Painting Our House

It's been quite a while since we painted the outside of our house

Of course, we had no paint can left or loose boards we could match

Off to the paint store for samples

Way too light

None of the sample cards looked anywhere near the same color 

 So I took a picture of the house

 and close up to see if I could get a little closer.

 I moved down into the gold brown tones

 and decided 'Corn Stalk' was as close as we were going to get

The wall on the far right is painted with the new color

to see how much different it is.  You can see where the

downspout was with the old color under it

 This is the back of the house in the shade,  looks pretty yellow

The strip on the left is the old color and the part of the house 

with the windows is the new color

 Here's a close up.  The old color almost looks green 

 It's a lot yellower than I wanted

 But it will do for another 10 years or so  :o)

 The bedroom walls on the right are done, the living room 

on the left isn't done yet

Here is another view of that too

5 gallons of paint used so far.  We're going back

for 2 more gallons to see if that will finish it off.

We only did the front and the back this year, next 

year we will do the two ends.  I'll take a picture of 

it when we get it all done so you can see the end with the front.

And, of course, the white trim needs to be done badly