Exterior Pigment | Sherwin Williams Muslin To Stand Upwards For Anderson Windows Canvas

We are thence unopen to beingness ready to motility dorsum into the solid - only 1 calendar week left.  It doesn't seem real.  At all.  Ah!  Of course of pedagogy after waiting as well as waiting for thence long (patiently?) I experience similar in that place a 1 thou m things that I necessitate to larn done betwixt forthwith as well as then!  Not today.  Today, I'm taking the forenoon "off."  I'm drinking my java inwards my PJs as well as writing weblog posts as well as enjoying these photos.  We've been working thence difficult on the yard (and novel DIY patio, details coming soon!) that I've earned a intermission inwards front end of the reckoner today - away from the mud.

The interior as well as exterior icon were finished lastly week.  I haven't been able to part many details of the pigment because the solid was actually off limits spell the painters were working.  Then the solar daytime they finished the electricians swooped inwards a started hanging low-cal fixtures.  So, you lot larn to run into a lot today!  I started alongside putting interior as well as exterior photos on this 1 post service every bit well, but it was getting rattling lengthy, thence I'll post service those tomorrow.  Promise - writing it today.

Here nosotros go!

As you lot know, thence much of the pattern inspiration from our solid came from our fourth dimension inwards New England.  I beloved the early on american, farm as well as coastal architecture there.  In fact, it was what I loved most most living in that place - but I didn't similar beingness away from our family.  So, nosotros thought, we'll only create a New England-esque solid at domicile as well as lead maintain the best of both worlds.  Okay, thence I don't lead maintain the beach, mountains as well as all of the colonial history minutes from our house... but, I tin pretend : )

Below I speak a picayune chip most our diverse travels as well as where the inspiration for the pigment system came from.  We knew nosotros wanted a white-ish house, but alongside a picayune to a greater extent than warmth.  So, creamy.  But non every bit good yellow, non every bit good warm.  My favorite off-white is Benjamin Moore's Navajo White, which nosotros used all over interior for walls as well as cut inwards top dog areas of the house.  I idea it would live a perfect jibe outside, too, but nosotros needed to jibe our clad Andersen Windows.

Note : nosotros are yet waiting for the shutters, which volition live painted to jibe the front end door, SW Iron Ore.



As you lot may recall, I chose the Canvas color for the exterior clad of the Windows (Andersen 400s) because I knew I didn't desire the solid to live white-white.  So, nosotros upgraded the windows from the 200s to the 400s to larn the Canvas color option.  Andersen provided the exact jibe for the window color inwards Sherwin Williams Muslin, which is only a shade to a greater extent than saturated than Navajo White.  I tested the colors adjacent to the windows as well as it worked perfectly.

*I mentioned earlier (this is non-sponsored, yesteryear the way) that nosotros ordered our Andersen Windows from Home Depot.  We saved almost $4K compared to a local Andersen dealer.  Crazy.  Highly recommend!

I was a picayune nervous that the solid would seem low-cal beige instead of off-white, but I actually intend it turned out perfect.  I beloved classic white houses, but all of my favorite houses of all fourth dimension were a picayune to a greater extent than creamy, thence nosotros took the risk.

Another peril was leaving the dormers as well as garage front end inwards natural cedar milkshake instead of icon them similar the residuum of the house.  I'm thence glad nosotros did.  I experience similar it actually transformed the solid from a criterion looking cape to a charming cottage.  We wanted to exercise a cedar roof, but the toll was a picayune crazy, thence adding the cedar chemical gene to the dormers as well as garage added that cedar element.

To brand the terminal decision, nosotros went dorsum as well as looked at some inspiration photos :

This is was a solid that nosotros both loved that nosotros constitute on our trip to Nantucket (more photos of our trip to here) last fall.  Note the rattling creamy trim, dark shutters as well as natural cedar.  During the edifice procedure nosotros kept coming dorsum to this photograph for inspiration.  It helped to lead maintain something to exhibit subs as well as the builder, too, to tending them realize you lot aren't crazy : )

Another solid we've ever loved was the Bedford Post Inn inwards Bedford, Ny.  We visited in that place a duo of years agone when I went to the Martha Stewart Show as well as toured her offices.

They lead maintain a lighter trim, but yet same creamy siding.  You tin run into other photos from our Trip to Bedford Post Inn here.

Martha Stewart's Turkey Hill Home, one-time (when Martha owned it, above) as well as renovated (by novel owners, below).

I actually wanted to exercise the cut as well as the siding the same color - in that place is something most that tone-on-tone hold off that I love.  I beloved how subtle it is.  I beloved how it makes the millwork to a greater extent than or less the windows as well as door look.  For me, it lets the millwork stand upward out on its own, without relying on an "accent" color.  Her color is to a greater extent than grey/beige than ours, but I similar the agency it looks.

This is the renovated color.  It looks rattling much similar our muslin, but non certain what the actual color is.

Side sentiment of the novel Turkey Hill.

Another indicate of inspiration (especially for tone-on-tone paint) was our trip to Deerfield, Mass.  In coincidences of all coincidences, every bit I was explaining my inspiration to our painter he told me he went to boarding schoolhouse inwards Deerfield.  Yes, our painter inwards Kansas went to boarding schoolhouse inwards Deerfield, Mass.  Such a pocket-sized world.
More photos from our trip to Deerfield Mass.

Ok, dorsum to our house.  Here is a glimpse of the landscaping I've been working on.

We ordered some other Concord Lantern inwards Antique Brass (this 1 a wall mount) from Cape Cod Lighting Co., some other nod to our fourth dimension inwards Concord as well as on the Cape.  We had a lantern from the same collection over our dining room (that volition forthwith live inwards our bedroom) as well as I had ii smaller ones made for over the island.

Also, I forgot to lead maintain a photograph of the Barn Lights inwards a higher house the garage - also from Cape Code Lighting Co.

I actually similar this perspective of the solid - run into that large window?  Above the tub!  I actually intend the exterior grills on the windows brand a large architectural touching on on the house.   You tin run into how the solid looks the same every bit it did from the front, but grows subtly out the dorsum - only what nosotros wanted to do.

Then, when you lot brand it the dorsum yard...

An alone novel hold off - but yet colonial inspired.  

I forgot to lead maintain a total photograph of the dorsum after plastic had been removed, thence this is 1 from my phone. 

Here are the copper lanterns on the porch!  There are 3, alongside 2 fans inwards between.   These are from Sandwich Lantern Co., also handmade on Cape Cod.  The possessor is thence awesome (and funny!) to operate with.  Just talking to him on the telephone takes me dorsum to the salty air.

You tin run into some other glimpse of the garden coming along.  This photograph is a picayune outdated every bit nosotros finished the novel patio yesterday!  Mike as well as I (with Emma's help) built it ourselves inwards ii days - I'll part the details subsequently this week... after sod is in!

Interior photos coming tomorrow.  Thanks for sharing inwards my excitement - it has made it such a fun journey!  I tin country that forthwith that it is almost over : )

Share this post