Our little old house, painted!

(Lost most of my pictures when I switched from WP to blogger. Slowly working on putting them back, but it's a massive undertaking so please forgive the broken image links!)

Well, inspired by this, we painted our house last week.

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We didn't use these same colors, but ones very similar.  We went with Sandy Hook from Benjamin Moore for the body, just like above, Wythe Blue (Benjamin Moore) for the door, and then...I have no idea what we used for the trim and shutters.  Eek!  I picked out the paint chips, gave them to our painter and then completely forgot to jot down the names.  All I know is that the shutter color is the same paint chip as Chelsea Gray (Benjamin Moore), but it's the darkest charcoal from that paint chip, and the trim came from the same paint chip as White Dove (Benjamin Moore), but it's the lightest cream on that paint chip (I'm 80% sure it's Simply White).  :)

Though we really loved the other ideas, particularly the blue with wood door, we went with this one for several reasons.  First of all, in terms of resale value, we felt this was the best option.  Secondly, the wood door was going to set us back close to $1000 when all was said and done, and we decided we would really like this color scheme and could use that $1000 on other projects, like finishing the basement instead.

In the end, we're very happy we picked what we did.  I love it.  It's totally my style.  And I loved the door so much that we went back to Benjamin Moore and got a couple gallons and I started painting our living room Wythe Blue.  Pictures to come!

So without further adieu, the before:

And the afters.  Picture a charcoal roof to match, hopefully coming soon.  Our roof is in desperate need of replacement and we have an insurance adjuster coming today, so fingers crossed we got approved for a new roof today.  The red-toned roof is going to drive me a little crazy in the mean time.

Here was our entry way before:

And here it is now:

Our landscaping is the next big goal, but we won't even start on that 'til spring.  And because it's what I do, you can expect lots of blogging my way through it.  :)

Thanks, Brush X Painting, for doing an awesome job!