http://1912bungalow.com/2004/04/gearing-up-for-the-exterior/ Articles, reviews, tons of before & after photos, house restoration and interviews for the house obsessed. Get inspired! Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:05:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://1912bungalow.com/2004/04/gearing-up-for-the-exterior/comment-page-1/#comment-295 Cheryll Sun, 25 Apr 2004 06:27:13 +0000 http://1912bungalow.com/blog/2004/04/23/gearing-up-for-the-exterior/#comment-295 Hi Heather! You sound in much better spirits today! Your idea of scavenging the old siding from the porch and sunroom to patch the main house is such a good idea! I never would have thought of that! I LOVE the cedar shakes on your dormers. Maybe you could use the same materials for the porch and sunroom. It would add contrast and character to your exterior. I am so glad you are going with the green color for the exterior! Your house just SCREAMS GREEN!!! There is a beautiful bungalow 2 blocks down from us (that has already been restored) and they used the dark green and blue color scheme. Green for the body, dark blue for the roof and a cream color for the trim around the windows. They also used the same dark blue roof color as a trim color for the porch railings and floor. The right shades of blue and green look great together. I really like it and am jealous... I think our house has always been white. BORING!!!!! In our area they are also using a deep dark PLUM with the green and the results are just stunning! Green and Plum is really sharp looking! My favorite colors are still green, blue and the dark country red. I also like the creamy yellow for the body of the house, with the old deep dark red roof and green trim. That was a popular color scheme when our homes were built. I think back then... roofing came in red or green and that was it! Possibly black, but I won't swear to it. We haven't gotten that far as to chosing the exterior colors. Our house once sat in another place in town and was moved in the 1940s. The porch we have now was added then and is not original to the house. We do have pictures of the original porch and my building contractor brother is going to rebuild it...someday! Hopefully this summer. He lives in Washington and only gets homes twice a year. Well, it is starting to storm here and time to turn off the PC. We had damaging tornados Monday near Chicago. It whiped out half of a small town. The weather here in Illinois can get scarey sometimes...Cheryll Hi Heather! You sound in much better spirits today! Your idea of scavenging the old siding from the porch and sunroom to patch the main house is such a good idea! I never would have thought of that! I LOVE the cedar shakes on your dormers. Maybe you could use the same materials for the porch and sunroom. It would add contrast and character to your exterior. I am so glad you are going with the green color for the exterior! Your house just SCREAMS GREEN!!! There is a beautiful bungalow 2 blocks down from us (that has already been restored) and they used the dark green and blue color scheme. Green for the body, dark blue for the roof and a cream color for the trim around the windows. They also used the same dark blue roof color as a trim color for the porch railings and floor. The right shades of blue and green look great together. I really like it and am jealous… I think our house has always been white. BORING!!!!! In our area they are also using a deep dark PLUM with the green and the results are just stunning! Green and Plum is really sharp looking! My favorite colors are still green, blue and the dark country red. I also like the creamy yellow for the body of the house, with the old deep dark red roof and green trim. That was a popular color scheme when our homes were built. I think back then… roofing came in red or green and that was it! Possibly black, but I won’t swear to it. We haven’t gotten that far as to chosing the exterior colors. Our house once sat in another place in town and was moved in the 1940s. The porch we have now was added then and is not original to the house. We do have pictures of the original porch and my building contractor brother is going to rebuild it…someday! Hopefully this summer. He lives in Washington and only gets homes twice a year. Well, it is starting to storm here and time to turn off the PC. We had damaging tornados Monday near Chicago. It whiped out half of a small town. The weather here in Illinois can get scarey sometimes…Cheryll

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