BEFORE and AFTER - Transformation of the outside

The first photo is the way the house looked the first time we saw it in May 2005 when preparing to move from Georgia.  We looked at older "fixer-upper" houses like this one and we looked at newer houses.  We loved the location of this neighborhood, but really didn't want a fixer-upper because we knew we would be busy with other things.  So, when we came back again in July, this house was still sitting here.  No one wanted it.  But we could see past its ugliness and knew we could make her look much better. The large lot with the private wooded backyard, and the proximity to the park, downtown Knoxville, shopping, and restaurants won us over in the end.  We closed on the house at the end of August 2005. And this is how she looks four long years later. Better, huh?