Exterior Paint Reveal!

I'm a regular gal, living in a regular house.  

Is it my dream home?  Honestly, no. 

However, it is a home perfect for us, right now. 

 I love that our home is... 

 in my favorite city in the whole world…. surrounded by lots of trees…..

a size that means we live in every square inch….has endless gardening potential…..

a white kitchen…..hardwood floors….. our own...

Photo taken in full sun.

When we moved in this home just over three years ago we

inherited it's exterior paint color {SW Sea Salt}.  It was a fine

color but I didn't love it as an exterior color. You can see it HERE.

Our home really was due to be painted - it's a cedar sided home

and the Sea Salt was it's original color when the home was 

built just over 10 years ago.

I stressed a lot about what color to choose.  I would have loved to have

painted it white but it just isn't practical in the Pacific Northwest -

we get so much rain and fight moss build up on our exteriors

and roofs all the time.  I knew white would be a bugger to keep clean.

As I debated color options, I made fast friends with the fellas

at my local Benjamin Moore paint dealer Powell Paint Center!

I knew I really wanted to use a quality paint product

and getting the color perfect was very important.

Lucky for me, a new Powell Paint store had opened 

very close to my home so it was so convenient

to zip in and out to get sample size colors.  I am sure

the very helpful guys at Powell Paint thought 

I was a very crazy thorough designer!

In the end, the contenders were BM Soot, BM Hale Navy and the 

ultimate winner BM Abyss which is the color you would get 

if Soot and Hale Navy had a baby.  Our trim is BM Snow White

and the door is color matched to Farrow & Ball 'Light Blue'…..

sorry, I could not justify the F&B price per gallon for my two doors.

I really love it.  I think the dark color is a nice contrast to 

the year-round greenery that surrounds our home.

We did NOT paint it ourselves - we would still be painting!

I have a great painter that I often use for clients that did 

a great job for us.  And I am very grateful to my new

local paint store Powell Paints in Cedar Mill, they were

so helpful and really educated me on the merits of outdoor

paint products - something I just did not know much about.

By using Benjamin Moore paint, I was able to have confidence 

that the color would be accurate and that the paint will 

last for many, many years.

HERE is the post I did on my inspiration for my ultimate choice.