Thank you - seeing it is helpful. Love the blue curtain panels.
I spent some last night browsing coffee table styles. Thinking something like this, but in a lighter finish - maple or cherry. I like the idea of the oversized table being accessible to both the sofa and loveseat.
Thatâs a crazy price for something so simple. But since you said your husbandâs a professional furniture maker, the cost of this one doesnât matter to you.
I like that coffee table. My parents used to have something of a similar size, maybe even bigger and it was well loved. My youngest brother has it now. It was actually a Japanese dining table designed for sitting on a tatami floor.
We are replacing the siding on our home due to age and damage from having insulation blown in. Looking at Hardie siding, which means it will be expensive and not something that we would be painting regularly. We had been leaning toward a gray color similar to what we have now. A salesman recommended a green color (mountain sage) which we have come to like. We are not sure if we will live here another 5 years or 20, but do want a color that would appeal to a buyer. I am concerned that the green might not have as wide an appeal down the road as the gray would. Gray is a fairly common color in our neighborhood but green is not. Thoughts? The house is a split entry on a wooded lot in MA.
Sample of one. I really donât like the color green at all. But I am sure there are buyers who do.
I sayâŠget what you like and want.
I would be really attracted to the right green in a certain scenario - wooded lot, not surburbia lot being one of them. Do you have shutters? What color would they be - any other accents on the home? (Stone, brick, etc.). A lot of gray houses all in a row makes me yawnâŠ.
But agreed that you should get what you are drawn to - especially if youâll still be there awhile. Would you be the only âcolorâ in the nearby neighborhood?
Sage can be a great color for a house if done right.
Iâm personally sick of grey and brown which seem to be the standards here in Seattle area. So depressing, especially when the winter sky is grey. We asked the builder of our House1 with hardie siding to paint it sky blue, and it was the only blue house in the entire âhood. It was easy to give directions: the blue house off the long private drive with several homes. 
And when we sold it 18 years later, the new owners did not mind the color, but it was time to repaint, and they chose a darker, almost royal-navyish blue. I think it is still the only blue house in that âhood. The blue theme continues here at House2⊠whoever gets it after us can nuke the whole thing. We did the painting ourselves (our neighbors watched us balancing on ladders and said it was like watching a scary movie, lol).
So my lessons learned here: a paint job on Hardie can last 18 years. And buyers will not mind the color if the rest of the house suits their needs. If they donât like it - there is always a bucket of paint and some brushes.
In my neighborhood, many are choosing white- seems to be replacing grey. Even those with brick homes ( common where I live ) are painting their bricks white ( I would never paint our bricks). Occasionally I see some shade of blue which is what I prefer but honestly the outside color would not sway me one way or another if I liked most other things about the home.
The suggestion is to do away with the shutters and have the windows âpicture framedâ in white. All trim would be white. If we went with the green I would switch the front door out for a dark wood perhaps. Not sure about the garage doors. We are not out in the woods but on a large suburban lot that backs upon conservation land, so lots and lots of trees around. My concern is that the green may be outdated in 10 years. The siding can be painted, so I guess it would be possible for a buyer to change the color.
Looked at the example here: Mountain Sage | James Hardie and I think it looks terrific. Iâm one who is thoroughly sick of gray. Ours is the Hardiboard charcoal gray which I picked because when we pulled of the aluminum siding that was the color of the original 1924 shingles.
I love the color green but it seems to be the âinâ color right now. I would be worried for resale down the road, especially for a hardiplank material that canât really be re-painted. Personally Iâd go with a more neutral color.
Hardi is the easiest thing to repaint! Just like wood, but without the need to deal with peeling old paint.
But it doesnât need to be repainted.
Paint will eventually fade. So one might want to repaint because of that. Or if one gets tired of the color.
Personally, I would use pre-primed Hardie and go with a custom paint project instead of picking a pre-painted board.
Have you been happy with the Hardie siding? We are not fans of vinyl siding and it is not common in our town. Woodpeckers love our wood siding so we would rather not go with that, but Hardie is very expensive. It is hard to make that big of an investment when we are not sure how many more years we will be here, but it is our preferred option.
@Tyberius - after owning a house with Hardie, we chose Hardieplank to reside our current house. This material has been time-tested and seems to add to resale value, at least in our rainy PNW.
I like the prepainted Hardie products. We had the Hardie planks on a previous house and are using the Hardie shingles in the gable over a porch. On the new house I chose Cobblestone because the brick I chose is also light, but not white. I liked their Monterey Taupe and Timber Bark, but decided theyâre too dark for our situation.
The cold grey trend seems to have been replaced by both warm greys and deep greens as well as navy. If you love the Mountain Sage then go for it. I think that would be very pretty on a house surrounded by trees up north.
I really, really like that Mountain Sage, especially with that clean, crisp window trim. I would not have any hesitation with that particular color. Itâs not a fad hue. Gray with those windows would look good, too, but I think Iâd opt for the green.
@Tyberius, go with what your gut likes. Itâs your house. The next owner can easily repaint if they want to. As a buyer, I would never pass on a house due to external paint color.
I love the sage green. But if it feels too out of your comfort zone choose something more neutral.
Love it. We put it in eight years ago, it still looks new.