It begins

The painter is starting on the woodwork Monday. He has been at the house all week taping and sanding so that he can spray the wood starting Monday. We are so excited. I think just the white wood will lighten everything up so much and give this great house a fresh, new look. It's been nice having him there working on the house during week because it feels like we are making progress, but we don't have to be the ones there doing it.

Afte agonizing over whites (who knew there were so many?!). We settled on a Benjamin Moore shade called White Dove. The grey we've picked (actually, narrowed down to. We won't be able to make any final decisions until the wood is white) is a bit of a warmer grey, which was necessary to go with the couches and chair we already purchased, so we needed a white with a hint of yellow, but not too much.

Benjamin Moore Decorator's White was too cool and bright for us:

And Sherwin Williams Dover White was way too yellow and antique looking:

White Dove was perfect (believe me, we looked at a lot more than three!). It's amazing how different these look up against the bright white computer background because the differences in person side-by-side are far more subtle. Realistically, we probably would have been happy with any of them, but we are excited to see how White Dove looks on our walls!

Now for pictures of the house in it's current state. All of the windows have been taped off, so the house from the outside looks like an abandoned property!