House #7 Update – First Look at Our Pink House

It was such a tough decision, but after much debating and waffling and flip-flopping, B and I finally settled on a paint color for the exterior of our seventh house.  And all my pink house dreams are coming true!  🙂

state street pink house

I’m in love!  As you may remember we’d narrowed our options down to two different shades of pink – State Street Pink and Pink Mimosa.  And I finally decided to go with State Street Pink.

*(Side note – They’re putting the roof on now………..I have no idea what these roofers make, but whatever it is it’s not enough!  Yikes!)

state street pink house

As much as I really liked Pink Mimosa, I just couldn’t get over how bright it was.  And I think that color on an entire house would have been too overpowering…..too island-y……not quite the overall vibe I was going for.

State Street Pink is much more subdued, but it’s still very pink as you can see.  And now that it’s not swatched right up against the warmer, brighter Pink Mimosa, you can see that it really isn’t too purple at all, as I worried it might be.  Colors really do read so differently when they’re compared right next to each other.

State Street Pink on its own is a really lovely shade of pink that is not too warm or too cool.  And I am really happy with this choice!

pink house

I especially love it paired with the blue ceiling on the screen porch (SW Hurricane Blue).

pink house

I can’t thank you all enough for weighing in with your thoughts on this paint selection!  You all had such great insight and suggestions, which really helped me (us) to make a decision.  We’re both thrilled with the way things are shaping up here!

And now that the exterior is about finished, they’ll be moving on to the inside.  That’s where the real fun will be!  😉

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  • Couldn’t love it more!!! I mean, that blue porch ceiling is amazing and the house is so pretty in pink!!!

  • Ugh, my dream house!! My husband won’t even let me paint my front door pink 🙁 I love your house!

  • My husband finally let me paint our front door pink, and it’s a real fuschia pink–but he always uses the side door to come in so he has no complaints 😉

  • What a beautiful house and the pink couldn’t be more perfect. Oh, and that blue porch roof……I’d want to stare at it all day. Heading to IOP next week (from Boston) and can’t wait to get my Charleston fix!

  • So beautiful. Ice tea on the porch. Coffee in the mornings. A good book on a spring day. The possibilities are endless and the color is dreamy!

  • Haha! Thanks Linda! Pink is hard for some men to take. I tried to balance out the sweetness of the pink with the black doors. 😉

  • Simply AMAZING!!! Wow…..your house is beautiful. I live in Minnesota and there aren’t any pink houses here….but we do have an April snowstorm so there is that (she says super duper sarcastically). Can’t wait to see the inside. Love, Love, Love it.

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