, and after, the bare front of the house. As you can see the shutters were faded from the sun and had to be painted.
With the shutters...
And the house really is bare without them. Shutters do dress up a house.
Some of them down, and ready to be cleaned and painted.
I let my handyman know I did not want a shiny finish on my shutters, I wanted a matte/flat finish in black. The color is Tricorn Black by Sherwin Williams in an exterior resilience paint. Hopefully I won't have to do this painting thing for awhile!
Shutters going back up after being painted, and secured better than the first time. Hopefully no more condos of birds, bats and bees behind them.
All done and looking beautiful again! A little paint goes a long way.
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