I grew up on a dairy farm in N.E.Ohio. We had a huge old farmhouse with 7BR and a #2 galvanized tub and chamber pots for a bathroom, + the little house out back...LOL The basement had a dirt floor and stone walls. There was two 4'x4'x25' bins, one along the east wall and the second running parallel with a 3' walkway where we stored 10tons of potatoes + pumpkins, squash, and apples. A row of 18 fifty gallon barrels filled with apple cider, which provided sweet cider for about 4 to 6 weeks, then hard cider for the men all winter & spring and apple vinegar for the canning season the next year. The south wall had shelves where we stored 2000 mason canning jars filled with every fruit and veggie imaginable + about 10 varieties of pickles and home canned pork sausage balls. Huge smoked hams (35-40lbs) hung on hooks from the ceiling along with sides of bacon and smoked sausages. Every morning when we finished milking the cows we would bring a 5gallon pail of fresh whole milk to the house (6-8% butterfat). AT the barn we had a small masonary building called the Milk house. In the milk house there was a pit 4' wide, 3'deep and 14' long with a pipe coming in from the spring on one end and a drain pipe on the opposite end. We stored up to 18 milk cans of milk in that pit overnite, then after the milking in the morning we hauled all the milk cans to a local dairy. We didn't have need of a butter churn because the dairy gave us 4lbs of butter every day free. (I used to love riding the truck to the dairy because we could sneak in the freezers and grab an ice cream bar..LOL) Twenty loaves of bread were baked every Thursday along with a couple pies and yeast dinner rolls. Until I was 13 years old we didn't even have a refrigerator and didn't see any need of getting one. Now the doomsday profits would tell you that all that fresh milk, smoked meats and non-refrigerated food will kill you, but I am 60yrs old and never even saw a doctor from the time i discharged out of the Air Force in 1972 until two months ago. My Grandfather was 68 when he passed away, worked the farm with horses every day, and he had never been to a doctor in his life. go figure!

Maybe the door would be good in red? But I always think that. Still.... Or how about a teal or soldier blue door? It's a cute, cute house. Maybe that horizontal rod going across the storm door is removable. I've had storms like that. If you could take the cross piece off, it would let the nice wood door show better. And the light that awmo3 posted would look great on your house. A variegated red-twig dogwood would be good, maybe on the left hand corner. They have nice bright red stems in the winter. (Oh-oh....there I go again with the red.) I'm in zone 4. My dogwoods are the nicest color I can have in the winter. Otherwise it's pretty blah in the middle of winter. You might also consider some Annabelle hydrangeas. They are so pretty in the summer and have a nice old-fashioned look. If you want to, you can leave the big pom-pom flowers on all winter and cut them back in the early spring. The blooms turn rusty brown color and it gives you something out there in the winter. And also one or two small evergreen shrubs would be nice out there so you have some dark green color during the winter. Then plant some daylillies and some asiatic lillies for summer color. If you expand those planting beds out a ways so they are deeper, and make them a curvy shape, that will add to the look too. If you leave the stained porch as it is, you could get some golden or medium brown cedar mulch for the garden and that will tie the porch color into the landscaping.

I need to start learning diy! With a 15 month old and full time job it’s challenging but I’m sure super doable if i stop making excuses! He has agreed to move the curtain up and tv down so that’s a start!!! (Not sure when we’ll get this done but hopefully soon) I still don’t have decor ideas. I got rid of all the other decor we were dragging from place to place and just want to start fresh. I want modern farmhouse but coastal if that makes sense. Someone said our house looks boho style as is? Which i wasn’t going for. I like those side tables since we clearly need some in the living room those would probably be our best bet. I think we need a different/bigger rug? And maybe change the tv stand?

Well heavy dripping isnt a good thing, but, the stipple from the rollers is normal. You do not have to sand between coats of paint. What do you mean by roller marks, other than the normal stippling, that happens when you use a roller. Are they using rollers meant for smooth walls, that gives less stippling. Rollers should not be the cheap type either, get the very best rollers. Did they primer the walls, wondering why its taking 3 coats of paint. New paint has good coverage, and 2 coats should be enough. I would never do less than 2 coats.