It’s official.
I am somewhat obsessed with green now.
You may recall my Pinspiration greens from Sherwin-Williams.
I recently blogged about painting our upstairs bath sage green.
We chose Unusual Gray (at the bottom) for the walls,
with a ceiling of 50% Contented (second from top).
Our bathroom, very much in its “during” stage:
My green obsession has me plotting to use a lot of sage green upstairs,
so stay tuned for that.
Meanwhile, I now have just a wee bit of color remorse
re: the exterior siding of our Dutch colonial.
How’s that possible? I’m asking myself,
when I truly love the white + gray + black scheme that’s out there now?
I was perusing some older blog posts the other day,
when I came across some siding choices from 5 years ago.
As one does, I’d placed some color samples on the house
for what I call “the admire”,
which is what I do when I am trying to decide ANY-thing.
Notice that there are 2 gray siding samples at left + 1 green sample at right.
Even 5 years before my green obsession developed,
I was seriously considering green siding!
Too late now, of course, but for fun, here’s a close up of the green:
I forget the name of the siding company, but we bought it from Menards.
Shall we look at some green houses + wonder “what if”?
Found on Pinterest — source unknown
Check out the stunning details on this next beautiful home!
The Adirondack chair + container of blue hydrangeas are so “me”!
Domino magazine — I must subscribe!
And, saving the best for last, this cottage charmer.
Looks like they used the same colors as we did in our bathroom!
Extra points for painting the front door + the window sashes
with the same (beautiful) darker color!
Disclaimer: I would totally fall on those steps!
Found on Pinterest — source unknown
I still love our white house with the gray gables, though.
I think it’s timeless, + the white first story + contrasting color second story
is definitely a “thing” when it comes to Dutch colonials.
REDBIRD 
January 6th, 2018 at 1:02 pm
Love, love , love your house colors!! Almost done covering all of the greens that we’ve had inside our house! lol
January 7th, 2018 at 4:14 am
HA @ re-painting! Believe it or not, I want to re-paint some of the gray in our downstairs.
January 7th, 2018 at 12:40 am
I have a gray house with white trim, and swore after having green in every room, no more green. But those houses are so sweet and charming!
Should we ever need to re-side where we reside (see what I did there?), green will be a definite possibility!
January 7th, 2018 at 3:58 am
Ha ha ha — yes, I got that! Re-side + reside!
January 7th, 2018 at 1:09 am
I took one look at your color samples and instantly said ooh I love the unusual gray lol.
My parents had a house with green siding I always liked green still do. It never gets old.
January 7th, 2018 at 4:01 am
I’m so relieved that we liked our first choice, because green can be so iffy.
January 7th, 2018 at 7:06 pm
I love green colors, have a green bedroom and green bathroom!
January 8th, 2018 at 11:41 am
Cheryl, that sounds pretty! I want to find an even gray-er green + paint the upstairs woodwork with it. Stay tuned!
January 7th, 2018 at 11:53 pm
I love the gray and white you chose. The green examples are awesome, but I like your colors for your house better. And I would slip, trip and fall on those steps too.
January 8th, 2018 at 11:32 am
Ha ha ha, Nancy! I just re-read this post + thought the same thing when i spied the steps. What a cute house, though! TY for the color compliment, too. I think ours is more historically accurate, so fingers crossed it’s timeless.