1. Summer status could not be more official around here because of one thing...paint.
2. It annual painting season...something around the house has to be painted. But this is the first time that something truly HAS to be painted...the thirty-six other times was just because I wanted to.
3. When we got vinyl siding several years ago we left some wood uncovered on the house so we could change the color if we wanted to. Well now the wood is looking worn and dingy so it's time.
4. We have had two rounds of consultation with color specialists (a.k.a. my mom and her best friend). Here's the pile of rejects from today...
5. Round three will consist of prospective colors being painted onto the wood up by the 2nd story windows since that wood needs to be replaced altogether.
6. My color specialists and I have narrowed the choices down to blue, green, red and yellow.
7. Which pretty much sounds like a preschool classroom.
8. As I told the color specialists today I am willing to do ridiculous things inside (for instance I'll move bedroom furniture into the dining room...create numerous painted squares and rectangles...and now even hang a chalkboard in the living room) but outside is a completely different story.
9. Which is why I'll be worried when my neighbor's see a romper room's worth of paint samples going up.
10. But I can't wait to take a picture of our (temporary) technicolor dream house.
