Add the nice weather to a long President's Day weekend, and it means that I've had some time to work on a project.
If you remember from this post in November, Mrs. WW and I decided to do a little work to the outside of our house. The nice half-brick front wall was going to get a little taste of Wrigley.
Mrs. WW planted the ivy.
My job was to make and install the house numbers. I made the numbers in early December, but didn't think I'd be able to paint or install them until the spring. But the warm spell we've been having gave me an early start.
Voila! Yellow numbers have been added to the front of the house. The numbers on the Wrigley Field walls are painted directly to the wall. I didn't want to do something that permanent. Instead, I made mine out of plywood and screwed them into the brick. I used actual pictures of the numbers, blew them up, made patterns, and cut out the pieces. Mine are three fourths the size of the actual numbers.
Now we just need the ivy to grow.
Looks great!!
ReplyDeleteBut Joe Morgan wants to know when you'll be adding "Banks Blvd." under the windows. Gotta catch all the trash from the Bleacher Bums...and of course, all those extra, barely there Ernie Banks home runs.
We're going to need an update once that ivy fills out!
ReplyDeleteHard core, man! Curious what the neighbors are saying.
ReplyDeleteThis is going to look amazing! Can't wait to see the progress.
ReplyDeleteIf you're going to go, might as well go all the way. I second the nod for the baskets.
ReplyDeleteNice job on the numbers. It looks really good!
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