First off, I think the roof is kinda cool especially with the new color!!!
Secondly my house (a 1949 cape) is now painted a VERY similar color with orange doors. I was afraid people would think a Witch lived here but luckily no one has tried to burn me at the stake yet….
Ohhh...blue and green is my favorite color combo, so love Goodnight Moon in the middle of your forest. And just another example of your creativity is your Londo Lodge logo with the moon and the pine cone-love love love it!
I love it-- perfect! I live in Annapolis, Maryland and when we moved in we knew we wanted to paint the very ugly brown brick (I love pretty brick but this was poopy). The roof was also brownish along with the window trim. We used Romabio paint matched to SW Alabaster, a warm white, with Edgecomb Gray trim and a blue/gray for the doors and porch roof (both BM but I forget the door color name). It really turned out well-- neighbors put thank you notes in our mailbox about it!
Anyway, I would have loved to have done a very dark green exterior, but it would have been insanity here because summers are SO HOT.
I love Clare paint too and used some of there (Current Mood, Head Space) for bedrooms.
It’s a beautiful color and so much nicer than all the black and white! I so wanted to paint my house a moody blue like this but I live in the hot, and getting hotter, Southeast (80 tomorrow and should be 60!) so I used BM Pigeon Gray with a light gray roof. My entire house looks like snow on a 90’s TV without a signal but it’s cooler than it was with a darker roof. I need to do something different with the trim, but don’t know what yet. I used 50% lighter Pigeon Gray and think I should have used a darker, bluer color to bring out the blue/violet undertone in the house paint. Monochrome can look fabulous or it can be so blah. The difference is in the designer!
I’m constantly amazed at the difference paint can make (plus a bit of judicious tree thinning in this case). Love the colour choice, agree that the “let’s just paint it black” trend is really overdone and environmentally wrong if the AC then needs to be cranked up 24/7 to compensate. And I love the “realness” of your renovations, it takes either a LOT of time or a LOT of money to get work done on our homes and sometimes we have to make choices we don’t want to or wouldn’t if our funds were unlimited. Can’t wait to see your kitchen when it’s done!
The exterior looks very sophisticated now. It really stands out as well as seems nestled in the forest, it that duality makes sense. I agree with another poster, Stacey, that the name of the color, Goodnight Moon is so good.
Haha, "Ten to one hundred years" is our timetable for most things! But Good Enough for Now is a wonderful option that we make full use of. We are planning to get new shutters* and paint our trim --- and since we discovered shutters come in colors, we decided to choose a color that they sell and match the trim with that, rather than agonizing over colors and doing extra work to paint the shutters. We will need to paint again soon enough, and we will have a better budget then, most likely, so it will work out.
You have done so much. Good Enough for Now is a good way to focus your energy.
(* I'm not into shutters, but without them would not actually be better, so they stay and get a refresh)
I love this dark color. I'm so tired of white houses, beige houses, or light gray houses. People are so afraid of dark colors but they match the woods better!
First off, I think the roof is kinda cool especially with the new color!!!
Secondly my house (a 1949 cape) is now painted a VERY similar color with orange doors. I was afraid people would think a Witch lived here but luckily no one has tried to burn me at the stake yet….
What a great transformation.. I think you nailed it, and also, who could resist a paint called Goodnight Moon?
Ohhh...blue and green is my favorite color combo, so love Goodnight Moon in the middle of your forest. And just another example of your creativity is your Londo Lodge logo with the moon and the pine cone-love love love it!
I love it-- perfect! I live in Annapolis, Maryland and when we moved in we knew we wanted to paint the very ugly brown brick (I love pretty brick but this was poopy). The roof was also brownish along with the window trim. We used Romabio paint matched to SW Alabaster, a warm white, with Edgecomb Gray trim and a blue/gray for the doors and porch roof (both BM but I forget the door color name). It really turned out well-- neighbors put thank you notes in our mailbox about it!
Anyway, I would have loved to have done a very dark green exterior, but it would have been insanity here because summers are SO HOT.
I love Clare paint too and used some of there (Current Mood, Head Space) for bedrooms.
It’s a beautiful color and so much nicer than all the black and white! I so wanted to paint my house a moody blue like this but I live in the hot, and getting hotter, Southeast (80 tomorrow and should be 60!) so I used BM Pigeon Gray with a light gray roof. My entire house looks like snow on a 90’s TV without a signal but it’s cooler than it was with a darker roof. I need to do something different with the trim, but don’t know what yet. I used 50% lighter Pigeon Gray and think I should have used a darker, bluer color to bring out the blue/violet undertone in the house paint. Monochrome can look fabulous or it can be so blah. The difference is in the designer!
I’m constantly amazed at the difference paint can make (plus a bit of judicious tree thinning in this case). Love the colour choice, agree that the “let’s just paint it black” trend is really overdone and environmentally wrong if the AC then needs to be cranked up 24/7 to compensate. And I love the “realness” of your renovations, it takes either a LOT of time or a LOT of money to get work done on our homes and sometimes we have to make choices we don’t want to or wouldn’t if our funds were unlimited. Can’t wait to see your kitchen when it’s done!
The exterior looks very sophisticated now. It really stands out as well as seems nestled in the forest, it that duality makes sense. I agree with another poster, Stacey, that the name of the color, Goodnight Moon is so good.
I love the dark color with the color of the roof!!
I love it! It looks wonderful.
Dark colors hide flaws well.
Haha, "Ten to one hundred years" is our timetable for most things! But Good Enough for Now is a wonderful option that we make full use of. We are planning to get new shutters* and paint our trim --- and since we discovered shutters come in colors, we decided to choose a color that they sell and match the trim with that, rather than agonizing over colors and doing extra work to paint the shutters. We will need to paint again soon enough, and we will have a better budget then, most likely, so it will work out.
You have done so much. Good Enough for Now is a good way to focus your energy.
(* I'm not into shutters, but without them would not actually be better, so they stay and get a refresh)
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I love this dark color. I'm so tired of white houses, beige houses, or light gray houses. People are so afraid of dark colors but they match the woods better!