She's Pretty On the Outside

My ugly house has been transformed and transfigured into something truly gorgeous.

 First, I have made a decision on my counter tops (special thanks to mom, Sara, Summer, Alison, Aurora, My Bub, and Pomogranit)

I would have put the other stone options I had except that I deleted them in an effort to narrow down the choices, so all I have is this one, who was in 1st place until I painted my cabinets and realized I need something bright and subtle and not bold because I err on the side of bold pretty consistently.

So pretty! So my style, but a little dark and honestly I need a little calm.

More close ups of my landscape in case you missed last week's poorly advertised blog post:

 My back yard! Those are needle flowers on the bottom left and just to update you, they REFUSE to stay alive for me! I said "low maintenance plants, please" and the home depot people said "THIS ONE!" and it makes me feel bad about my already feeble gardening skills.

 Master Bedroom window - Jasmine & spray roses! Other window is gardenias (my favorite)

 My (not connected) gas meter - it has problems!

Some firecracker plants and climbing jasmine pre-installation on my back fence:

 And the front yard!!!

This is the mom patch because she loves it:

Close up of the babes:

 BUT THE BEST PART IS MY FRONT DOOR. It is as well conceived as I anticipated:

I can't even. The last picture shows the columns stained all one color so they're happy and then we added gutters (right before the rain! nothing ever happens on time! Omg!)

 Also the kittens are BIG! They need to be adopted! Please adopt my kittens!

Also just a note: