This week, the weather was very cooperative, and the siding is now finished! It's weird how after looking at the pictures in the book for so long it just looks so familiar to us now that it's here in the flesh, so to speak. I just love it. 
Yesterday, we tested out some paint from Home Depot, Behr ultra premium plus, in ultra pure white. After letting one coat dry, it did look great, and there was just a miniscule difference after two coats. While I can't say this is always the case, we've been very fortunate for find someone in the paint dept. at our local Home Depot who really does know paint and has offered us a lot of helpful information. One thing she pointed out is that we need to wait until after Easter to paint so that the pollen won't be such an issue. It's hard to wait, but there are plenty of other things we can get to work on in the meantime. Speaking of paint, Behr has a really neat virtual painting center that you can upload your own pictures to and try out different paint colors on. Go to Behr.com and then go to the explore color tab and click on launch ColorSmart. Of course, the screen skews it some, but it was nice for getting ideas. We have just about decided for sure on white with a barn red door. At some point, we want to do phase 2 and add a big porch, and in my mind I can just see an old fashioned white farmhouse.
This tree stands in our front yard. I'm trying to get photos of it in all four seasons to have as a framed set in the house.
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