The Exterior Painting

This week we worked! It took all week but the house is painted. Jonny worked with me 3 days and Mike was here in the mornings and one afternoon.
The house is silver-sage gray and the trim is a gray avocado. The doors are red-orange, kind of bright! They do look good with the brick fireplace. I thought the paint was a Chinese red, but it is really a dark orange. A very nice contract with the gray walls.
The agent we are working with choose the colors.

The concrete slab in the back yard was not a planned expense. We have had so much rain here that there is moss on the garage roof! The garage roof drains to the yard between the garage and the south side of the house. There isn't any slope and the ground stays wet for weeks. The water can't drain off. Also this old house is stuccoed all the way to the ground. The water wicked up between the foundation and the stucco under the wall studs and into the the two south bedrooms. I didn't want to disclose that the house has a flooding problem. We fixed the water damage and killed the mold on the walls, but we thought that the water was coming in from an improperly installed window. We had the window sealed and stucco framed to fix the problem.
I guess I should be glad that we had big rain storms to show us that we didn't fix the problem. However, since putting in the patio slab Mom and Dad's and the girl's old rooms have stayed dry. I plan to put up a rain gutter on the garage also for good measure. With California's disclosure laws I have to tell about the water damage that was repaired, but I want to be able to describe how we fixed the underlining problem.

The garage was hard to paint Christopher got us a 12 foot later. We had to climb up onto the roof to get the green paint on the trim. It is done now except for a facia board ( warning to all of us painting every 12 years or so is not enough protection for wood work) that got rotted on the west side and touch-ups.