Your home has always been one of my favorites!! It oozes southern charm and the yellow color you used just makes it glow in a warm and happy way. That your neighbors choose to copy you is flattery in it's highest form, yet I well understand how it offends your sense of individualism.....that's so sad. Especially after all the work you've done to improve the visual perception from the street. That said, I also love the vibrant red you posted that Squirrelheaven photo shopped - it makes the house stand out, yet in a very positive way, and with your Annabelles in full bloom I can imagine that it would be stunning. So that's my vote, should you decide to repaint. You have a knack for putting together a lovely house image from the street, I'm sure whatever you do will be attractive!

I should admit I've saved your pic from the first time you posted to paint my house. We also have a dark blue roof and I just couldn't figure out what color to paint - for 10 years! So we are finally going to paint this year and it will be yours. But I live in Florida! lol

I love the first mock up posted by squirrel on 6/26 at 14:14: "a silky rich, mossy chartreuse-y color. Lighter and darker versions." What is that color? Also loving the robins-egg blue!

Thanks so much for the continued help and comments!

Dilly .. thanks for your thoughts on posting the pictures.

Enailes .. our trim color is SW Dover white.

Lindseylulu .. welcome to the boards!

Juddgirl .. I bet Squirrel will see this soon, my DH likes the idea of green on the house a lot.

Nanny, thanks so much for the kind comments!

Zipdee, how's it coming on their house? Did I miss an update?

Megsy .. nope, I hadn't updated yet. I've been waiting for them to paint the top dormer, which they finished this morning.

This is not a great picture, it's from my porch .. to get a better one, I'd have to march up to the road take the picture. Then take the chance of explaining what the heck I'm doing. *LOL*

Upside : They are in full sun, we are in full shade .. the color looks a lot lighter on their house because of this.

Downside : I counted the houses on our street that are yellow .. in a four block area now there's 14 yellow houses, 7 blue houses, 2 gray, 5 white, 4 taupe .. the rest are brick. ( No green or red ) It wasn't so bad because we were the only one on this block and it was a totally different yellow for anything surrounding us .. but now that's a different story.

{{!gwi}}

That's really aggravating to have to actually see from your front porch ¡size> Especially since they even Asked for the color : (

Oh, now I see! Yours is similar enough in front structure to make the two appear the same, or like copy-cats. That must be so infuriating! I'd be livid....even though it is a compliment to your design taste.

I am on stun-mode at the moment... I just assumed the house was different enough that maybe the color-stealing would be okay. Now, I see this!

Sadly, I think I'd be whipping out my fandecks, too.

Yup, it's mind boggling .. I knew you guys woulld think so too. Their house is different than our's as far as roof line, porch columns, stuff like that. It's still a 1 1/2 story bungalow type house though and it's close enough in body style to make the whole thing look very strange. :(

I'm not sure what color we're going to re-paint yet, but come this fall when the weather cools a bit and my DH has a little more time, it's in the works. I love the red, but with all the orange/red brick we have, I don't think it's going to work. On each side of us is lighter blue/gray homes. My thoughts turn to green .. my only true worry about green is, we are in the shade and surrounded by trees and greenery .. I'm a little worried the house will just blend in.

Augh! Maddening. But your house is a lot cuter. Your roof goes better with the yellow than theirs does too. You've done so much hard work on your house and it really shows off. It's so adorable.

That's funny that your neighbors won't meet your gaze -- like naughty children who know they've done wrong -- and they did it anyway! How pathetic.

So what are you and your DH thinking now? Planning to just ignore it? Or paint it red?

Yeah, I'd be bummed too. Imitation being the sincerest from of flattery notwithstanding.

I'd still vote for the red as a change. That or the gray/purple color (but then purple is my favorite color...).

Oops .. we were posting at the same time Oceanna :) We are going to re-paint, I'm just not sure what color yet.

Squirrel .. Were greens you put up your own custom blends ? Does anyone have a suggestion to something close to those colors? I'm think something not too brite green, but not really a sage color either. Maybe something a little different than you normally see in the green vaules on most home and would still allow me to keep the cottage type look I've been working on? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks so much for all the help you guys have given me here .. also the shoulder to cry on.

Yes, zipdee, I just use Squirrely mixes.

