Window Shopping!
Jim has been diligently working long hours every day on the carriage house design and construction drawings. He's even starting to make price lists so he will be getting quotes on certain items soon. So things are getting a little closer to real work!
We had stopped at Home Depot last week to look at windows. We had Anderson windows in our home in Ohio and really liked them...except they were white on the outside. We didn't like the look with the saltbox house, so we painted each window. It was a lot of work and time - not something we want to do again. Anderson only has a few colors to pick from - besides white, mostly browns. There was one color, Terratone, that was more of a grayish-brown - or at least that's what it looks like in the store. We even tried matching gray-toned paints to it to see if we could find something we liked. We found one paint - Intellectual (great name) - that we thought would work.
But today we were heading into Saratoga to go to the gym, so we left early and stopped at Lowe's because they carry Pella Windows. We found a knowledgeable salesperson who walked us through the different Pella options. If you go with the higher cost window, they offer a lot more color options. We would like to stick in the gray family because we were so happy with it in Ohio, and Pella has a few gray choices. Jim is going to work on a breakdown of what we need for the carriage house and the guy at Lowe's will get us a quote.
We've also been having the discussion about roof materials. Obviously from the previous post's winter pictures, this area can get a lot of snow. In fact, the "Adirondack style" of roof is metal - the snow just slides right off. Where we rarely saw them in Ohio except for on old barns, here they are commonplace on all types of houses - from the very expensive on down. Of course, they come in lots of different qualities and Jim found a supplier on line with really nice quality roofs. So it's something we are at least thinking about. That brings up another color question too! So we need to get lots of samples of different products to find the right combination.
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