Please tell me which of these you like the most
#11
11-02-2006, 05:18 AM
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Originally Posted by roadhog
I've never been afraid of B's.
As to your remodeling inwhich you ask us to, shudder to think........ I like the first example...Blue Green. Your deck boards will fade to silver/gray like the old ones and you'll want to brighten things up from that base color. With the Blue Green color...you can leave the post as it is, but I'd recommend painting it with the same shudder color. I can only go by the narrow view I see...I don't know the scheme of the rest of the house or area. (roof, gutters, trim, flower boxes, doors, etc.) It would have been nice to see a trimboard dressing the bottom under the deck boards, and then you could forget placing plants to trim that. Be allot less maintenance. I know as I grow older...I seek less yard work. Another simple thought. I always place varmit screening to prevent critters from taking up residence under the deck. May God be with you, if a Skunk favors this lovely new CritterCondo. This is all still a passion of mine. I was a Residential Builder for 28 years. I wanted to tell you that I thought your choice, the blue green, was the most arty. I love it. And I hadn't seen how that color works better with the post, the blue post. I also had told you, in the lost post, that when the old deck was removed you could see that something was living under the house... there were pears lined up... and slightly gnawed. At first I was going to get a trap... but then I saw a squirrel in the yard (never saw one here before) and I read on the net that ground squirrels live in the ground. In Wisconsin, where I'm from, squirrels live in trees.) I love squirrels, so I had the builders be careful of the hole, to not stop it up at all. The skunk thing is a little worrying, since during the summer when the windows are open I can smell them at night... But my house is about the height of a house higher than the house in front of mine, and there's a fence all the way around, so I don't think skunks are going to do the climbing to get in here, when there are probably just as good places that aren't so difficult to approach. Thank you SO much for your post. I really appreciate your help!!!!!
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#12
11-02-2006, 05:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Rev.Vassago
Sage Green or Dusty Darker Green.
Definately not the Blue Green. Nice deck, BTW - is that Cedar? And I would lose that blue post - paint it a neutral color.  Thank you for giving me the benefit of your vision!!!! I think the sage green works well with the natural colors in this area... and I love that dusty darker green. The deck is redwood. I got red wood because it won't rot like the old wood. I could so easily have broken my foot or ankle or even my leg or hip if the rotted boards had broken. I had no idea they were so thin in places. So, when I considered what it would cost to break a bone, I thought I'd spend more and get a sturdier, longer lasting wood. I'm glad you like the way it looks.
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#13
11-02-2006, 05:24 AM
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Originally Posted by roadhog
Hey Rev....
 :lol:  BBllaaaPPPPBBBLLLFFFFTTTTtttttGAKslobber ..at least we agree on the Green. :? :lol: Not everyone has an artist's eye!
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11-02-2006, 05:26 AM
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Originally Posted by wot i life
I See in black and white...... :lol: :lol:
Which raises the question... I wonder if the most attractive gray to you, would coincide with the most attractive green, were you able to see the matching colors.... ?????????????
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#15
11-02-2006, 03:27 PM
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I was so hoping more people would give me their impressions...
Please?
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#17
11-03-2006, 01:54 PM
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aesthetics?
I was wondering how truck driver aesthetics worked. So far, so good.
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#18
11-03-2006, 03:21 PM
the truck's parked right around the corner :P
i like the sage green shutters, that colour is muted like the base colour of the house. i'd brighten it up with window boxes planted with marigolds, something purple and trailing ivy. and as much as you might like squirrels, they're rodents and gnaw/eat insulation and would think nothing of moving in your walls or attic for the winter. try waking up at 2am to the sound of a couple of them having a late night argument in your ceiling :roll: and you'll be getting out the screening real quick. :shock: 
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11-03-2006, 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by vavega
the truck's parked right around the corner :P
i like the sage green shutters, that colour is muted like the base colour of the house. i'd brighten it up with window boxes planted with marigolds, something purple and trailing ivy. and as much as you might like squirrels, they're rodents and gnaw/eat insulation and would think nothing of moving in your walls or attic for the winter. try waking up at 2am to the sound of a couple of them having a late night argument in your ceiling :roll: and you'll be getting out the screening real quick. :shock: I was thinking about window boxes... but then I thought I'd get some more of the big pots and set them under the window... (I think they will hold water better, too.) And, I've been looking at purple flowers. Thank you!!!!!!! So Much!!!!! the squirrels, on the other hand... I was so worried that the squirrel wasn't going to come back... It hadn't eaten any of the pear I put under the deck so it would know it was welcome.... But, tonight there was a partially gnawed pear on the edge of the deck. So I think it put it there. I'm really very happy about it. I think maybe New Mexico homes are different. I remember noises in the walls when I was a kid living in a frame house in Wisconsin. I had a mouse when I lived in London... I'd filled the cracks in the floor with paper mache... and the mouse loved it... Everyone said I didn't have "a mouse," but one night I caught it in a big candy jar, they have mammoth candy jars there, or did, and there were no mouse noises while it was in the jar. I was also sort of amazed at how it almost seemed to hang by its tail some of the time... I think it escaped. I can't remember letting it free. And I know it didn't stay in the jar... Which of course reminds me of bubonic and fleas... did you happen to see the program on climate or volcanoes... I forget which. But it talked about a volcano that major errupted -- this is centuries and centuries ago... maybe 1400 years ago... though I'm bad at math. It turns out that the dust from the volcanic erruption was so fine that it stayed in the air for a year... or longer, and that led to cooling because it cut out sun light... there were a few written accounts of the sunlight being pale for a year... Well, when it's cold, a flea that has the bubonic bacteria in it gets a sort of... I forget, but a little blockage... and that keeps the flea from getting nutrition no matter how much it eats, so it's always hungry and bites a lot lot more because it's starving.... Soooo. I wish we'd use some of our scientific knowledge to develope a BIG FAN we could use from space, if Yellowstone were to blow... Apparently Yellowstone is a super volcano... but actually, I'm not sure I remember that right. The rest of it is pretty accurate. Well, thank you SOOOOO much. (the connection to the color of the house is really good to notice, I hadn't seen it.)
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11-03-2006, 03:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Rev.Vassago
Sage Green or Dusty Darker Green.
Definately not the Blue Green. Nice deck, BTW - is that Cedar? And I would lose that blue post - paint it a neutral color. I wasn't supposed to get redwood, was I? I bet it's the kind of wood that people who are really aware of things like that try to protect. When I got it, I was thinking about this picnic table we had when I was a kid... it was cheap from Sears... and the wood was so lasting, so sturdy, to impervious to the weather. But as soon as I read your message I realized I should have gotten cedar. Thank you... I sure wish I'd thought this out more clearly before I got redwood. Thank you again for your enlightening message.
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