OMG I'm steaming for you right now. What a major PITA.

I'd paint too. Grrrr.

I really, really love the red. Can we see a pic of your bricks?

Thanks guys for validating my concerns with this.

Megsy .. We have the front brick walk that you see in the pics above. Also around the side of the porch is an original brick patio, brick piers under some of the colunms and the foundation is brick. We covered up the front foundation with lattice because the previous owners did some bad repair work on it, then smeared it with stucco to cover up the issues.

Here's a quick shot of the brick around on the patio and some of the piers, the foundation is the same. This is original to the house and does have an orange cast to it, I don't think a clear red would work with it.

This is two springs ago. I wish I had taken a picture before the storm we got the other day, I have this area all planted with daisies, hanging pots red trailing petunias .. the rain knocked them about flat the other day though, I'm hoping they rebound.

Zipdee, would you be open to a dark grayed green? There is a house not far from mine that has a color that I can't take my eyes off whenever I walk by. It's definitely different. I can try to snap a pic if you're interested.

I might talk about repainting, but I wouldn't do it.

:: It will not look exactly the same as your house, no matter what they do.

:: On the other hand, when you look out your front windows, you will get to see the color that you liked well enough to choose it for your own house.

:: Your neighbors all know that you chose it first.

Bungalow house, thanks so much for the offer, we had a deep taupish/gray/green on the house before we painted it yellow and it was never what I really wanted. I've looked and looked for pictures of the whole house painted that color, but I can just find snips here and there.

Here's the front, before we changed the door back to the original and before we re-did the columns back to the original .. shows the greenish/gray body color and brick red porch and door.

I think these are safe to show .. my baby in this picture is now almost 10 and my oldest is as tall as me. :)

These were taken around on the patio, you can see the variation of brick colors, parts of the foundation are quite orangish .. the patio it's self is not this orange.

Notice my two oldest serious looks and their posture away from their sister .. like they are agreeing, just don't make eye contact with the little one .. it will be okay. ;) Yes my youngest has always had a temper. *LOL*

I would not repaint. Your house is so much nicer with your roof color.
Could you post a new photo of yours with your new plantings.
Perhaps play up your blue roof and have a handpainted blue sign in wood on the wall next to your front door.

Lyban, our roof just looks blue in the pictures, it's really black though. We used black onxy architectural shingles when we re-roofed.

Adorable children! :); :)

I can definetly see now why you are upset. That is just too close in color and style house. Could you do a lighter green with red window details and white/creamish window trim. I've seen this on Sandyponders house and love the look.

I don't think a green will blend too much if you choose one that isn't part of your plantings, which I doubt you'd want anyways. I think it will provide a nice backdrop to it instead.

Thanks Newhomebuilder :) Even these days when my youngest is being grouchy her sisters still stay clear of her. *LOL* Thankfully as she's grown up those times are much more few and far between. ;)

Lyfia .. thank you for the color suggestions. Sandyponder's house is beautiful.

Right now photobucket is down, but as soon as I can get the picture loaded I'll show you guys my favorite red house with black and white striped awning! Yes, I'm still 'lusting' over red, even though it's not a go here. I love the picture where Squirrel made the front brick walk black.

Of course soon as I post photobucket comes back up. I love this house, I know it's shaped nothing like mine at all. See the wall is made out of some dark brick that doesn't clash with the red though. *sigh* I could just see this awning over the back deck.

When you first mentioned red, I thought of this house. I always admire it when I go by it, too.

Could you get a red that doesn't clash with the patio and walk, and then camouflage the foundation brick with plantings? Because you like it so much, and you want something unique in your neighborhood, red seems to be the way to go.

It made me smile to see those three little smiling faces when I opened this thread today! They're precious!

Thanks so much for the picture Bungalow House .. that home is wonderful. Are the porch floor and the step treads painted gray? I think the foundation here would be very easy to hide, it's the walk and patio that would be the challenge. I'm almost wondering if they could be dyed to some how tweak them enough to work?

Thanks AuntJen, I'm glad their pics made you smile. :)

I'm putting these up just cause I told you about them and I'm happy my daisies are rebounding, I was fairly certain they were going to die after picking everyone off the ground. They still are no where near as full, but they're coming back. You can see the stairs coming off the porch onto the patio in the pic.

