Before I get into today’s post, I want to tell you about a new little feature Greg added to the blog over the weekend. I personally think it’s pretty awesome, but I don’t know if that’s because I’m code-stupid (and therefore always amazed by Greg’s ninja coding abilities) or if it’s the best thing since sliced bread. Or I’m just biased. So, here’s the deal: If you hover your mouse over a photo in a post, a Pinterest icon will show up in the bottom-right corner. To pin the photo, all you have to do is click the icon. Like this…

Pretty cool, right? We know we’re not the first blog to have added this feature (there are a lot of blogs out there that are way cooler than us), but we hope it will aid your Pinterest addictions and spread more Pinterest love.

Alrighty, back to today’s talk… Last week, in this post, we talked about how we’re planning on sprucing up the front porch. Now that we got rid of the old storm door, we had five things on the to-do list: install a new doorbell button, install a new hanging light fixture, hang a door knocker, install a peephole and buy a new doormat. Over the weekend, we kicked off the to-do list with installing the new doorbell button. Well, Greg did the work, I just stood patiently by with the iPhone taking pictures (my Canon charger hasn’t shown up in the mail yet. Grr!).

He started out by turning off the power to the doorbell. Even if what you’re working with is low-voltage, like a doorbell, it’s better to be safe than sorry. It probably doesn’t give you a jolt but you could accidentally cross some wires and fry the whole system. After it was safe, he removed the old doorbell button to where it looked like this…

Then he attached the wires to the screw terminals on the back of the new doorbell button and screwed them in place…

After that, he just screwed the whole thing into the door molding. Yeah, super easy! Two minutes and ten dollars later, we had a nice, modernized button…

I really like how it coordinates with the door hardware…

Now, time for the door knocker. This was an even easier project, since the new door knocker covered the holes from the one that was hanging on the door before (which the previous owner took with him). All Greg had to do was drill two holes into the door and attach the new door knocker with some dark screws we already had around (the knocker didn’t come with any).

We took one of your suggestions and named him Woodrow (thanks, Dee!).  The details ended up being a tad lighter than I’d imagined, but I don’t mind it. Maybe down the road, if I decide the near-white detail paint is not what I want, we’ll give him a ultra-light coat of some ORB spray paint.

After those changes, the front door is slowly sprucing up little by little…

The real project of the day was supposed to be the installing the new light fixture. When we took it out of the box, the quality was pretty good, but it looked a lot smaller than what I thought it would be. The one we ordered was supposed to be 19” tall, but the one we received was only 13 ¾” tall. Womp, womp.

I was so excited about changing out the light fixture that I tried really, really hard to like it, but truth be told, it was too small. It just didn’t make the statement we were aiming for. Unfortunately, this is where the front door makeover came to a screeching halt. Well, at least until we get the right light fixture in.

As far as the doormat goes, we finally decided to go with the chevron one. We placed the order on Friday, so hopefully it will be coming in later this week or the beginning of next. Fingers crossed.

For now, we’re enjoying Woodrow’s company and trying to make him feel like a part of the family to help him get settled. If you follow us on Instagram, you might have seen that Bentley is beginning to get a tad jealous…

I love this picture because it looks like he’s making a mean face at the door knocker. That, or he’s trying to squint his eyes really hard so he’ll look like a door knocker too. I love our little guy…