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By Natalie
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.

SidingSeaworthy SW7620
Trim in middle of faciaWhite Duck SW7010
Trim at soffit on porchesWhite Duck SW7010
Trim at soffit on roofWhite Duck SW7010
Corner boardsWhite Duck SW7010
Window sashesSequin SW6394
Window casingWhite Duck SW7010
Triangle on gables:
SidingSeaworthy SW7620
TrimWhite Duck SW7010
FasciaWhite Duck SW7010
Porch floorFunctional Gray SW7024
Porch railingsWhite Duck SW7010
Porch picketsWhite Duck SW7010
Porch columnsWhite Duck SW7010
Porch ceilingsMountain Air SW6224
Steps to porchGauntlet Gray SW7019
Trim at bottom of porch (porch fascia)Functional Gray SW7024
Bead boardSeaworthy SW7620
Upstairs porch railingsWhite Duck SW7010
Upstairs porch postsWhite Duck SW7010
BrickGauntlet Gray SW7019
Exterior DoorsSequin SW6394
Screen DoorsSequin SW6394
Cement (down) and wood (up) pillar topsFunctional 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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