Paintin' a House...

The (what seemed like) myriad of color choices.

A patchwork quilt of color options. By no means is this an artistic statement.

At least I'll have help painting the house (whether I need it or not).

...nothing's more funner, more easier dunner. Ok, nevermind the lame reference to Tom Sawyer. Painting a house is a bit of an undertaking, to say the very least. We've spent months talking about colors and styles. Then, I spent hours testing 14 different colors. (The "patchwork" pictures above show several of the test runs. Not counting the black we already had, I bought 13 quarts of different colors. Believe me, I'd rather make a $4 mistake on a quart of paint 11 times than a $400 mistake once.) What gave us the most trouble with picking colors for the trim and walls was finding something that coordinated with the stone wall that dominates the front of our house. Many of the colors we liked ended up looking too cool/cold painted next to the stone. We finally settled on a charcoal gray for the trim (which we had Sherwin-Williams color match from the color sample for our new gutters) and Intellectual Gray, which looks more like a khaki than a gray. The combination is quite striking. I'll post pictures of house in progress soon.