Brick path and front of house - before and after

Just before we started on the house renovation, we decided to do up our front garden, a little bit of an odd order I know, but at the time we thought we wouldn't be doing an extension for another couple of years.

These before photos also show the old brick on the front of the house (which hid the much preferred weatherboard)...............

Looking from the front porch.......

My daughter admires the new side fence and the cement in preparation for the brick path....

And now (Hubby painting a door recently). I love that the lavender pokes through the fence.....

From the front porch......

We have planted magnolias along the side fence, which are slow growing but love the flowers.....

This picture shows that the bed near the house needs work and the now exposed weatherboard needs painting and sanding, something for the next few months......

Hope you all had a great weekend and got to enjoy the outdoors like we did.

Before and after - brick to weatherboard

Stage two of our build, the rear extension has started, well the demolition part anyway.

Before

Our brick has been removed to expose weatherboard and already I think the house looks better, even with the weatherboard being dirty (well if you use a bit of imagination of how it will be with new deck, cleaned and painted).

After

Our house is weatherboard house built in the 1950s and then in the 70s someone put brick cladding on it which in my opinion is nowhere near as appealing. This now exposed weatherboard is also going to be removed for newer board and our extension will be done in weatherboard to match.
Anyway the thing we can't get over is already this few days of demolition has caused arguments with our building company who were trying to claim they didn't know the weatherboard was there and wanted to charge us extra to remove it.

To cut a long story short I am happy to say we managed to prove that they did know, we had e-mails about it and so they will not be removing the contract variation they were trying to make us pay. So lesson learnt - keep everything in writing and stick to your guns!