New House Exterior Color

Hello everyone!

I'm all smiles now that our house been repainted and spiffed up.  It had been years since our house had been painted and lets just say it showed!  We had some things repaired on our house too such as siding near our chimney replaced, and flashing added to keep the rain water from running down the chimney and mildewing.  We had a window frame repaired that was splitting and our front porch floor stained for the first time.  Our back deck got restained as well.  Our front door got restained a darker color and I couldn't be happier. We even had our driveway and walkway cleaned.  It feels like we live in a brand new house now!  We still need to put out fresh pine straw to make the yard look better and plant a few bushes in front of our front porch but other than that, we're done!  

Ready to take a look?

It was a very cloudy day when I took these pics, so the lighting is not the best.  

This picture shows you more of the color we used.  We used to have a taupe colored house with black shutters.  Now it is a beige color house with olive green shutters.

The white trim used on the porch is a warm white instead of a bright white now.

Here is our darker front door now.  We plan on changing out the door handle to a brushed nickel.  I'm still weeding out all the brass in this house!!

I love our newly stained front porch floor now.  I don't know why we waited so long to do it!

We painted our back french doors and gutters the same color as our shutters too.  I'm liking that change.  They used to be white.  We will also be replacing the light fixture on our back deck.

 The house feels so clean now.  No more peeling paint on the front porch, no more mildew on the siding and shutters, no more bare wood where we replaced it and never repainted it, and no more spider webs!  If you ever think you hate your house, just repaint it and you'll fall in love all over again.  

Here are the paint and stain colors we used:

Sherwin Williams

Body color:  SW 6143 Basket Beige

Shutter and gutter color:  SW 6152 Superior Bronze

trim color:  SW 6154 Nacre

stain color on floor:  SW 3540 Mountain Ash 

stain color on door:  Minwax (don't have name)

I need to contact my painter for the front door stain color.  He used his own stain and didn't leave us the can.  

If you are local and are looking for good painters, let me know.  I can give you the name of who did ours. 

Don't forget the big link up party is coming soon!  Be sure to link up this Wednesday night at 7:00 EST.  

Thanks for stopping by!

~ Kelly ~