{"id":719,"date":"2008-07-29T17:52:34","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T00:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=719"},"modified":"2008-07-29T17:52:34","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T00:52:34","slug":"color-schemes-for-the-gothic-cottage-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=719","title":{"rendered":"Color schemes for the gothic cottage &#8212; help!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/red-gothic-cottage.jpg' title='red-gothic-cottage.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/red-gothic-cottage.jpg' alt='red-gothic-cottage.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/green-gothic-cottage.jpg' title='green-gothic-cottage.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/green-gothic-cottage.jpg' alt='green-gothic-cottage.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in the final stages of negotiation with a builder for the exterior of my gothic cottage. I&#8217;ve determined that I just can&#8217;t afford a metal roof and that I must fall back to a conventional 30-year asphalt shingle roof. That also means that I must pick a color. One can make an argument for roof colors like brown or gray. But I&#8217;m intrigued by the idea of something a bit bolder than that. There are many roofing colors, but window colors are much more limited. My siding will be white pine, which is a yellow at first, then a kind of warm gold, and then, eventually, weathered gray.<\/p>\n<p>Here are quick-and-dirty sketches that I put together in Gimp (an open source program that does what Photoshop does). I would be delighted and honored if anyone has comments on these two color schemes or if anyone has suggestions for other color schemes. I need to make a decision soon, because I may be only a couple of weeks away from starting construction.<\/p>\n<p>Some extra blur may help to stimulate the imagination:<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/red-gothic-cottage-blur.jpg' title='red-gothic-cottage-blur.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/red-gothic-cottage-blur.jpg' alt='red-gothic-cottage-blur.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/green-gothic-cottage-blur.jpg' title='green-gothic-cottage-blur.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/green-gothic-cottage-blur.jpg' alt='green-gothic-cottage-blur.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the final stages of negotiation with a builder for the exterior of my gothic cottage. I&#8217;ve determined that I just can&#8217;t afford a metal roof and that I must fall back to a conventional 30-year asphalt shingle roof. That also means that I must pick a color. One can make an argument for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=719\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Color schemes for the gothic cottage &#8212; help!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}