I think it had always been painted red with white trim.
The yard looks nicely mowed even back then, when nobody was living here. We still have the same mowing crew. We had to take down the two chimneys. They were unsafe, but they were so beautiful, and I hated losing them. We used the old brick to make a walk along the side of the house.
You can see why we fell in love with it.
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Thank you for sharing these great pictures with us - as I was saying the other day, this house was my dream house when I saw it on the realtor's website!
Charming - it is wonderful that you are taking such good care of the place now.
I can indeed see why you fell in love with it!
Oh, I've fallen in love with it too. Thanks for sharing the photos!...
And darn it, your blog still doesn't update on my blogroll for some reason, I forget to check for new posts sometimes. Glad I saw this one.
I've fallen in love with your house! We are thinking of retiring to Nova Scotia from the UK, as I was born there. Your house is the sort of dream I have been having!
The rust-red-brown coloured paint could be made locally, by mixing red ochre and seal oil (or similar oil). Red ochre isn't too hard to find in many parts of Nova Scotia. A spring near Chester used to be called "Paint Spring", presumably for red ochre occurring there.
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