One of the immediate wish list items when we bought our house was to repaint the exterior. While it's reddish brown color was probably all the rage in the 70's, it's now a far cry from cool. In fact, it just makes me depressed. The shed is brown. The garage in brown. The decks are brown. Everything is the same shade of brown! I can't even handle it.

I love the look of cool grey or black mixed with cedar wood. We need to redo all of our decks at some point, so I've been using these house as inspiration for what we can do with the house when the clouds start raining money down upon us. Until then, welcome to Brownville.