Colorful Cottage Makeover

Donald and Lashonda Williams love their house, but the look is not quite right.

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After

There's no landscaping and the house has a mundane paint color. With some new paint, attractive shutters, some salvage yard finds and a little planting, this cottage house can discover its curb appeal. Meghan Adkins plans to give the Williams' house a cottage feel and incorporate a lot of the family's vivacious attitude into the project.

Before

Here's how they accomplish it:

Replace the awning over the front window with some cottage-style shutters
Build new, more aesthetically pleasing railings to replace the existing pipe
Install and stain a salvage yard door and a phantom screen door
Replace the old lights on the porch and in the front yard with new, sleek lights
Paint over the blue and white with beige, moss green and white
Plant lavender and rosemary, along with some annuals in the new window boxes and a garden box along the front of the house
Replace an old, cracked driveway with a brand new one
Finishing touches: faux stained glass for the porch, a new mailbox and some new house numbers