If The Creek Don't Rise: New Exterior Paint Color!

Well, here it is ... the new updated version of the outside of our house!

The trim around our house has desperately needed painting for a couple of years now ...

and we finally got around to doing it!

Well, we hired out, actually.

(I breathed a sigh of relief!)

(The thoughts of James high up on a ladder was a bit disconcerting to say the least!)

(Best trust those kinds of risky endeavors to the professionals, right?!)

The original color was this yellowish tan.

We decided to strike out there & go with a bold change in color.

Huge risk, huge return was definitely the case here!

I drove around our neighborhood & several other new developments close by but didn't see a single house

with the color I had in mind, but I still felt confident in going this route.

James was in complete agreement.

We'd been so busy that the day the painter was to arrive, we still hadn't settled on a color.

Hadn't even gone to pick out a swatch!

So, I pulled up paint colors on my phone & we went out back & starting holding up colors

next to the siding to see how they matched.

We're so high tech here, aren't we?!

We made our decision, Cooper Adobe Brown, & sent it over to the painter

so he could stop & buy the paint!

In no time flat, we had some new color going up!

Here is the first look ... a pretty good before & after pic!

And here it all all finished!

We are super pleased with it!

What a fun update, huh?!

It was nice to mark this off the to-do list before the end of the year.

Course, all the fall decor has been replaced with a Christmas wreath & lights now.

Believe it or not though, the weather has been so mild here in central IN that we still have some flowers blooming!

Quite a change from the last couple of years.

There's not a single complaint from me though.

I'm loving the lack of snow!

Thanks for stopping in for a visit & hope that you all are enjoying this holiday season!

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