Saturday, July 6, 2013

Painting the House

One of the recent projects was painting the house. We have aluminum siding, and it was a lovely (not) peach color, with lovely (not) maroon shutters. :) The siding was still in good condition, so we thought to save a couple bucks we would paint it.

Here is the house before the project started:



(We put that fence up when we moved in. And painted it white. I got my while picket fence!)
 
 Up Close view of the door. We also painted this to match the new shutters to come!



We removed all the shutters.
 
And began to paint. We did it the by hand way. We used a roller, ladder, and paint brush. It took some work, but we were really not into the paint sprayer. We rented a paint sprayer when we painted the fence and we went through so much paint it was crazy! So, by hand it was! Took a while, but well worth it!

 
We thought this color was going to be more gray, but turns out it has a slightly green tint. We actually painted the door teal, thinking the house would be gray, and the shutters blackish brown. But when the house started turning green, we had to repaint the door the same blackish brown because the teal door DID NOT GO! :)
 
 New Door Color!
 
We will upload the colors and paints we used.
 
So have you ever painted your house? How did it go? What colors did you use?
 
 We'll be Back soon!!
 
Have a good day!