popular color choices for garage walls??
lnprasumi
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Comments (27)Elaine, Interesting observation. I personally believe that the birds are somehow driven to the berries around the middle to end of August. If I'm not mistaken that is when the dogwood berries ripen. I find that my bluebirds disappear around then only to return in the winter. Someone hypothesized that they need the sugar to bulk up for the winter. Not sure if that is true or not, but maybe that is why you notice the chokeberry eaten at the same time. I have some junkie trees that were growing when I bought the place 20 years ago. Someone told me they were chokecherry, but I've never been sure. From my research, they look like black cherry. I know that when we have taken a couple down and left the stump, shoots start coming out of the stump like crazy. They do grow quickly and the branches break easily in the wind. The birds love them, so we usually leave them up. They have small branch type things in the spring covered with lacy white flowers. Then the berries grow on the little branches. I know I'm not using proper terminology, so forgive me. Can anyone help with an id?...See MoreChoices for green wall; moss rock or camouflaged cinderblock wall
Comments (5)Thank you Yardvaark. Meditarranean refers to the climate, though I do also like Meditarranean gardens. English garden means some hedges, crucnchy paths, relaxed, busy with layers of flowers, as lush as we're able to make it, useful plants mixed between ornamentals, some trailing the ground, some climbing vertically, pops of color. My mum is English. The gardens she grew up with and the she kept as I grew up. Rough guides for us. Here are better photos. The yard is super bumpy from the the bobcat sinking into wet clay soil when we pulled up all the concrete. We've had to wait for the soil to dry. The bobcat is coming back to grade and smooth. This is the left side with the cinder block retaining wall. If we planted a hedge, it would go in front of the cinder blocks. If we build a moss rock wall, the wall would be built in front of the cinder blocks and would wrap over them. The fence is actually straight - the crookedness is from the panoramic scan. The fence with all lattice has no retaining wall right now. After it's graded, the area in front of the lattice will be a 3' wall as it's the high point of the yard and we're taking out 1' of dirt. It's only a 2' wall at the other end. Close up of the area we'd potentially plant vines. It's above the wall, in front of the fence. Plenty of weeds there before, bamboo and blackberries. You can see the side yard. That gate at the end gets replaced and moved back a good 10'. It was all concrete. The kitchen is by the gate, so we'll put herbs, small BBQ and a place to eat over there. I'm thinking pavers with green in between. The side yard passes 3 rooms, so we'll put arbors to create slightly different areas to look out of from each room, and to give a sense of passing through slightly different spaces to get to the backyard. This the same area from the other direction, facing the concrete garage wall at the back of the yard. If we go hedge, it would be planted right at the wall, where the dying cala lilies are, growing towards the fence for its depth. And a panoramic of the retaining wall side in two images, slightly warped from the panoramic scan. This shows the concrete wall that used to be the back of the garage. Please excuse the leftover tree bits. We did battle with a monstrous Blackwood Acacia that was crushing the neighbor's roof. No warping. This is the lumpy yard. Back of the yard. I'd love rose vines covering all of this. Something. Right side of the yard. The white wall is the downhill neighbor's garage, right on the property line. It was under 18" of dirt when we moved in. I excavated it and we're grading to this height to keep her garage wall exposed. The garden actually extends beyond this photo. There's about 5' width that runs 4'-10' along the side of the house, depending on where we move the fence. And finally, the existing back of the house. We're extending that room so the house is a square - where the green bin is will be house. That slider will be replaced with a 10' French sliding door. The small window will be replaced and moved. The metal siding will be gone. There will be a deck along the entire back of the house, about 5' deep. We're grading to the level of the house. The rickety fence on the left will be moved back and replaced....See MoreGarage door and exterior color choices for our house?
Comments (4)The attention-getter glass doors instantly become the dominant feature of the house. Is that what you want? If you just want more light in the garage, add more fixtures to the interior lighting and paint the garage interior bright white. Put in a garage door with a row of windows up top. Add a new garage door opener with two light bulbs, too. I suggest you get the landscape pruning crew in to do the major cleanup, then take more photos instead of using google streetview. Painters prefer to have a whole foot of space between the plants and walls. The two story bougainvillea can be tied back while they paint. Sage green walls with white windows would look good. Terracotta accents. Flip through this link for other ideas: https://www.houzz.com/photos/mediterranean/exterior/query/sage-green...See MorePaint Color of Gray for Interior Garage Walls
Comments (7)If you're not going to paint all of the walls white, as saypoint mentions, I would do the upper half white and the bottom half grey. This is what our basement laundry room in the prewar apartment building I grew up in had; the top half was maximized for brightness and the bottom half was maximized to conceal scuffs, dings, etc. I believe the shade was the usual "battleship grey" : ) ....See Morelnprasumi
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