{Benjamin Moore Golden Mist for Our Home} 2013

by **Admin** Sat Jul 27, 2013 9:42 am

2013 2013 2013 <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">One of the hardest things to do was picking a color for our home's exterior paint. But we did select it two days before going to Curaçao. Sitting on the balcony, in bright daylight I did go over all of Benjamin Moore's color charts. What a task! Since husband Pieter is color blind, it mainly did rest upon my shoulders to select. We went for Benjamin Moore's Golden Mist! Pieter was quick to purchase one quart in this color just to try it out and see how it would look in reality... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0c72Cn5F_RQ/Ud-APRNhZiI/AAAAAAAATDo/9wDJvaGM6hc/s1600/Benjamin+Moore+Golden+Mist+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0c72Cn5F_RQ/Ud-APRNhZiI/AAAAAAAATDo/9wDJvaGM6hc/s640/Benjamin+Moore+Golden+Mist+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yeah this is AFTER we decided on this Benjamin Moore Golden Mist. That got professionally done on May 22 as the first coat of paint, by our two painters.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So what do you think? To the left you can see the house as it was... kind of a Bone color but very much faded...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FhHJtZWxdy0/Ud-Gp1ZsN_I/AAAAAAAATEk/KGRp7LXX8JA/s1600/3b+Golden+Mist+2158-40.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="252" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FhHJtZWxdy0/Ud-Gp1ZsN_I/AAAAAAAATEk/KGRp7LXX8JA/s400/3b+Golden+Mist+2158-40.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Benjamin Moore Golden Mist</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CifLdn_nnX8/Ud-BC-dvLoI/AAAAAAAATDw/TQJsErQ-Epc/s1600/Benjamin+Moore+Golden+Mist+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CifLdn_nnX8/Ud-BC-dvLoI/AAAAAAAATDw/TQJsErQ-Epc/s640/Benjamin+Moore+Golden+Mist+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is what Pieter did put on early morning on April 18, below our veranda window...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Only one coat!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The house still needed to get pressure washed and prepped for the big paint job.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4pdzO_ZQqEk/Ud-ByWCHzDI/AAAAAAAATD4/PQmmOXD03rc/s1600/Benjamin+Moore+Golden+Mist+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4pdzO_ZQqEk/Ud-ByWCHzDI/AAAAAAAATD4/PQmmOXD03rc/s640/Benjamin+Moore+Golden+Mist+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photo taken at a bit more distance but with different light...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It is awfully hard to capture those results, as true to real color as possible!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is under the shade of our holly tree.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5rWNWpR_fXk/Ud-CF6z2XoI/AAAAAAAATEA/lh2xgqg6j8w/s1600/Benjamin+Moore+Golden+Mist+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5rWNWpR_fXk/Ud-CF6z2XoI/AAAAAAAATEA/lh2xgqg6j8w/s640/Benjamin+Moore+Golden+Mist+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So a second spot got done, in the sunshine now, below the bay window of our kitchen to the side.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Looks better already.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We went for it since the windows and all the ginger bread trimmings would stand out far better in white, when using this 'Golden Mist'...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">What do you say?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-s_cOgj5FQpA/Ud-CzxIVrQI/AAAAAAAATEU/ug19gZZMT3o/s1600/Benjamin+Moore+Golden+Mist+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-s_cOgj5FQpA/Ud-CzxIVrQI/AAAAAAAATEU/ug19gZZMT3o/s640/Benjamin+Moore+Golden+Mist+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+6.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Let's try one more sampling though. Tiggy-Tiger our min-cat loves to take naps inside this cat-house in the front porch. Pieter used some scraps from the Interlock® Aluminum Slate Roof material in Aged Copper. So we could see how that would blend in with the Benjamin Moore Golden Mist. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We liked it; that was a good marriage... Don't you think so too?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tQFoIC7GpoI/Ud-IAzQv8AI/AAAAAAAATE8/fud1upcoifQ/s1600/Cura%C3%A7ao+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tQFoIC7GpoI/Ud-IAzQv8AI/AAAAAAAATE8/fud1upcoifQ/s640/Cura%C3%A7ao+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now we could happily leave two days later for our vacation to Curaçao where we stayed together with daughter Liz and her husband from April 20-30 and back on May 1st in the wee hours of the morning. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Funny how much our home now does resemble the warm and sunny colors of the Caribbean.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Like this 1708 Penha building in Willemstad, Curaçao...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Even Pieter is wearing his sunny yellow t-shirt; My Home is My Garden with a photo from himself in the front and in the back - gift from our German 'son' and his family after they did visit us in 2008, following their Florida vacation.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Al2X-_8Dslc/Ud-JB97HGQI/AAAAAAAATFM/pTqo-p7iT2s/s1600/Chrome+Green.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="171" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Al2X-_8Dslc/Ud-JB97HGQI/AAAAAAAATFM/pTqo-p7iT2s/s400/Chrome+Green.