Lap siding all around

We decided against shingles, so it'll be all lap siding. One of the reasons was to preserve the siding, window trim, and decorative knee braces around the remaining upstairs east-facing wall (below) -- but it turns out that the siding profile doesn't match any of the other siding anyway. So it goes.


Met with our contractor's interior door guy on Friday, to put together a preliminary list of doors.

New idea to replace the dining-room French doors: a painted ordinary door (the "servant's entrance"), but with an operable casement sidelight. The dining room gets no ventilation otherwise. Door guy is looking into it.

Thinking about exterior colors! I like the "templeton gray," a bluey gray (top strip, center color). Dave likes "hancock gray" (top color on the vertical strip). Ramon, the most competent jobsite foreman who's also full of good ideas, also picked Dave's color on his own.