Red House Gallery
Marty and I are trying to figure out what we want to do with the outside of our house. It clearly needs to be painted (we'll keep it red, of course), and we'd like to get a new front door (not another brown one) and possibly add some trim in a contrasting color. We probably won't get to this until next year at the earliest, with all the other projects going on. So we have some time to figure out what we want.
With that in mind, yesterday we went out on a Red House Safari, looking for red houses of a similar style and/or age to ours, to see what people are doing to them. Many of the red houses around these parts have white trim, but that's a look I'm not very fond of. Too barn-like, somehow. But there are other options. Yesterday we found two that we liked to varying degrees.
Red House Number 1 (left) has a very dark green front door, with narrow windows on both sides of the door. This is my favorite configuration for the door. I would very much like to get some of those windows next to our door to lighten up the front hall. When we first drove by this house, we thought the door was black. We have seen a few red and black houses, and they do look very sharp, but I'm just not sure if black is right for our door. (This is when Marty always sings, "I see a red door and I want to paint it black...")
House No. 1 is a very similar style to ours, classic colonial, although I have no idea when it was built. Our house (built in 1765) has larger windows than this one, which I'm very glad about. But I like how this house isn't hiding behind all those huge bushes like ours is. (And I'm certain that neither those bushes nor the larger windows are original to our house.)
Red House Number 2 (right) has a lot going on. Its trim is a kind of forest green ("too Christmassy" says Marty). I do like the piece above the front door (somewhat obscured by the flag above those white benches). I don't know what you call that thing, but I like it. The shutters are nice but our house doesn't really have room for them between the front windows. Check out those tiny little windows on the second floor!
So we are still looking around for inspiration. If you have any red houses you'd like to share, please send 'em here.
Marty and I are trying to figure out what we want to do with the outside of our house. It clearly needs to be painted (we'll keep it red, of course), and we'd like to get a new front door (not another brown one) and possibly add some trim in a contrasting color. We probably won't get to this until next year at the earliest, with all the other projects going on. So we have some time to figure out what we want.
With that in mind, yesterday we went out on a Red House Safari, looking for red houses of a similar style and/or age to ours, to see what people are doing to them. Many of the red houses around these parts have white trim, but that's a look I'm not very fond of. Too barn-like, somehow. But there are other options. Yesterday we found two that we liked to varying degrees.
Red House Number 1 (left) has a very dark green front door, with narrow windows on both sides of the door. This is my favorite configuration for the door. I would very much like to get some of those windows next to our door to lighten up the front hall. When we first drove by this house, we thought the door was black. We have seen a few red and black houses, and they do look very sharp, but I'm just not sure if black is right for our door. (This is when Marty always sings, "I see a red door and I want to paint it black...")
House No. 1 is a very similar style to ours, classic colonial, although I have no idea when it was built. Our house (built in 1765) has larger windows than this one, which I'm very glad about. But I like how this house isn't hiding behind all those huge bushes like ours is. (And I'm certain that neither those bushes nor the larger windows are original to our house.)
Red House Number 2 (right) has a lot going on. Its trim is a kind of forest green ("too Christmassy" says Marty). I do like the piece above the front door (somewhat obscured by the flag above those white benches). I don't know what you call that thing, but I like it. The shutters are nice but our house doesn't really have room for them between the front windows. Check out those tiny little windows on the second floor!
So we are still looking around for inspiration. If you have any red houses you'd like to share, please send 'em here.
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