Anyway, thinking we would be repainting the house, I had originally chosen this color scheme.
![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_O38QHzM0tzw/TO30861g_6I/AAAAAAAAC4M/sdPY1-dXLzE/s200/image025.png)
![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_O38QHzM0tzw/TO308vBmmdI/AAAAAAAAC4E/K9uOgAUbtzg/s200/BCE002.bmp)
But if we end up re-siding the house, we have the opportunity to use stained shingles, which will definitely expand our choices. I have been enjoying cruising around the Historic Media Old House Colors website. They show a pallet of stained shingles dating from 1912 (coincidentally, the year our house was built).
![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_O38QHzM0tzw/TUuhDhV7TPI/AAAAAAAADAI/tO05ql4piNU/s200/image055.png)
![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_O38QHzM0tzw/TUuhDcDzRrI/AAAAAAAADAA/J5UNHisECOc/s200/image053.png)
![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_O38QHzM0tzw/TUuhC-sDVvI/AAAAAAAAC_4/jU0VzegqwLo/s200/image051.png)
![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_O38QHzM0tzw/TUuhCiZIkAI/AAAAAAAAC_w/DPsYisUtblQ/s200/image049.png)
I'd like to go with the dark green shingles, but I can't find any good pictures of houses with that color. And I'm not brave enough to just wing it. Though, I found these pictures in burgundy/red that look pretty nice (also lifted from the Old House Colors website).
![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_O38QHzM0tzw/TUuiZdplqsI/AAAAAAAADAY/JWZ4FVR_oRY/s400/image017.png)
![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_O38QHzM0tzw/TUuiZAD0ALI/AAAAAAAADAQ/O4r4RTRvmrQ/s400/image019.png)
Finally found one! Dug it out of my Bungalow Colors: Exteriors book by Robert Schweitzer (pg 57). We may just have to audition this color scheme for the new exterior of this house!
![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_O38QHzM0tzw/TUurTcLdIGI/AAAAAAAADAw/GSeK5Cq24fE/s400/GreenBungalowExteriorColors.jpg)
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