I spent part of this weekend pruning. I ended up filling the entire green waste can and didn’t get close to finishing. I took a picture of the bushes in the front. It cracks me up. At least half our house looks lived in!
Half-pruned
I haven’t been updating because I’ve been so tired after getting all the work done that I just haven’t had the energy. And now I have a backlog of photos so I’m going to try to break it up.
My parents came to visit this weekend which was great! I was in the middle of TSP-ing the walls in the back bedroom, and I was more than happy to take a break. I was really happy they’d taken the time to come visit and it was fun showing them the house. I’m pretty sure they think we’re insane now that they’ve seen it, but I’m also pretty sure my insanity is not news.
Small paint swatches
So I’ll start off with the quickest updates. We’re trying more paint colors on the exterior of the house. The house is starting to look pretty patchwork at this point. However, we narrowed it down to three colors from there and tried them in bigger swatches. And now it’s narrowed down to two! Which is your favorite, the deep blue at the bottom middle (Benjamin Moore - van deusen blue), the blue green on the left side under the window (Sherwin Williams - Studio Blue Green), or the olive green on the right(Fuller O’Brein - custom color)?
Large paint swatches
Eli and I spent the majority of the weekend working on the house. All the carpet is out, the tack strips have been removed (those things are EVIL) and staples have been pain-stakingly pulled out.
The Carpet-less hallway
I’m up to my ears in paint chips. We want to paint the living room, hallway, and both bedrooms before we take out the carpet. And we can’t move in until we’ve taken out the carpet, so I’m trying to figure out paint colors asap!
Do we go cottage, do we go bungalow, I still haven’t decided. I guess it’s paint and it’s not that difficult to change later.
So my question to you all is:
Do you let paint names influence you? For instance, would you choose a yellow named “daddy-o” or would you prefer a yellow named “pismo dunes” since you lived near the Pismo dunes? Limerick Lime or Asparagus? Or are you focused entirely on the color?
I’ve been reading Bungalow Colors: Exteriors, and House Colors: Exterior Colors by Style of Architecture along with about another billion books and sources for exterior colors. However, these two actually had a couple examples I liked!
I scanned them in using the scanner on campus which isn’t spectacular, but at least it works.
From Bungalow Colors, this is probably my favorite color scheme of all (it looks better in the book):
