{"id":91,"date":"2007-09-30T16:07:19","date_gmt":"2007-09-30T23:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=91"},"modified":"2007-09-30T16:07:19","modified_gmt":"2007-09-30T23:07:19","slug":"thoughts-on-exterior-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on exterior colors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/kasselgermany723am.jpg\" title=\"kasselgermany723am.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/kasselgermany723am.jpg\" alt=\"kasselgermany723am.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notice the color scheme on the house in the background. The roof appears to be tile, the exterior appears to be brick &#8212; natural colors. But the windows are stark white. The house is in Germany. Love that steep, flared roof.<\/p>\n<p>The stark white window frames gave me a new idea for the exterior of my gothic cottage. The roof will be metal shingles, the color of an old galvanized washtub. For the wooden siding, I plan to use a gray, weathered stain &#8212; tree trunk color. Andersen windows come in only four exterior colors &#8212; a light brown sand color, a darker brown, a dark green, and white. None of those colors seemed quite right, but I was thinking of going with dark green.<\/p>\n<p>But I wonder, since the bay window on the first floor and the gothic window on the second floor are such an important part of the character of the house, if they wouldn&#8217;t look quite striking with white frames. If you&#8217;ve got a gothic window, flaunt it!<\/p>\n<p>Use your imagination on the grayscale image:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/gothic-cottage-bw.jpg\" title=\"gothic-cottage-bw.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/gothic-cottage-bw.jpg\" alt=\"gothic-cottage-bw.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notice the color scheme on the house in the background. The roof appears to be tile, the exterior appears to be brick &#8212; natural colors. But the windows are stark white. The house is in Germany. Love that steep, flared roof. The stark white window frames gave me a new idea for the exterior of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=91\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thoughts on exterior colors&#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-91","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\/91","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=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}