Our house exterior needs to be painted. We are paying to have it completed. It needs painting fairly badly. I like to paint, and when we go on mission trips with various youth groups this is the main work I enjoy - painting a house. But, we have over 35 windows on our house and it hasn't been painted in probably forever and the south side has the most windows and will require scraping and priming. I don't have time, so we hired it out.
We have a bungalow-type of house and I have been spinning on what color to paint. It has been various shades of green (dark green - then a much lighter green). I am sure styles and shades come and go and ours will surely do the same, but we have to live with it for the next 15 years or so, so it is a... complex decision for me and us.
I get stuck with wanting a complete old school look with authentic colors. As I search the internet I find lots of resources and lots of opinions. That is how I feel about the paint - lots of options and shades and such, but how about just some basic old school color? There aren't any old photos of the house that we know of, so we have decided to determine the color from our brickwork - which is still the original color(s).
That's how it is where I live. In the middle of the city with lots of options. Almost too many alternatives and choices. Narrowing down the choices seems to take the most time - is that where we're headed? Like a pick-your-own-ending book. We move along for awhile, come upon some sort of significant decision and let it guide us to the next. What if we read the ending first and then worked our way back?
We'll see where our house color takes us next, hopefully not at odds with our neighbors.
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