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dangitgirl
Tampa, FL
(Zone 9b)
August 25, 2007
2:42 AM Post #3897960
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We got our house painted...check out the blah...I mean before
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dangitgirl
Tampa, FL
(Zone 9b)
August 25, 2007
2:45 AM Post #3897962
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It was so chalky and gross. When we bought it a year and a half ago I just thought UGH Chalky Grey on Chalkier Grey IS NOT sexy.
Now my house is SEX-AY!! YEAH!! Ha ha. Forgive me but you just can't understand how awful it was. It did not show off my garden...but now...
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dangitgirl
Tampa, FL
(Zone 9b)
August 25, 2007
2:48 AM Post #3897965
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You want to hear something funny though... This is when I came home and saw it the first time...we were on vacation while it got painted... It looks way better now. They were still touching up things on it. |
critterologist
Frederick, MD
(Zone 6b)
September 17, 2007
7:41 PM Post #3986535
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I love the new color! Much warmer and much more inviting... and now your plantings look wonderful against it! |
rabidhunter66
Stockton Springs, ME
September 18, 2007
4:34 PM Post #3990245
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VERY nice the color is very inviting. |
dangitgirl
Tampa, FL
(Zone 9b)
September 19, 2007
12:28 AM Post #3991939
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Thanks!! I am thinking about painting around the little windows in the garage!
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critterologist
Frederick, MD
(Zone 6b)
September 19, 2007
7:48 AM Post #3992368
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I don't think I'd do it... but then I'm always in favor of de-emphasizing the garage door and driveway on a house, so it looks like "house with attached garage" rather than like "garage with attached house" LOL. I think the windows in the garage door add a nice detail without jumping out at you.
But if you try it and don't like it -- it's only paint, you can paint it over again to undo it! |
dangitgirl
Tampa, FL
(Zone 9b)
September 19, 2007
12:06 PM Post #3993156
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I am all about de-emphasizing the garage door too...It just looks so ... bland... |
Photographer
Moxee, WA
(Zone 4a)
September 19, 2007
4:39 PM Post #3994073
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The detached garage is another icon from eras gone by. We have one as well ... 75 ft from the house ... 4 bays and extra deep. Now don't anyone out there be envious please. It nearly blew over last spring. It doesn't have any doors and all we keep in it are my 17ft ChrisCraft and an old 1952 Ford tractor. It is really quite humble even though its 1000 sq ft. Some day we'll make it beautiful. You can be jealous of my 1935 solid mahogany planked antique ChrisCraft ... but nothing else. |
dangitgirl
Tampa, FL
(Zone 9b)
September 20, 2007
9:26 AM Post #3996693
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LOL Photographer I am sooo blinking jealous!!! LOL HAHA HA
Um... My daughter Christin makes crafts... What kind of craft is your CHRIS craft? *cheeky grin*
And FYI that is not a Christin craft in the center of my lawn it's a Mommy Craft better known as a rock garden...;D
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Photographer
Moxee, WA
(Zone 4a)
September 21, 2007
10:54 AM Post #4001599
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dangitgirl, I'd be tempted to put up an extra long and wide pergola in front of the garage door and have wisteria growing all over to better avoid any possible illusion of the "garage with attached house" dilemma that is so much the norm with modern homes. Yours is not near so flagrant in that respect. I've actually drawn up home designs with a garage door & driveway that are minimized to the extent that many drivers or passers by would not notice either.
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