The shingling is now done on both the bay windows and their roofs, and on the verandah. It looks so nice in its natural colour.
Here's the kitchen bay and the side verandah
And here is the front bay and the front verandah
The colour also goes really well with the colouring on the verandah tiles. I had been thinking about staining or painting the shingles brown (which will also go well with the foundation and the verandah). Now I am wondering. Will I colour the shingles? And If so, what colour will I do them?
I've adjusted the posts on each end of the verandah trim to accommodate the extra space taken up by the cladding on the house. Otherwise the posts and railings wouldn't fit on the verandah at all. Here they are just sitting in place - I don't want to glue them in yet until I have the light in place permanently and the trim and everything finished in that area, so I can access it easily.
Usually I don't shingle until the very last thing, because the shingles are too easily damaged as you move the house around to wallpaper so I hope I don't regret doing the windows now! I really wanted to get an idea of what they would look like and it has certainly inspired me to get a move on with the rest of the house now. I tend to get a bit stale when I've been doing one project for a while, and usually move on to something else. This time I'm not going to start a new project so needed something to renew the energy.
So what do you think? Colour nor not colour? And if I colour, then what colour? Not the off-white, I plan to do that look on another house. Some shade of brown? Or leave natural?
