House of Many Colors

One interesting thing about living in a 1922 bungalow is that you can use lots of colors to paint the house. Many house have at least 4 or 5 colors. We have 11.

We did not intend to have 11 but for the moment it has ended up that way.

When we bought the house 5 years ago, it was painted "Paint Your Heart Out Pink" as was our neighbors house. White trim and black screens.

We immediately painted it a gold yellow, as can be seen just behind the fence. However we had not painted trim, as it required a lot of scraping. That dragged on and did not get done, except for the front porch. The porch ceiling was painted a light blue and the door a purple blue.

Last year we painted our fence a green/yellow color and it clashed with the yellow gold on our house. so instead of repainting the fence (as most sane people would do) we choose to repaint the house. We choose a dark taupe color for the base with 2 versions of the yellow green paint on selected pieces of trim. The cap pieces on columns were painted burgundy. The door repainted another version of blue. The entire front was done when the project was interrupted.

7 months passed and our neighbor next door painted his house a dark green. On the other side our neighbor has a orange house. We decided we no longer liked the taupe and decided to repaint the whole house different colors. We chose a grey green color (see next photo) as a base color and a dark blue as a trim color. Our chimney was a dirty grey color, that we decided to paint adobe type color. As we are in middle of painting everything, right now there are 11 different colors all over the exterior of the house.

Life living with an artist is certainly interesting.