Queen Anne Gets a Paint Job, Part 4

Without further ado, here are some pictures of our house WITH PAINT! We've been waiting a long four years for this to happen, and it's finally time. Enjoy~~

All the different colors.

Some color up on the second floor! The teal color is called Blue Echo.

The teal is done.

Alex adds some lime green to the peak. All of the wavy lines will be that color.

The peak in the shade. The trim around the window needs to be painted a cream color, yet, and the storm windows aren't quite done.

The peak in the sun. What a difference! There are four different colors up there: charcoal along the crown moulding, the wavy cedar shakes are a lime green, the zig-zag cedar shakes are more of an olive green, and the squared cedar shakes are the same as the body of the house.

I will post more progress as its being made! Thanks for reading!

Queen Anne Gets a Paint Job, Part 3

The south side. Some people hear that and think of big cities like Chicago. In this case, we are talking about the south-facing side of our 1902 Queen Anne Victorian.

The south side of our home has had some issues. A floating corner that was having a hard time staying afloat. A leaky roof. A dilapidated porch. A weird fire escape??

A while back, our home was a multi-family home, and the second and third floors were used as a boarding house. We're not sure what the municipal code required, but we can only assume that it was during this time that a fire escape was added off the third floor. It was certainly an ugly thing.

The fire escape is visible in the upper left.

Another view of the fire escape.

When Karstin and Alex finished up on the north and east sides of the house, they moved on to the south. They were able to get two days' work done before this happened:

Spring in Wisconsin. Go figure.

We had to wait a bit for the snow to melt and for the ground to dry up a little bit, and the scraping was underway!

Notice how the fire escape is gone. Yay!

Down to the bare wood.

Alex commented that the paint came off really easily on this side of the house, compared to the north and east sides. We're thinking it may have had something to do with how the sun always beats down on this side of the house.

Ready for primer.

Now that the south side was completely scraped and prepped, Karstin and Alex could put some primer on. They decided that some of the primer would be tinted gray, so the darker colors of paint wouldn't need two coats.

Primer's all done. Now to get some color on there.

Check back for updates when the paint gets applied!