The Vespiary Book Binding & Book Conservation

The time has come to decide on the face of the shed. Even though this part of the process is the most cosmetic, I feel like it is the most important. I am a slave to Benjamin Moore and so I went to their shop in town to pick some color swatches. The main dilemma is, do we stick with the same sea-foam green palette as the old shed and the rest of the house, or do we go with something radical and new? The dutch-lap wood siding has gone up and we primed it over the weekend. The Benjamin-Moore website has a cool feature (the Personal Color Viewer) that allows you to upload a photo of your house, map out paintable areas, and preview the potential colors. The only downside (at least on my computer) is that I was not getting a good match between the digital swatch and the actual one in my hand. The online versions were much more pastel-like and washed out.

That said, the gif above was made from the 4 general choices I’m going with.

Red = Caliente

Yellow = Firefly

Green = Seedling

Blue-grey = Templeton Grey

And don’t forget what the shed looked like at the beginning of the project!

See, it looks the same, right?