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Benjamin Chrome Green we selected for the shutters and front door...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-q0rPvGDSoHs/Ud-Cr0Lo6qI/AAAAAAAATEM/8HNC47__slE/s1600/Benjamin+Moore+Golden+Mist+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-q0rPvGDSoHs/Ud-Cr0Lo6qI/AAAAAAAATEM/8HNC47__slE/s640/Benjamin+Moore+Golden+Mist+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now back to the chaos on May 22nd. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Pieter had stripped the wooden balusters off the balcony since two sides had a lot of rotted wood.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">He also used a craw bar to remove the tiles. That had to be completely redone.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">To the left you already can see the new Interlock® Aluminum Slate Roof in Aged Copper being added on. So far for Going Green.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Do you like it?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The house is neatly pressure washed and the gutters cleaned out; all the sand from the old shingles that had clogged them up, got removed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Quite a difference already. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oh, Pieter also gave this huge Live Oak a major 'hair cut'. Lots of big branches cut off and the view is so much better now. Also the big tree in front of the house got a major hair cut. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now you also understand WHY we removed last year our Confederate Jasmine that grew around the French sliding doors on our balcony... All in preparation for this major renovation.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Related links:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.com/2012/09/bye-bye-confederate-jasmine.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e06666;">{Bye-Bye Confederate Jasmine...}</span></a> | previous post by me </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.com/2013/07/energy-efficient-green-roofing-arrived.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e06666;">{Energy Efficient GREEN Roofing Arrived}</span></a> | previous post by me</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.com/2013/07/our-home-on-march-24-of-2013.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e06666;">{Our Home on March 24 of 2013}</span></a> | previous post by me showing the BEFORE look</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><center><a href="https://plus.google.com/100490423051043047646/about" rel="author" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e06666;">Mariette on Google+</span></a></center></div><br> 2013 2013 2013 <br><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;">One of the hardest things to do was picking a color for our home's exterior paint. But we did select it two days before going to Curaçao. Sitting on the balcony, in bright daylight I did go over all of Benjamin Moore's color charts. What a task! Since husband Pieter is color blind, it mainly did rest upon my shoulders to select. We went for Benjamin Moore's Golden Mist! Pieter was quick to purchase one quart in this color just to try it out and see how it would look in reality... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0c72Cn5F_RQ/Ud-APRNhZiI/AAAAAAAATDo/9wDJvaGM6hc/s1600/Benjamin+Moore+Golden+Mist+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0c72Cn5F_RQ/Ud-APRNhZiI/AAAAAAAATDo/9wDJvaGM6hc/s640/Benjamin+Moore+Golden+Mist+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yeah this is AFTER we decided on this Benjamin Moore Golden Mist. That got professionally done on May 22 as the first coat of paint, by our two painters.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So what do you think? To the left you can see the house as it was... kind of a Bone color but very much faded...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FhHJtZWxdy0/Ud-Gp1ZsN_I/AAAAAAAATEk/KGRp7LXX8JA/s1600/3b+Golden+Mist+2158-40.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="252" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FhHJtZWxdy0/Ud-Gp1ZsN_I/AAAAAAAATEk/KGRp7LXX8JA/s400/3b+Golden+Mist+2158-40.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Benjamin Moore Golden Mist</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CifLdn_nnX8/Ud-BC-dvLoI/AAAAAAAATDw/TQJsErQ-Epc/s1600/Benjamin+Moore+Golden+Mist+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CifLdn_nnX8/Ud-BC-dvLoI/AAAAAAAATDw/TQJsErQ-Epc/s640/Benjamin+Moore+Golden+Mist+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is what Pieter did put on early morning on April 18, below our veranda window...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Only one coat!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The house still needed to get pressure washed and prepped for the big paint job.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4pdzO_ZQqEk/Ud-ByWCHzDI/AAAAAAAATD4/PQmmOXD03rc/s1600/Benjamin+Moore+Golden+Mist+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4pdzO_ZQqEk/Ud-ByWCHzDI/AAAAAAAATD4/PQmmOXD03rc/s640/Benjamin+Moore+Golden+Mist+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photo taken at a bit more distance but with different light...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It is awfully hard to capture those results, as true to real color as possible!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is under the shade of our holly tree.