The Big Debate

Here is the "quarrel" going on in our household right now: what to do about the trim on the front of our house. Let me back up a a bit. Brandon and I have NEVER been fans of the trim color of our house, or our house in general. The trim is blah beige/cream/blahness, and our house is white. We do not have a problem with white, our problem is with the paint job, it should have had 3 coats, it got 1, so it looks dingy. Plus it's old. We would like to replace the siding, but that is definitely a job for down the line, what with all the other actually mandatory improvements we need to make.

Well, on Friday I got adventurous and painted the front door. I will accept no opinions on the color because I LOVE it. So don't offer them unless you agree with me. (Brandon likes the color too, so this is not our debate.) The problem is, our front door is almost entirely obscured by the hideous screen door...it, however serves a purpose, so it can't go. It is also in great shape so replacing it is out of the question. Anyway, the color pop to our house from our front door was a wonderful surprise, however, it's impact wasn't great enough and so we decided (this was a joint decision, mind you) to paint the sidelights flanking the door.

Unfortunately, that is where we ran into a snag. First of all, Brandon is a terrible painter and will not be allowed to participate in painting anything I care about from now on. Besides that, after standing back to assess our work, Brandon decided it looked funny. He thinks we should now paint all of our trim. The problem is, all of our trim connects out front, and around the whole house, and I do not want to paint it all teal. That leaves us with the dilemma of what color to paint our trim...while still leaving our house white. AAGH!

Here are the picture. I made sure to take a pic with the screen door open so you could see the full impact of the color change. The other picture is a before pic so you can compare the before and after. (Sadly, at seeing this, our lawn looks worse than it did before, but trust me, up close it looks a lot better)

I have now come to the conclusion that we will NOT be painting all of our trim. (due to cost, labor, and frustration) However, we are excepting comments on how to possibly enhance our current work with minimal cost/effort. Anyway, let us know what you think, and join the big debate.