What about staining the brick? (I just love the red)

I still think you're crazy for painting again so quickly. Your house looks much better. Different roof lines, shakes/shingles on the dormer, door, brick walkway, lattice ... why not add some working shutters to distinguish it even more?

Well, just in case you're still considering the red, I'll give you a picture of mine. It's red with white trim and we're happy with the color choice. Pardon the general ugliness around the house, this was the "before" picture for landscaping (it's only slightly improved at this point - LOL) and I still had beach towels up as blinds in my youngest son's room. One thing I'll throw out there for you that I didn't think about until it came time to start landscaping.... with the red, I've been very hesitant to use many of the available beautiful red plants/flowers, because I'm afraid they'll either disappear against or clash with the house, but that may just be me.

Also, if you're considering darker colors... I've also always loved the look of a dark almost navy-ish blue with white trim and brick and when we were deciding on colors for our house it was back and forth between the red and dark blue. I added a link of this general color combination from the Sherwin Williams color visualizer, for what it's worth. I know the house style isn't exactly like yours, but it had a dark roof and some brick also. Their colors always come out WAY lighter on my monitor than they are on the swatches, so the main color I used actually looks black on the swatch. I made the shutters the same color as the siding, since your house doesn't have shutters. Hope this helps, and good luck with whatever you choose!

Here is a link that might be useful: Sherwin Williams dark blue house

Sorry, I don't think that link worked in that last post, let me try again....

Here is a link that might be useful: SW house

Oh my, it still didn't work! For some reason, when I copy and paste this

http://www.sherwin-williams.com/visualizer/index.html#d=s;i=144;c=2678;p=2678:2071:2678

as my website, then change the 2 :'s separating the numbers at the end of the link to the straight line that's on the same key as the "\" - it works, when I try to post it here as a link it doesn't?? If I type the straight line thingy, it gets changed to a ':' even in the body of this message - weird??? I think I'm just a moron! Hopefully you can use the address above with the changes if you're interested. Sorry for posting a thousand times!

Zip, I can bet that your relationship with the neighbors across the street isn't great now. I don't blame you in the least for wanting to re-paint.

Do you think it might be a good idea to talk to them (if you can!) and tell them that you are going to re-paint your house? That while flattered, you would prefer not to have the same color directly across the street? I DOUBT they'd paint theirs AGAIN, but what if they follow you onto the next color in a few years? Are they that kooky that they might do it?

They may apologize and offer to buy the paint for your re-do! They SHOULD.....

That's a beautiful red, Crash. Which one is it?

Crash .. your home is beautiful! Thanks so much for posting it.

My3dogs .. my Dh is going to talk to the DH of the equation about it.

Natal, we had shutter on our home before painting it yellow. When I posted pictures of them here people thought the house looked better with out them, now that they're off I agree it does.

At this point I'm still not sure what we're going to do. Green just doesn't make my heart sing for this house. I'm not sure if I want to dye the brick to facilitate painting the house red, because once it's done, there's no going back .. it pretty much would lock me into red from here on out. So I'm still up in the air what to do.

That is realllly annoying.

Your house is so beautiful. I hate that you have to repaint it - the color that you chose is perfect. That said, I can see why you'd want to.

I like your thoughts on red. I am drawn to red houses for some reason. Here's a link to one that I want to buy. It's a little darker than the others shown (although not as dark as it seems in the picture).

http://www.realtor.ca/propertyDetails.aspx?propertyId=7912254

There is a growing trend where I live - orange houses. Not sure if that's too 'out there' for you, but I have seen some really stunning orange houses. I wish I'd taken some pictures so you could see. I just ran down the street and took a picture of this one because it's just around the corner. I love this house. Sometimes there are hot-pink pigs in the front window - so colorful! It's not for everyone, but I love it - so cheery.

{{!gwi}}

Here's another house that I am smitten with. It's a darker orange - more the color of a pumpkin.

{{!gwi}}

Here's a link to the MLS listing for the bright orange house - there are a couple more pictures on there.

Here is a link that might be useful: Orange House

Well I'll be a dissenting voter here - I'd not paint my house at least not in the near future. I just had my house painted and it was pretty expensive - is DH painting or will you hire someone?

