42 |ARTS & CRAFTS HOMES Winter 2017
bricks a murky green, and they’d installed Plexiglas panels over
the windows in the airless kitchen. The walls and original fir
woodwork throughout the house had been “freshened for mar-
ket” with a thick coat of glossy white paint.
Brenda and Rick got to work. They wisely began with
the roof, ripping off multiple layers and reroofing with quality
composition shingles in cedar red. Scrapings revealed the orig-inal color scheme had been green and cream. Based on that,
the couple selected colors: Glidden ‘Hosta Green’ on the first
storey, the lighter ‘Zen Green’ on the second, with trim done
in soft ‘Dunmore Cream’. River-rock piers were added to porch
posts for more presence at the entry.
Every weekend for months, the couple patiently stripped
the painted woodwork in the living and dining rooms. The