We had two options for painting the house in the dark blue-grey of my dreams: 1) Paying some dudes to do it, somewhere in the five-figure range, or 2) doing it ourselves, which would be significantly cheaper but cost us many weekend days’ worth of labour. Continue reading »
(Historic facade in Cape Town; via House and Leisure.)
How do you feel about dark painted houses? Charcoal, navy, black, graphite, slate…? In case you hadn’t guessed: I’m into them. Dark colours recede nicely into their surroundings, and cool dark tones look SO GOOD against warm timber. Continue reading »
This outdoor wall used to be covered in ivy. You know that story. It looked pretty lousy after we removed the ivy, but we freshened up the colorbond and things are looking good.
A lot of people would have been perfectly happy with the old ivy wall: a green ivy blanket covering up the boring colorbond sheathing, with geraniums and wisteria woven through it. Continue reading »