The house is a new color!

I love to paint, love love love it! Such an instant gratification kind of thing. Interior, however, not exterior. Thankfully, we know a first rate painter who offered to help us out. Our house is 6 years old, and the trim had faded something awful, to the point where it was flaking and you could see the white underneath.

See the green flaking around the upstairs window and coming off the corners? Don't look at the dead plants. Seriously, don't look.


Here is the after, we chose some pretty intense colors, and while I like it, it doesn't flow like I had hoped. There is a lot of red in the bricks, and I hoped it would pull it all together.


I have to give our painter, Joe, some major props. Not only does he own a painting company, but he also owns a home construction company and has offered to rebuild homes destroyed in a terrible fire recently at cost. We feel blessed to know him and his family.