casacaudill: June 2020

Sunday, June 7, 2020

After my last post, I went through the Benjamin Moore historic color palette and then drove through town looking at other historic houses from the same era to make sure I hadn't missed any potential color combinations for our exterior. These are the results of that exercise.

Caldwell Green

Coventry Gray

Newburg Green

Knoxville Gray

Jamestown Blue

Hale Navy

There are colors we are certainly leaning toward, but every day our mood changes and the order of preference seems to change. While we love the Hale Navy, one worry is that it might be too much. Our kitchen is predominantly that color and I just don't want our house to be flat. Like, is it overboard?

As an aside, I love this sketch I created in Photoshop. I may plug in our current colors and get a print out of it to hang up somewhere so we can always remember the glowing gold that our house was when we bought it. (Like we could ever forget.)

Thursday, June 4, 2020

We're in the process of getting a new roof put on the house, and in the course of the work, we've discovered there was a lot more rot to the maroon fascia and trim on our house than we knew about, which resulted in the crew needing to replace much of it around the roof line. We've also noticed several boards rotted beyond repair on the yellow portion of the house. I'm a great believer in restoration when possible, but like I said ... beyond repair. What this means is we're in the market for new cedar siding and an all over paint job sooner rather than later (we knew we were going to have to tackle this at some point ... we just didn't want that point to be now). And that means I can start thinking about COLOR SCHEMES. I've made no secret of the fact that our McDonald's colored house wouldn't be my first choice when it comes to a home's exterior, and since we have to completely redo it anyway ... instead of just going with what was, we may as well get what we want. With that in mind, I've been playing around in photoshop to come up with a few options (please forgive my rudimentary skills in this area). As you'll notice, I've kept the maroon trim in each option. It turns out I rather like it.

Navy