More Siding

Luckily while the sheet rock has been getting done, we are able to work outside on the siding. Thank heavens it hasn't been raining. We have had some perfect Saturdays to work outside, considering it is only March. I almost got a little sunburned this week. Anyway, my dad has been a trooper helping Matt and I with siding. Matt did most of the back of the house by himself, but has had my dad helping out with the other three sides. We did the entire front of the house on Saturday. There were a lot of trim pieces to cut, which took a lot of time, but it helped having an extra person to hold things in place, cut stuff, nail stuff, etc. I was mostly in charge of cutting pieces on the chop saw. I'm certainly not perfect, but getting better!

We are left now with just the three gables, which will be a little different because they come in big sheets rather than big slats and fit together differently. You can see that we are ready for rock too, so as soon as that is ordered, we will be able to work on that! We are hoping to time it right so that we can be working on trim inside, and the painter can paint outside, then switch and work on rock outside while the painter paints inside. We'll see how it works out in the next couple of weeks.

The gables will be white with the vertical siding. The windows will be trimmed in white and the rest of the horizontal siding will be a brown/gray color. Where you see the black in the picture will all be rock. There will be a white trim just above the rock (it's kind of hard to see in the picture).