We had a bunch of chips laying around and then swatched and then watched the light play with each color. Sara at Four over One helped us find the bold vivid colors that would compliment rather than distract from the house.
My default response of 'paint it purple' was heard and then we moved on to what will be beautiful.
Paint color will go up around October 7th is my guess. I assume the house will be finished around October 16th.
My default response of 'paint it purple' was heard and then we moved on to what will be beautiful.
Paint color will go up around October 7th is my guess. I assume the house will be finished around October 16th.
| Siding | Seaworthy SW7620 |
| Trim in middle of facia | White Duck SW7010 |
| Trim at soffit on porches | White Duck SW7010 |
| Trim at soffit on roof | White Duck SW7010 |
| Corner boards | White Duck SW7010 |
| Window sashes | Sequin SW6394 |
| Window casing | White Duck SW7010 |
| Triangle on gables: | |
| Siding | Seaworthy SW7620 |
| Trim | White Duck SW7010 |
| Fascia | White Duck SW7010 |
| Porch floor | Functional Gray SW7024 |
| Porch railings | White Duck SW7010 |
| Porch pickets | White Duck SW7010 |
| Porch columns | White Duck SW7010 |
| Porch ceilings | Mountain Air SW6224 |
| Steps to porch | Gauntlet Gray SW7019 |
| Trim at bottom of porch (porch fascia) | Functional Gray SW7024 |
| Bead board | Seaworthy SW7620 |
| Upstairs porch railings | White Duck SW7010 |
| Upstairs porch posts | White Duck SW7010 |
| Brick | Gauntlet Gray SW7019 |
| Exterior Doors | Sequin SW6394 |
| Screen Doors | Sequin SW6394 |
| Cement (down) and wood (up) pillar tops | Functional Gray SW7024 |
Picking colors was actually one of the hardest parts of the restoration. Our lovely neighbors have a yellow house, the one across the street is pink, and the crack house is green. As I hope the crack house's days are numbered, I didn't want there to be confusion about which green house was a good place to score whatever whenever. We still get someone every month or so asking if they can rent a room or trying to just walk into the house looking for someone. No need to encourage it.
Pink (neighbor) green (crack), orange (weird), purple (BARNEY), yellow (neighbors), white (currently) were all out. Red is much too harsh/hard. It's a great color, but hard to get right and more suited to a smaller house than ours.
See if you look at the house from straight across the street, it's imposing but not overwhelming. However, you can see the house from a block away since we're at the top of the ridge that runs along downtown. If we painted the house something BRIGHT it would be *that* house. We don't want our Bunny Manse to be *THAT* house.
That leaves us with blues. there are three other blue houses on the street which made me not want to paint it blue, but you know, it wasn't going to be khaki or gray and as you see above we were running out of options.
Then we saw this house on one of our trips to/from Greensboro- it's blue, saturated, and beautiful without being overwhelming.
One day next spring we'll have a little grassy bed and a pretty swept walkway and a little wrought iron fence. It will be wonderful.
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