The galloping horse rule

When we started painting our house (which, by the way, was supposed to be done before I planted flowers last spring), we were aiming for perfection. We carefully removed all the peeling paint, made sure there were no spiderwebs in the nooks and crannies, and taped and taped and taped and we might as well have been using a tole-painting brush.

Now that it's November, we're going with the galloping horse rule:
If you ride by on a galloping horse and it looks OK, it's good enough.

As you can see by the pictures, it still doesn't pass the horse test, but I wanted to show that we're at least making progress. We still have to finish the trim, and do lots of touch up, but we're getting there.

Todd spent the better part of Saturday building the lattice "blocker" to hide all our "white-trash" crap. Hopefully in the next few weeks "we" can build window boxes for each of the windows. We'll paint them the darker brown like the chimney to add a little interest.

Does anyone have any suggestions for the color of my front door? I first painted it "shitbrindle" (my favorite color), but I hated it. Now it's the color of the trim, but I think it looks too white. I don't want it the same color as the house, and the chimney color doesn't look good next to the screen door. I could paint the screen door, but I want to leave it dark for now 'cause it makes the dark window frames look okay. When we can afford new windows, I'll probably change the door, but for now I need ideas. It's such a "boring" looking house...I can't wait to plant colorful wave petunias in my window boxes. :o)


It's such a shame that we are SO close to finishing, and yet I think it's finally too cold. We probably need about 8 more hours to finish up the trim and be done, and now I'm afraid it's gonna have to wait until Spring. :o(
There's supposed to be a storm coming in today....sure looks like it, huh?