Painted, Finally!

Yesterday morning Jose the Painter showed up with the right color paint, and a truck and ladders and a crew and everything and we finally got our cedar painted!!! I was holding out for some sunshine before posting a picture, but as soon as the crew finished up yesterday the clouds rolled in and it's been dreary and raining off and on ever since. So I finally gave up. Here's a picture of the newly-painted house in the drizzle:

I did not manage to take a before picture unfortunately, but here is a picture of the house shortly before we bought it (this was the picture that the previous owners took for the listing. You can see that the cedar is stained a dark brown color and if you look closely you can see it was starting to fade in places even two years ago when this picture was taken. So two years later the stain was worn away in many places thanks to the sun exposure we get. The new stain we chose is a solid stain (versus semi-transparent) so it should protect better against the sun. We also had our shutters and front door painted black (they were green previously)

Before (way before):