Who's Got a New Front Door?!

Okay, I've been a bad blogger. My last post was 3 weeks ago! But in my defense, a lot has been going on.

First this happened:

Yup, I graduated! My family came out to see the big day. 

Then, this happened:

Eric and I took a trip to Iceland! I'll post again about Iceland soon. :)

But what has been happening on the home improvement front? Not a whole lot actually, but I do have some projects from a while back that I haven't shared with you yet. As a bit of background, the two windows on the south side of our house were starting to rot away. In addition, the exterior doors in the house were showing wear, not to mention that they leaked in cold air like you would not believe in the winter. So... cue project window and door replacement.

Starting with the windows, (of course with my dad helping doing almost all the work) there was a lot of work on a ladder. 

We ended up having to remove some of the siding so that we could get the new windows in and taking a trip to Home Depot to get some new weatherproof material to put around the exterior of the new frames. Adding these two difficulties, we were pounding and hammering away until long past dark... hopefully our neighbors don't hate us! The end result looks good as new:

Okay, on to the doors. First came the door between the garage and house (sorry, I son't have a lot of pics of this one). It went something like this:

Then came the front door (this one is definitely my favorite). Eric actually picked out this door and I was so impressed with his choice! Remember, we started with this:

 

The door actually had a little vertical blind on it when we first moved in, but that didn't last too long. 

And then the door was gone! (that couldn't be me standing around, could it?)

Here is the new door! It is amazing how much it brightens up the entryway!

My dad added the exterior trim boards back on:

... and installed the door knob:

I added a few details on the outside: (a pretty mat from Eric's sis Amanda and a $3 garage sale bench that I stained to look good as new)

Here's how it looks now (sorry about the weird light reflected on the door - it really is just a solid shade of white):

What's next for this area? Well, I don't think I mentioned it yet, but we got some hail damage from a storm a while back, so we are getting a new roof and new siding! Of course, this makes me most excited about choosing a new color for the exterior of the house. I'm currently thinking a silver grey with bright white accents and trim and a navy door. Do you think that would match with the reddish-brown brick in the pic above? Any other ideas for exterior colors?