A new grand entrance

This house has 3 doors to the outside.  The 'front' door is never used by guests.  It opens into the living room but to get to the deck / door, a guest would have to tromp across the yard.  The sliding door to the back deck also would mean that guests would have to trek across yard to get there.  So, the door that everyone uses, comes in from the garage / parking area.  I call it the Servant's Entrance.

Since the person that comes and goes there the most is me, the name fits.

For a while I have been wanting to redo that entrance to the house and add a little deck area for a sitting area and have the steps come straight up from the garage, which will make navigating that area in the winter a  little easier.

Today it happened.

Ronnie and Roger Petersen (my 2nd cousins) came over from Luck and spent the day.  They are not quite finished, but you can see what a difference it makes.

Before the make over.

Now you can see the sitting area to the left in this picture, and a nice wide stairway into the house.
Once it is all stained the same, it will look very sharp!

It is fun to have Roger and Ronnie here.

They like their sweets so coffee is at 5 to 10am, lunch about noon (they bring their own) and then afternoon coffee is at 10 to 3pm.

I got up early today and made apple crisp and chocolate chip cookies so I would have good sweets for their coffee breaks.  

It is fun to visit and have them here, they do excellent work and they are so reasonable on price.

I love how it looks now and once it has railings and is all stained the same, it is going to look like a grand entrance, no longer just the servant's entrance.