There was a time when hunter green was all the rage. I thought it looked lovely in other people’s homes and in the magazines…
But about 3 minutes after I finished hanging the hunter green wallpaper across the entire lower half of our master bedroom, I realized the color just wasn’t for me.
Little did I know that one day I’d live in a home with hunter green trim… and a hunter green deck… and a hunter green door… and hunter green gutters on the garage… and a hunter green roof on the guest cabin in our yard…
It hasn’t bothered me all that much. I simply decided to ignore it.
Ignoring it is no longer an option.
See that poor old window on the right side of the picture? Yep… it really needs some paint. Painting the trim on our whole house seems daunting and makes me want to cry. A summer spent outside with my sisters painting our farm’s old barn doesn’t bring back happy memories. (Except for the laughing fits every now and then.)
Prepping old, painted, dried-out bare wood is not my idea of fun…
I decided that if I was going to put so much work into painting the trim, I wanted to end up with a color that I liked!
I went to our local Benjamin Moore store and talked to my favorite paint lady. I showed her pictures and described my hunter green dilemma.
“Do you have any other color suggestions that might work?”
She had an idea and swatches in hand within minutes. (That’s why I love her so!!)
I forced myself to take them home first, just to make sure they looked right in natural light, and then I went back and bought them.
She warned me that the prep work was critical, and said, “Missy, you must not skip a step!”
I agreed with her wholeheartedly and decided to start with a part of the project I could finish in a weekend…
The front door!
Come back tomorrow and I’ll tell you the rest of the story…!
