NEW HOME TEASER EXTERIOR SIDING AND COLORS

Here is a little teaser of the new house...

This is a computer generated image of our actual house plan.  More will be revealed in future posts, we have to make it exciting, ha.  Yes, it will be red and white, like a barn.  We kind of started on the outside and worked our way in, ha.  Those who have followed the blog for a long time know that we always wanted the house to be barn red.  We have our outbuildings that color and it just seemed like a natural to have the house match.

The builder uses Sherwin Williams paint throughout (inside and out) so the fun part has been going to the SW store and looking at a million paint samples.  OK, so not a million but it sure seems like it, ha. 

We pulled these (and one more in white we forgot to put in this picture).  They were the closest to barn red that we imagined.  We know that in these computer pics it will be hard to tell but some were too bright red (we don't want fire engine red) and some had too much purple.  A few we didn't bother with since they were orange or rust tones.  We looked at all of them outside in the full sun because that's how it will be seen.

In the end, we narrowed it down to what they call "Poinsettia" for the red color and "Cotton" for white on the trim, shutters, decorative elements and porch railing.  We get three colors on the exterior without paying extra for paint, and we have something in mind for the third but more on that in a future post.  The front door will be talked about in another post as well because, well, that's exciting too, ha.

Inspiration, image courtesy of wikicommons

The colors are subject to change, let's be honest, the exterior painting is one of the last things done, so we could change our mind before it gets to that point...but not from the red and white, we're set on that.  Photos like the one above have been an inspiration to us for a long time as we planned.

Not our house, yet

Lastly, as you can see on that house in the previous picture, we liked the look of the vertical siding.  We had options brick, stone, regular siding, etc.  In the end we chose a James Hardie board and batten exterior siding, to reflect a barn/farmhouse look, as in the example above.  The siding on the outbuildings is also vertical like this (not board and batten of course) so it will keep things looking deliberate instead of accidental, ha.

Next time, the third color in a special place!