One of the first things I wanted to do after pulling down the shutters was to add some new house numbers to dress the place up and to start it down the mid-century revival path that I have in my head.
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Conveniently, the shutters had left me with two perfectly spaced holes for doing something dramatic. I commandeered a piece of maple from the husband's lumber collection, filled the knot with two part epoxy mixed with a couple drops of black dye and some glitter, so that now it looks like a tiny universe trapped in the wood, stained it a light brown to tone down any future yellowing, put on 3 coats of exterior polyurethane, and threw on the numbers.
That is where the fun began. I had purchased the numbers for the style, not the ease of installation. It wasn't rocket science, but I did wind up buying different screws from Ace to make it easier as I wanted them flush mounted. I also added a cup hook to the bottom of the board because I knew that once I had my new door in place I wouldn't want anything hanging on it. It makes a classy first impression.
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