We painted our house!

We did a thing. A thing we’ve been talking about doing for 10 years. We finally did it. Like actually. Check out our house 12 years ago when we first moved in…

Painting the exterior brick has been on the to do-list for a while now. We even bought the paint 2 years ago thinking that 2021 was the year, but life happened. We decided we needed to do some more important and pressing maintenance issues like getting a new roof, soffit, fascia, eaves, rain gutters, and a new garage door…

There’s still A LOT we need to do to get it to the place we want it.

Fill in with landscaping rock. (We also just built a deck, or what I call a platform, in place of where 30 scrub oak used to be). Paint the bay window the same color as the brick. Add some kind of wood slat siding to the porch area to warm up the charcoal color. Finish the landscaping. We will be putting on a new/old front door which I found on Marketplace. I need to re-finish it and am trying to decide whether to paint or allow the natural wood to shine through.

I’m also trying to decide if I want to paint the window frames black or leave them white as-is.

The paint we used is called Ramabio which is a specialty paint for masonry in a shade by Benjamin Moore called Iron Mountain.

I researched the heck out of different exterior paint options and landed on Ramabio for it’s finish, durability and longevity. We opted to have someone paint the house instead of do it ourselves because I’m dealing with a shoulder injury (thanks Pickleball). Ricky and Samuel from Ricky Paint LLC were probably the best contractors I’ve ever worked with. Customer service, attention to detail, quality work…I give them an A+. They started by power washing the house then let it dry for 48 hours. Next, they sprayed it right on the brick with a sprayer (no primer needed). I love how it turned out!