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The painters came on Saturday and were like rockstars. The house is done! Almost. Maybe. There are a couple of spots that I wish they’d painted the trim color, and I only noticed on Sunday. I knew something was bothering me about the front, and that’s what it was. Too much gray. Need some trim color to break it up. But still…it looks amazing. What a transformation!
I could watch that over and over and over again.
So much better!
Okay, I know yesterday’s pictures weren’t exactly dramatic, but wait’ll you see the ones I took last night!
I took them at twilight so you could see better.
That’s paint! On the left side of the house! And on the porch, but you can’t really see it.
Now I need opinions. I’m going to buy some new numbers (right now they’re on top of the garage doors under the porch, so barely visible) but I’m not sure where best to put them. What do you think? They’ll probably look like this:
Tomorrow, I’ll have some really great pictures to post. Here’s a teaser:
And don’t be too sad, but it looks like this series isn’t going to be as long as I’d hoped. The painters said they’re going to finish tomorrow! Saturday! That’s five days after starting!
Because, why not?, I’m going to post pictures every day of the painting progress. I apologize in advance – these are not terribly exciting, but today they’re actually going to be painting! When I went outside this morning, I saw these:
That’s two giant buckets of Elephant Skin by Behr. Worst paint name ever, btw. Yet kind of perfect.
Slight progress!
We’ve been in our house for nine years and the day I’ve dreamed of for so long is finally here…we’re painting the outside of it! It’s in terrible shape, but it’s such a huge expense that we’ve been putting it off, but finally, we’re having it done! So exciting!
Here’s a before picture I took on Tuesday. One would like to think I mean some Tuesday in late December because, yes, those are Christmas lights hanging from the porch. We are so classy. (Oh man, I could have kept my mouth shut. Just realized the tree is blocking the porch in this photo.)
Yesterday the power-washing and sanding started. Eeep!
Here is George pointing to the garage doors and saying we should paint them like the TARDIS doors. What you can’t hear is me saying, “no, dear.” I’m such a meanie.
Can you believe that tree out front was the size of a pencil when I planted it in 2005? Crazy. And maybe could use a little trimming. Hmm.
Anyhoo, the house is going to be a dark gray, the trim will be a creamy white, and the front door will be red.
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