GRAY!! with blue accents. I had made my mind up to go with brown, but when we got to the builder's office and started looking through the options I just didn't like any of the browns, so I peeked at the grays. Charles saw me and said "Who cares about the neighbors house? Let's just do gray" I looked at him and said "You're right, this is our dream house and a once in a life time thing for us, so let's do it. Plus 90% of the houses in our development are brown anyways, and the other neighbor is beige so what's the big deal with we do a similar color the other neighbor?" Plus we are doing cooler colors inside so I didn't really want warm colors on the exterior.
Once we decided to go with gray, everything else was super easy to pick. The accent will be the smoky dark blue, the trim will be white and so will the garage doors.
The gray siding looks a little brown in this picture, but it IS gray. =)
I've always heard building a house is stressful....and maybe it will be once the house starts to go up, but right now I'm having so much fun picking out exactly what I want, well for the most part. HGTV has kind of given me expensive taste, but if you can get your style and budget to meet then it's loads of fun. I'm also lucky to have a husband who shares the same taste in style as me. If we would have tried to build a house when we were first married it would have caused a lot of fighting. I loved a minimalism and very contemporary design like this bedroom:
And Charles loved antiques:
But now my tastes in style has changed to a more "homey" feel, and I love mixing the formal with hints of antiquity.
What about you? Do you struggle because you and your spouse have different tastes in style? Have you "melded" together over the years? What is your favorite decorating style and how has it changed over the years?
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