Starting to paint the exterior

As I mentioned earlier, we are going to change t he color of the trim on the windows, reverting back to the original Cherokee Red color beloved by Wright. You can imagine this color in your mind by thinking of an old red barn sitting out in the sun in the farmlands of Wisconsin. This is a color that Wright grew up with, and you see over and over again in his houses, from Taliesin to the Usonian genre. I have a photo of the house with these colors in a previous post. Oh heck, here it is again:

I will, of course, update our true colors once they are up.

But first a little pallet cleanser of sunrises over Lake Michigan:

That was not intended to get you in the mood for red, but heck, whatever works.

Now, here are some colors being auditioned. (The background you see here is the door of our Houston house. Synchronicity)

We are also having the concrete cleaned up around the house.

I can dig up some "before" photos if there is demand, but since I am seldom overwhelmed by comments, I will probably just let this be.

The guy does a fantastic job

Jayke Orvis is the concrete guy. We hope to see him perform sometime later this month. I will report back.

It is not pleasant around the house with all the sanding, scraping, and to-ing and fro-ing by the crew.

But good work requires good prep.