Throwing Some Shade

A few months back we went to Lowes to see what the options are for window shades. Every window in our house is a different size. Just to do the two windows in the second guest bedroom, the price would be about $700.00. Special ordered blinds doesn't include installation. At that price for two windows, I'd like to see them come with installation. Walking away from the shades project until we could research our options, I made good use of our bold solid color sheets. Here we are in the photo above, throwing some green sheet shade from our living room window.

After today our windows should look like this. Mi Miguel is great with installing window shades and coverings. My strength is picking out what would look nice. My weakness is trying to install anything that goes on a window. Except for maybe sheets, I can drape a sheet on a window like no other. 

Right now, I'm just in love with the fact that we only had to pay $500.00 for six window shades. We didn't have to order them and they are the exact same ones we were going to order a few months ago. Maybe not all Lowes can trim shades down to size in-store. Or, maybe there are some other shade fitting requirements that we didn't meet at the other Lowes. It all worked out for the good. We ended up with reasonably priced shades and we have a new best friend that works at our new favorite Lowes. 

Our next big dilemma, what color should we paint our house? If you live in Florida we'd love your feedback on this one. We are down to these three colors. But we're not sure how this color works here in Florida. I rarely see any shade of white on a house in this beautiful Sunshine State. Do people just like going for coastal colors or is the color white not a good thing for some reason?

 

 We're trying to avoid pulling out the peach color in the stone. The Mannequin Cream (far right) has a touch of orange or yellow that we didn't notice until we put it next to the stone. Aged Beige (center) looks a little grey compared to the other shades. And finally, the Hazelnut Cream (far left). 

Mi Miguel and I are finding that we both like the Hazelnut Cream. There doesn't seem to be any yellow, orange, grey or other colors pulling from this shade of white. I painted another strip along the stone to see if it made a difference.

Our main reason for choosing a true cream or some shade of true white is so we can paint our entry door and shutters a different color every three years or so. This is my dream entryway. I love that bold yellow with the cream and shades of green all around it. The next order of business is to find this orange/yellow shade on a swatch and paint a patch next to the stone and Hazelnut and see what happens. It will either look amazing or really clash.  

This evening, I'll power wash the house while Mi Miguel is busy with the shades. If the weather holds up we'll have some version of a white colored house in no time. Goodbye Whatever Shade Peach. Hello Hazelnut Cream.