{"id":6129,"date":"2015-06-30T07:38:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T11:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=6129"},"modified":"2015-06-09T08:47:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T12:47:58","slug":"still-brainstorming-house-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/06\/30\/still-brainstorming-house-colors\/","title":{"rendered":"still brainstorming house colors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/center><\/center>The more time I have to mull over something the more I consider\u00a0 other options.\u00a0 There is a pretty, new, bright blue paint job on a house two blocks away that caught my eye and I realized how crisp blue houses always stand out in a neighborhood.\u00a0 Then, a friend questioned my decision to avoid green (though I love it) because the gorgeously kept house across the street was green.\u00a0 I would lean more to the avocado than the neighbors.\u00a0 I like how the house seems to rise from the grass in that picture.\u00a0 I also started playing around with a more obvious color variation for the chimney.\u00a0 Why not, right?<\/p>\n

Added to these mock-ups is a firming idea that I want to paint the slanted brick sills to look like slanted brick sills again.\u00a0 The front door alcove is tiled in a terracotta color, so it would carry those red tones through the rest of the exterior.\u00a0 This would be something I could do before painting the whole house, as is getting a screen-door insert from Old Florida Retro<\/a> or Hip Haven<\/a>.\u00a0 Our screen door is probably original, but it is very simple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The more time I have to mull over something the more I consider\u00a0 other options.\u00a0 There is a pretty, new, bright blue paint job on a house two blocks away that caught my eye and I realized how crisp blue houses always stand out in a neighborhood.\u00a0 Then, a friend questioned my decision to avoid… Continue reading still brainstorming house colors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[214],"class_list":["post-6129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-the-house"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5529,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/03\/05\/color-my-house\/","url_meta":{"origin":6129,"position":0},"title":"Color my house","author":"leems","date":"March 5, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Painting the exterior of the house is on our five year plan, along with getting a driveway (it's true, we have none at all).\u00a0 I have a habit verbally and gesturally describing my vision in a way that no one I know seems to understand, so I've taken to making\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/housefront2-150x112.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/housefront2-150x112.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/housefront2-150x112.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5459,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2014\/11\/24\/the-ugliest-spot-in-the-house\/","url_meta":{"origin":6129,"position":1},"title":"The ugliest spot in the house","author":"leems","date":"November 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Every house has them: those rooms that need sprucing, the hole that needs patching.\u00a0 Well, after we finally painted the pokey hallway, my kitchen became the ugliest spot in the house.\u00a0 It's visible from so many places in the house, it's just too hard to ignore. 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