Siding Color Reveal

We finally made a siding choice. 

 Although we liked farmhouse-y white, we didn't want white because it would "stick out" too much and we were already prominent on top of the hill.  Red would make us look like a barn. I liked a creamy yellow but my husband didn't. The HOA rules were to choose a house color that would blend in with the surroundings; a lot of the neighborhood has opted for browns, greens, blues or beige. We didn't care for green or brown. Blues are too hard to get right and tend to fade fast around here. My husband works with a lot of beige all day in his profession, and we both agreed: NO BEIGE.

Our last option seemed to be gray, but we could not agree about the shade: one preferred light dove gray and one preferred dark grey. 

One day my husband called on his work break: we had to make the siding color decision because the order had to go in that day! We had to decide about gray! But in half an hour we had changed our minds.

We went with a color called "sailcloth."

Which is basically beige. 

The truck delivered the siding on a gray rainy day. 

We aced the "blending into the surroundings" bit!

I was sure that we had been subliminally influenced by the dirt. 

As with all major decisions, we were worried we had made the wrong one. When we saw it in person we were all rather disappointed. One of our kids said it reminded him of an "Airplane hangar metal building."  I renamed it "vanilla pudding" to make myself feel better. 

The funny thing is-- that once it was off the ground (reflecting the blue sky) and on the house (in shadow), it changed to a pretty creamy light yellow...just the color I wanted!