Blue!

We have not touched our this blog for over a year so I thought it might be time to do so.  In the past many people created a blog about the experience of building a modern home in Agave and even updated the blogs for awhile after they had their houses built, but most have not been updated in two years. Also the developer left, so no homes have been built in some time.  The great news is we may have a new developer soon interested in the maintaining the modern look of the neighborhood which may mean more blogs!   I think its a great way to show others what the experience has been like and what people are doing with their homes whether being newly built or for someone that buys a previously owned home. 

I also updated all the links on the side of the blog.  I think people are curious about who built the modern colorful homes in east Austin so I tried to list the architect and if possible a link to a house that was built out here under Architecture in Agave. 

Since the last post here was from 2012, we have made quite a few changes to our Emily Little 1725 sq ft home.  We have been here for 5 years and as everyone knows that can mean a fresh coat of paint, fixing a few cracks (due to house settling) etc...   The first project was some interior painting - light grey ceilings, green wall in bedroom and some great accent colors on small sections of a wall in one bedroom and one bathroom where we have cinder block. I will post pics of those later. 

Second, we desperately needed to paint the exterior (with several coats of paint).  Luckily we chose CertaPro and they did an awesome job (Roger and Chris Hazard recommend them)! Now I have to say that actually picking out the paint colors for the 4 different areas to be painted (base, stucco at top of house, color for the eaves, and then the metal work) was a MAJOR pain. There was at least 10 trips to Sherwin Williams to get the paint samples and about 30 different shades. After several months we finally got it right.  We noticed there was not a lot of blue in the neighborhood, mostly greens.  Then we noticed several other people had their houses painted right around the same time … and we saw more blue!  I happen to have a light blue Mini Cooper and I guess it looked like I tried to match my car.. which is NOT the case :).   The car pictured below is obviously not a Mini Cooper but the Mini Cooper's color is about the color of the light blue in the pictures: 

This is not all that we have done, but I leave that for the next blogger to talk about - they all relate to electricity!