Beef up your windows & I'm featured!

I'm featured at It's so Very Cheri today for my lollipop post last week! Thank you Cheri!
Please visit Cheri, she has lots of great posts featured today.



Here's the link to the lollipops, in case you missed it! ;)
Lollipops!

Now back to today's post:

Where's the beef?

That's what I asked when we bought our new house.

Where's the architectural detail?

Don't get me wrong, I love the house,

but there was nothing striking about it. 

We bought it for the space, lay-out and location.

We had spent many years working on our first house and I was a little dis-enchanted, to say the least, with a house that had not been changed since it was built.

We lived here for awhile and I thought about the

things that bothered me.

Top of the list:

It lacked warmth and coziness the 2 "must haves"!

We are still working to achieve the warmth and coziness we desire, but we have made progress.

One of the very first things we did was beef up the windows with simple stock trim and paint.

This is what the window trim looked like when we moved in...pretty standard and boring.

Here they are now. More substantial.

To me, they have a Williamsburg look to them.

We built up the tops of the frames with a flat 1 x 3 and small brick molding mitered around the top and sides.

Do you see me taking this picture in the

window reflection? Oops!

Have a  happy day ya'll!