Exterior | 6+ Years in the Making

The home inspection done over 6 years ago when we bought our house specifically stated that parts of the exterior trim needed to be replaced due to rot and damage. Overall, the trim also needed new paint, and our shutters were fading.

We're finally getting this shit taken care of.

We have a guy - a carpenter who came highly-recommended from neighbors - who is going to be repairing/repainting the trim, and installing new shutters.

Our house's original color scheme was white siding with cranberry shutters and a matching door. The cranberry shutters, however, are this disgusting faded pale purpley red.

My first thought years ago when we talked about replacing the shutters was to go black with them, but then the white siding/hunter green shuttered house across the street from us was flipped, and their shutters were now black. Still a great look, but I knew we had to run changes past the HOA, and they probably wouldn't approve 2 houses in such close proximity to have the same colors.

The color we chose for the shutters is called "Granite," so, gray. Because #grayiseverything.

Look how exciting that image is. Woo.

Although, honestly, I am excited! They're not "real" shutters, as in ones that have the latches and whatnot to function as intended, but none of the houses in our neighborhood do, so spending a small fortune to make the shutters on our house legit was not even up for debate.

That's what we call "Dream House Swag."

Once the HOA responds to our color change request (we should know something on Tuesday), we'll order them and then count down until the end of the month when the fun on our exterior begins.