This wonderful picture is from the Old House Colors website. We used Colonial Yellow stain for the body, which is mentioned by name in the 1910 Sherwin Williams Catalog.
This photo dates from 1911 and is copied from Robert Schweitzer's Bungalow Colors book.
Exterior painting is clearly a plastic-intensive process. The paint crew spent literally days masking and more masking, then they would spend an hour or two painting. It has been really interesting to watch the process.
Next, they went through and masked the glass on the old windows. They also masked the yellow-stained shingles. They sprayed the wood mullions with the dark green paint. Then they went through and masked the entire window with a second layer of plastic, leaving the trim around the window exposed.
Then, as expected, they wrapped up the white trim with MORE plastic.
They then went through and painted the yellow body paint. Here were the two paint samples they put up for us. The right hand sample is the yellow that matches the stained shingles; the left hand sample is 50% darker. We chose the darker yellow.
There is still some restoration of the barge boards to do, then we're ready for paint. Most of this trimwork is going to be painted white. The siding on the bottom-half of the house will be painted yellow, to match the upper portion.
And finished off the day building a platform so they could safely put siding on the front of the house.
They're nearly done with two sides of the house.
It took two guys all week to make their way across the front of the house. Granted, there are a lot of corners on that first bit. Maybe it will speed up from here on out as there are fewer corners on the rest of the house. There's just one more bump-out on the back of the dining room.
The windows arrived! It is exciting to get that unsightly plywood off the exterior of the house. Sharon believes we ordered Marvin Ultimate Double Hung Windows and Inserts to replace the old windows. It's hard to let the old wavy glass go from the upstairs but too many of the windows have cracked panes or have had the wavy glass replaced with modern smooth glass. Hopefully this will be a long term win in our reduced energy use.
The siding is also very slowly marching across the front of the house. Those mitered corners are taking forever!
We also got a delivery of very long siding pieces.
The sheetrock went up throughout the house the last couple of days and it's starting to look like a house again, rather than a construction site. Though we're still really looking forward to windows! =)
The roof over the driveway is being restored to its original profile.
The paint stripping team size has doubled, so they're making fast progress now. The dining room is looking awesome!
