Our house has 25 year old wooden windows which have lasted pretty long in this wet climate, but their time has come.

After much deliberation, we ordered replacement vinyl windows for all the front windows of our house, and the front door. We figured we’d replace the front of the house this year, and the back next year.

So far, we’ve replaced 4 windows (ground level) and the front door. At this point I think we’ve hit home improvement fatigue and am not eager, or even all that convinced, we can replace the windows upstairs. I mean how do we stand on the front of the roof? It’s a Cape Cod style house, the front is super steep and the windows are in dormers.

Here’s some photos of the work so far:

Inside, we still have some work to do, like replacing the window boxes, ledges, and trim.

It is really satisfying to know we can do this work ourselves, and that we can work together in bad times (like finding all the rot under the front door, the carpenter ants, and having to tear part of the house down to replace rotten wood).

However, I’m wondering if hiring someone to do it, and then leaving for a couple days, would have been equally as satisfying? 😉