What Colour Shall We Paint the House?
The painters came out today and put on three little swatches of colour samples, so we could choose a paint colour. I have to admit that I’m not excited by any of them, especially the sort of aqua one (which doesn’t look anything like the swatch but does look like the old colour). It’s been a few days since we last updated, and here’s what’s been going on: The painters come and caulk around the bits of wood on the house, every day, with a trail of caulk tubes following them around the house. The work they leave behind is very good; they’ve been doing a really careful job of the caulking, as you can see on this detail of the dining room bay. In addition, the carpenter has been here, making repairs to the porch roof. You can’t actually see what he’s been doing without a ladder and some determination, so no photos. But he also attached a bunch of the trim that came loose during scraping, so now the porch columns look right again: I also thought he said he did something else with the fascia