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5rWNWpR_fXk/Ud-CF6z2XoI/AAAAAAAATEA/lh2xgqg6j8w/s1600/Benjamin+Moore+Golden+Mist+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5rWNWpR_fXk/Ud-CF6z2XoI/AAAAAAAATEA/lh2xgqg6j8w/s640/Benjamin+Moore+Golden+Mist+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So a second spot got done, in the sunshine now, below the bay window of our kitchen to the side.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Looks better already.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We went for it since the windows and all the ginger bread trimmings would stand out far better in white, when using this 'Golden Mist'...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">What do you say?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-s_cOgj5FQpA/Ud-CzxIVrQI/AAAAAAAATEU/ug19gZZMT3o/s1600/Benjamin+Moore+Golden+Mist+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-s_cOgj5FQpA/Ud-CzxIVrQI/AAAAAAAATEU/ug19gZZMT3o/s640/Benjamin+Moore+Golden+Mist+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+6.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Let's try one more sampling though. Tiggy-Tiger our min-cat loves to take naps inside this cat-house in the front porch. Pieter used some scraps from the Interlock® Aluminum Slate Roof material in Aged Copper. So we could see how that would blend in with the Benjamin Moore Golden Mist. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We liked it; that was a good marriage... Don't you think so too?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tQFoIC7GpoI/Ud-IAzQv8AI/AAAAAAAATE8/fud1upcoifQ/s1600/Cura%C3%A7ao+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tQFoIC7GpoI/Ud-IAzQv8AI/AAAAAAAATE8/fud1upcoifQ/s640/Cura%C3%A7ao+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now we could happily leave two days later for our vacation to Curaçao where we stayed together with daughter Liz and her husband from April 20-30 and back on May 1st in the wee hours of the morning. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Funny how much our home now does resemble the warm and sunny colors of the Caribbean.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Like this 1708 Penha building in Willemstad, Curaçao...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Even Pieter is wearing his sunny yellow t-shirt; My Home is My Garden with a photo from himself in the front and in the back - gift from our German 'son' and his family after they did visit us in 2008, following their Florida vacation.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Al2X-_8Dslc/Ud-JB97HGQI/AAAAAAAATFM/pTqo-p7iT2s/s1600/Chrome+Green.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="171" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Al2X-_8Dslc/Ud-JB97HGQI/AAAAAAAATFM/pTqo-p7iT2s/s400/Chrome+Green.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Benjamin Chrome Green we selected for the shutters and front door...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-q0rPvGDSoHs/Ud-Cr0Lo6qI/AAAAAAAATEM/8HNC47__slE/s1600/Benjamin+Moore+Golden+Mist+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-q0rPvGDSoHs/Ud-Cr0Lo6qI/AAAAAAAATEM/8HNC47__slE/s640/Benjamin+Moore+Golden+Mist+Mariette's+Back+to+Basics+5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now back to the chaos on May 22nd. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Pieter had stripped the wooden balusters off the balcony since two sides had a lot of rotted wood.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">He also used a craw bar to remove the tiles. That had to be completely redone.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">To the left you already can see the new Interlock® Aluminum Slate Roof in Aged Copper being added on. So far for Going Green.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Do you like it?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The house is neatly pressure washed and the gutters cleaned out; all the sand from the old shingles that had clogged them up, got removed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Quite a difference already. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oh, Pieter also gave this huge Live Oak a major 'hair cut'. Lots of big branches cut off and the view is so much better now. Also the big tree in front of the house got a major hair cut. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now you also understand WHY we removed last year our Confederate Jasmine that grew around the French sliding doors on our balcony... All in preparation for this major renovation.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Related links:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.com/2012/09/bye-bye-confederate-jasmine.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e06666;">{Bye-Bye Confederate Jasmine...}</span></a> | previous post by me </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.com/2013/07/energy-efficient-green-roofing-arrived.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e06666;">{Energy Efficient GREEN Roofing Arrived}</span></a> | previous post by me</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.com/2013/07/our-home-on-march-24-of-2013.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e06666;">{Our Home on March 24 of 2013}</span></a> | previous post by me showing the BEFORE look</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><center><a href="https://plus.google.com/100490423051043047646/about" rel="author" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e06666;">Mariette on Google+</span></a></center></div><br>2013 2013 2013 <br> <a href="http://www.matrixar.com/" title="Matrix ">المصفوفة : أجمل الخلفيات والصور</a>