Time to paint the house!

So one of our MAJOR painting projects is coming up...the exterior painting of our home. We are so excited for this and planning and scheming on what color we want to paint it. Since we feel now like the dull grey blue and dark blue trim are boring and doesn't make the house have much curb appeal. We decided that we want to do a dark blue with a bright white trim and I really really really wanted a light yellow front door. Originally we were going to go with a red front door but I feel like everyone is doing that right now. Don't get me wrong I think red doors are incredibly beautiful and love them but I just wanted to be different. Plus the front entry way to our house doesn't get much light so adding the light yellow door we feel will really brighten the place up and make it more welcoming :)

So we have gone back and forth over hiring someone to do the work for us while we focus on finishing up painting everything else inside our house. Even though we would be paying more money to hire someone! They would have in done in a matter of days and we would have to take a week off of work and pray for nice weather and bust our behinds!! Not saying we are not up for a good painting challenge....Lord knows we are not afraid to slap some paint on something! We recently contacted about 3-4 painting companies and are waiting for the bids to come back in. Then we will try to add up the cost of us doing it all ourselves and make a decision. While we have been waiting on that I have found a few programs that would let us mock paint our house to see what colors we like. Below is a photo from the KellyMoore site of a basic house with the colors we want to use. We were told to pick from their list of "Stock" colors. I guess the have lots of it premixed at the store and it also lasts longer on your house. The main blue stock color is called called "Night Sky" the trim will be a stock white called "Swiss Mocha" then I photo shopped in a yellow door just so you can see what our overall vision is.

Then I took a recent photo of our house and painted it on another online paint program that Sherwin-Williams offers on line for free you just need to upload a photo of your house and manually draw out the areas you want painted and select the colors. The color I choose was as close as I could get to the KellyMoore color we want to use.

So what do you think of our choice? Doesn't it make the house look SOOO much nicer and modern? We are super excited to get this process started and see the finish product. Hopefully we will start the painting in the next month! We wanted to have it painted before our open house party in June! Stay tuned everyone for the BIG reveal on this one!