It just seems that you could take that money and use it to finish or decorate something else in your house. Since it looks so much lighter than yours, I would doubt anyone is driving down the street and is thinking OMG - those two houses are both yellow. What were the homeowners thinking? I know lots of neighborhoods where there's a ton of white houses side by side and no one gives it another thought. I think it's something you're sensitive to, and rightfully so, but don't you have something better to use that money for? :-)

Val .. Wow, I would have never thought I'd like an orange house, but both of those are quite attractive. I don't think I'd like orange on our house, but those houses are awesome, thanks for posting them for me!

Caroleoh .. Oh .. we have tons of places that money could go as far as renovating and decorating :) My Dh and I would paint the house, we've always painted our own houses .. but even the cost of paint is expensive .. enough so that I could buy new furniture for the living room.

Zip, your home is one of my favorites, and as much as I like the reds (or many of the other pretty colors), I just don't think any of them do it justice as well as what you have now. I'd keep it as it is and buy new LR furniture or whatever else makes your heart sing.

Val, I've noticed the same trend around here too, but it wasn't until I first saw this orange beauty. Still remains my favorite!

Here is a link that might be useful: DJ's orange house

We have two orange houses on our court. One is a deep medium orange that is done really well. The other is a pastel peach with bright white and gray/taupe accents that is just hideous. Unfortunately the hideous one is the one right at the end of the court so we see it every day. I think orange is oneo of those colors you have to be really, really careful with in order to make it look good.

Val, I cannot get over the price of that house-- and it's a 6 bedroom? Gorgeous!!! Go get it!

I love the orange homes you posted, too, esp. the lighter one.

Zip, the more I look at yours vs. theirs-- and I'm not just trying to be nice-- the more I think there is just no comparison. The other house may be the same color, but yours has that WOW factor. I understand your neighbors (not that I condone what they did) . . .when I look at rooms I love and try to copy them, there are some elements there that are the same, but since I am not gifted in decorating, there isn't the same "Ohmygosh!" reaction. It's almost like the color isn't even important (can I say that on this board?) because your overall look is pulled together amazingly.

It's late and I haven't been able to read all of the posts, but if you are looking for a great green, try Cambridge Hall by Sherwin Williams. But BEWARE -- we've had at least 4 houses in the immediate area copy our color-- LOL ;0)!

Well, I don't see that there is any reason to repaint. So what if their house is the same color? Yours has far more style and grace and interest. I cannot fathom that anyone would be concerned that two homes, even two similar homes, were a similar color.

I love red, but when I see that mockup of your house in red, I stop noticing the home and fine details, and all I SEE is red. The house feels squattier, too.

Leave your wonderful house the color that it is, and enjoy it. Use the money elsewhere that you would spend on painting - on something that stems from joy, not anger. Down the road, it will make you much happier, I think.

Zipdee, I hope you have decided not to paint. Have you?

But the next time you do paint, I vote for the red. I just read that red makes people hungry, so I'd paint it red and watch the people across the street get fat from looking across at your house. Serves 'em right! ;oP

anele - it has structural damage, but once I get a job (got laid off in the spring) I plan to get an estimate to repair the foundation and see if it's doable. It's got 4 bedrooms in the main house, and the attached apartment has 2 bedrooms. It's a gorgeous house. I have fallen in love with it. It just might be too much of a money pit, but we'll see.

I think you have a lovely house and I wouldn't repaint. It looks perfect the way it is now. I suggest you just "let it go" as far as being upset at the color the neighbor is painting. Like you said, there are 14 yellow houses in your neighborhood.

It's a popular color, but your neighbor's house really doesn't look like yours. I bet most people in the neighborhood won't even notice it is the same yellow.

Thanks so much everyone for your thoughts, opinions and help! You all are great and I really appreciate the time you've put into helping me out! I'm still not positive what I'm going to do, but at this time I'm leaning towards leaving the house yellow and trying to make it more unique through the use of out door accessories, furniture and the gardens, which I try to add something major too each year.

Val, I am excited for you! I am keeping my fingers crossed that it works out!

Zip, glad to hear you are reconsidering leaving it. I think it looks amazing as-is.