Curb Appeal: House Numbers

One of the best things you can do for emergency personnel is to have house numbers that can be found and read easily.


When we bought this house, this is what the house numbers looked like:

Falling off, rusty nails, really trendy golden brass (woohoo). What's even better, you couldn't see them hardly at all from the street, because they blended so well with the siding:

Oh yeah. Good thing we haven't needed an ambulance yet.


There are some really beautiful house numbers out there. But! Since I'm on a budget (the first year after buying a house is always a tight one, for some reason - read: Down Payment), I just got some basic black numbers from Lowe's. Each one was just under $4, so for a whopping $16, I completely updated my numbers. Curb appeal, check. Allowing people (and emergency workers, if necessary) to find my house easily, check.

Look at that contrast! No more yellow on yellow!

And someday, I'll get some really cool house numbers.


For the moment, these will do. Although Doug says the numbers are too close together, so I may get to space them out a little better. Not interested in doing it today, though!