Since removing the two Aleppo Pine trees from the South and South-West corners of the yard, I've noticed that our daughter's bedroom is hawwt. This used to be the most cool and comfortable room in the house, but now it just bakes. I tried to remediate this issue by planting Little Big Blue last fall, but desert trees don't throw the kinds of deep shade that a 50+ year-old pine tree would.
Plan B is to repaint the outside of the house. Considering that it's been 8-9 years since last painting, the house has actually held up pretty well. On the unshaded Eastern and Southern sides of the house, the dark, chocolate color (actually called Behr's Bitter Chocolate) has faded to a whitened ghost of the front of the house.
My inspiration is from Retro Renovation (of course):
(link here: https://retrorenovation.com/2009/08/02/samantha-and-dave-paint-their-mid-century-house-burma-jade/)
The plan is to paint the trim Behr's Polar Bear, which is a yellow-based white that I used to brighten up the bathroom wainscotting last summer. Our door is currently a light green from the old Martha Stewart series at the Home Depot (no name, since discontinued) but will be re-painted a soft yellow, Sherwin William's Butter Up. The biggest change will be continuing the white to the bottom plane of the house, which will be highly reflective as opposed to being highly absorbative. This will also reinforce the horizontal lines of the house in a fresh way. The top layer of color will be a green, but instead of Burma Jade I will use Sherwin William's Restful, which is a similar level of mid-tone color but slightly dirtied up. It also happens to be a good match to Martha Stewart's Ducks Egg, which I am super-obsessed with. The porch will go be darkened with Sherwin William's Sun Dried Tomato, which I matched by eye with original paint on my stoop.
All of these colors are going to give the house a 30's-40's feel, while looking clean enough to not feel like a museum piece. Since I've found little hints that the house was a minty green underneath the formerly white exterior, I'd like to think that I'm also bringing the house and the neighborhood back to happy color - no more brown and beige!
Plan B is to repaint the outside of the house. Considering that it's been 8-9 years since last painting, the house has actually held up pretty well. On the unshaded Eastern and Southern sides of the house, the dark, chocolate color (actually called Behr's Bitter Chocolate) has faded to a whitened ghost of the front of the house.
My inspiration is from Retro Renovation (of course):
The plan is to paint the trim Behr's Polar Bear, which is a yellow-based white that I used to brighten up the bathroom wainscotting last summer. Our door is currently a light green from the old Martha Stewart series at the Home Depot (no name, since discontinued) but will be re-painted a soft yellow, Sherwin William's Butter Up. The biggest change will be continuing the white to the bottom plane of the house, which will be highly reflective as opposed to being highly absorbative. This will also reinforce the horizontal lines of the house in a fresh way. The top layer of color will be a green, but instead of Burma Jade I will use Sherwin William's Restful, which is a similar level of mid-tone color but slightly dirtied up. It also happens to be a good match to Martha Stewart's Ducks Egg, which I am super-obsessed with. The porch will go be darkened with Sherwin William's Sun Dried Tomato, which I matched by eye with original paint on my stoop.
All of these colors are going to give the house a 30's-40's feel, while looking clean enough to not feel like a museum piece. Since I've found little hints that the house was a minty green underneath the formerly white exterior, I'd like to think that I'm also bringing the house and the neighborhood back to happy color - no more brown and beige!
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