Well, you don’t have to be jealous because the porch railings are not freshly painted :-) .... they’re vinyl. However, we did power wash the porch this fall, including the railings. My SIL had a small, portable pressure washer & it worked well, so mom got one for herself & that is what we used. I think this is what we have:
Personally, I’m all for paying someone to do the whole house this coming year .... there is a lot of the house we just can’t reach. We also got only what was most visible - the front of the house, one long side & another short side, front of an addition. The rest of the house is still growing all sorts of “things” of a gray/green variety.
Bluebird house is a “Nature’s Way Bird Products CWH3 Cedar Bluebird Box House, 12’’ X 7.5’’ X 8.125’’, Dark Wood” & it was $18.46 on Amazon.
Great price on the bird house - for cedar! I’ll go look and add it to my ever=growing wish list.
We bought the paint and have free labor from Beau’s Foster Son who owes him quite a bit of labor v. ‘loans.’ He’s doing a great job, but lives 3 hours away and it RAINED about every 2 days all summer, so the weather prevented him from being 100% done this year. But, there’s hope for next year.
Life wouldn’t be the same if we didn’t have a few unfinished projects all going on at once around here!
I did get my gutter across the front of the porch and the downspout put together for the rain barrel that’s going off the corner of the house. With the new metal roof, tons of water flows off the house now and I don’t want to miss a free drop of it! :)