September 21, 2008
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Color Choosin’ Sunday
Oh dear friends, where did you go? I feel so abandoned and now must make that house color decision without all of my Xanga friend’s input and opinions!!! LOL
Jesse detested (no . . . vehemently HATED) the forest green. Maybe most of you did too, and that’s why no one gave much feedback after I said I liked it!!!!
So, we drove around neighborhoods in our area and looked at houses. We even looked at new houses in a new subdivision – a waste of time. It looked like they got a bargain price on a million gallons of “gold sand” colored paint and every single house in the new neighborhood was painted identically.
Jesse and I threw around the idea of a light charcoal. Jesse pointed out that he liked the darker taupe. It’s not a dark brown, despite the paint sample, but has a bit of olive in it. We have that color in an occasionally brick, here and there, that’s an almost identical match. It will warm up the house from the country blue (the current color) and hopefully, with the white trim, will be striking and not so blah. You DO know “blah” is a color, right? LOL
So here is our final answer:
Behr Paint’s “Shadow Ridge” – the darker color. In the first picture you can see one of those dark bricks that is almost a perfect match. Most of our bricks have an orange-ish cast to them, rather than red.
My next step: I’m getting off of here and headed to Home Depot to buy the paint. Two 5 gallon buckets of exterior paint, which runs about $150 per bucket. Then, 1 bucket of white @ $150. That puts the paint investment at $450 plus tax. We will be able to take advantage of their 6 months interest free financing on their credit card. Six months to pay out $500 is doable – I guess. Everything is so expensive right now, but to have our entire house’s exterior painted for just under $1000 is too good of a deal to pass up. So . . . we’ll make it work.
Off of here to Home Depot. The paint guy should be here tomorrow to get started.
I feel a competitive spirit rising in me to finish the guest room before he finishes the entire exterior of our house AND the girls’ bathroom!!!
Comments (7)
Should we place bets? Just kidding! It’s hard picking out paint colours…not one of my favorite things to do. I wouldn’t say I hate the forest green but I do like the olivey greens better. Have fun! ~Dawne
ohhhh, sorry I didn’t check in yesterday
…..but I love the color you chose. I do love the green too. It’s so hard to choose, but I can’t wait for a picture of the finished house. We did some do-overs in our bedroom and I’ll be taking pictures to post. It was so much fun. Be blessed, Jill
Hmmm… I actually liked the green better, but I would never intentionally pick any kind of brown.
RYC: I didn’t figure a lot of folks would understand all that I wrote, but one of my friends is actually a judge & I knew if she read it (which she usually does), she’d want particulars.
Besides, I like to write it all down so *I* don’t forget…. that seems to happen w/ a little more frequency than I’d like.
Sorry I was too busy and left you down. I hate the forest green! My dad loved it and every building on his place was painted green in some shade or other! I am a blue or red person! LOL
Be sure to get before and after pictures! Will this guy clean the paint off of the windows when he is done? I can just see you out there scrubbing away with a razor blade!
Have fun painting!
Tina
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No windows. Just the frame around them. He’ll even be rebuilding the window framing where one of the persons before us allowed their dog/s to chew the wood. Jesse surprised me tonight and said the painter said he’d paint the guest room (the one *I’m* working on) for $50 and the hallways for $50. I hate to spend an extra $100, but one room and two hallways? ? ? mighty tempting!!!
Then again, I’d lose the satisfaction of a job well done – by myself.
WOW! You guys are really in a painting mood! I like the color! I want to see before and after pictures!
I liked the Shadow Ridge the best! Sorry I didn’t respond yesterday… we had a house full of company.