Our New Pillars

I've mentioned here and there about our project we have going in the front of our new house.

We decided to add pillars to our porch.  I LOVE LOVE LOVE the way it turned out.  It is not totally done yet, but here are some before and after pictures.

I love the way the stone/slate looks...

I know this picture is from September but just to show you what our porch looked like before....

when we bought it...

we took out the spindles and just had the skinny white poles...

This is what we have now...it gives it a whole new look...the slate is on the bottom and then cedar on top...not sure yet what/if I'm going to do anything with the cedar - paint/stain/color etc...?  what do you think?

we also have a new mailbox with the matching slate.... we just had a plastic one before...(I don't have a pic of that)...

I like the 'woodsy' yet modern look it gives our house...

and we decided to line the whole bottom/front of our house in the slate/stone...a little bit more money but totally worth it...

It's not done yet, but almost...