Case loads go up and apparently I stop blogging--or doing much around the house for that matter. But it's a new year and we're getting the itch to make an upgrade. In this case, D admitted that he had never liked our vinyl siding, so we decided to look into something different. We already had Hardie board installed on the front-facing section of our sunroom when we had it redone in 2016, and have wanted it on the rest of the house since 2017 when we had to get new (mismatched) siding on the part of the top floor where a tree hit it. Though we have. brick house, we have a decent amount of siding. Here are a bunch of views to show off what would be replaced. We're talking about basically all of the white parts except immediately around the windows and doors:
(It seems unbelievable that we power washed this over the summer, with how dingy it looks)
We're also learning lots of words that I've heard before but never really knew exactly what part of the house they applied to. We're apparently looking at replacing the frieze boards, fascia boards, rake boards, and soffits. We're also doing the siding itself, on the dormers and gables. Here's a cool picture I found that had the parts helpfully labeled:
So now that we're doing this, it's time to figure out exactly what color we want to switch to. Because why keep the house white when we have a whole rainbow to choose from?
OK, but that said, we knew we wanted to stay with a neutral color in the gray category. So really, here are the choices we are looking at:
We've gone back and forth several times between pearl gray, gray slate, aged pewter, and iron gray. The contractor we hired for this job had a good point when he reminded us that our final color choice should not match too closely with our slate roof. A very good point--one we hadn't considered but now we realize is definitely true. We have a paver that is the same color as our roof that we're trying to use for color-matching purposes:
But of course, slate gray really is not a single color, but a blend of a lot of different grays, so it's not exactly easy to make sure that we don't match it too closely
I even tried to take a picture in gray tone, a trick I have used before to help me find similar and different "tones" for fabrics and decor.
It didn't really help.
And so that's where I'll leave it for now. We are leaning towards pearl gray, but let me know if you have any opinions. We also have some plans for how to add some accents around the dormer windows but I'll save that for a future post.
