Wrong Color

So, I walk out of the house last week to see for the first time our house in its new stucco color. 

Not good. It is exactly the color we picked out but it looks terrible on the large canvas of our house: puke yellow.

I immediately call Robert, the owner of Denver Custom Plastering, who reassures me that I can pick out a new color and use that for the final layer. Phew! 

Josh leaves the new color up to me. Great… the pressure is on. I bring my final two choices over to my friend Heidi to evaluate. She picks my favorite. Phew!

Robert picks up the sample, has it custom matched and brings it over for us to see. Battleship grey? Crap. Not exactly what we had in mind. When we tell Robert I can tell that he wants us to be happy but doesn’t want to go through this process a million more times with his crazy client (no s on client for a reason… Josh is the sane client). 

Volunteering to go over to the color making place, I jump in the car and head east on I-70. I look at two darker samples with more brown in them and pick one. Phew!

On my way home Robert calls to make sure that I am really satisfied with the color I chose. He means well but now I start second guessing myself and wishing that I had brought the samples home to deliberate over. Crap.

Do I turn around and fight traffic again? This is the color of the whole outside of our house we are talking about! Crap. My disdain for traffic is stronger than my nuttiness, at least this time anyway. 

I let it go, sort of. I call Robert back and ask that I take a look at the new color after it is applied to the garage but before it is applied to the house. Ok, I feel better.

It is overcast when the new color goes on. It looks lighter than I expect and how will I know that in the sun it won’t look purple. Crap.

I let it go, sort of. As the color dries is gets darker and I absolutely love it, when it is overcast. But what about in the sun? Mostly our house will be seen in the sun! There is already a purple house a street over so I guess the neighbors wouldn’t be completely shocked (horrified, yes but not shocked).

Raleigh House before any exterior work.

 

Raleigh House after first color choice was applied. YUCK!

 

Raleigh House after second color applied in overcast weather.

 

Raleigh House in the sun with new color choice.

There is a tinge of purple if you ask me but mostly I like the color. I love, love, love the color when it is overcast and my friend Jenn said last night, when it was overcast, that it had a tinge of green to it. Phew!

 

Raleigh Garage Before

 Ya, that’s a chain link dog kennel on the right side of the picture. Need one? The purple recycling bin really doesn’t need to be in a cage.

 

Raleigh Garage in the first color choice.

Raleigh Garage with new color choice

The garage might just look good in any color. The house is another story.