Ten Years: Before and After
Happy House-a-versary to us! Ten years it has been since we moved from a small Portland garden to this two-acre piece of land in Saint Helens. Every month or so I receive a Redfin real estate email with our current house value and it always includes a photo from the original 2015 listing. It reminded me of what it used to look like and as it has been a long while since I've done a before-and-after post, I used the actual listing photos to recreate what it looks like now. That is my inspiration for this week's post, ten years in on this place we call home. The before photos were taken in September 2015 and are therefore much sunnier and more colorful, while the after photos were taken this week on what was a wet, cold day. So, beautiful sunny September vs. gloomy wet December. Still, you get the idea even making such comparisons in different seasons. From fancy pants real estate photos to what it looks like today, here we go: This was the very first photo that lured us in and m...
