House, I decided your color is a color that we mixed at Home Depot the night before, with the help of our favorite employee at the paint department. You can see the results of our experimenting. Nine colors (one is a combination of two other colors, neither of which were of course remotely right), three different brands, two different stores. On the right, Behr’s Rhino, which even on a cloudy day washed to a color too light. (Under sun, the color seemed to vanish almost altogether.) On the left, the house’s current color, which in my opinion leads a little toward a color I like to call “urban yuck.”

While looking through pieces of broken siding, we found three examples of the original color, an antique-looking green. The samples were too small to color-match digitally, and even a specialty paint store matched the color to brown. We spent about 90 minutes at Home Depot, and while it’s still not quite right, it’s close, and more pleasant than “urban yuck.” If you look closely, you can see we had tried so many colors of paint that I needed to label them with a permanent marker to keep track. I’m sure our neighbors were highly amused (or not).

Posted 15 May, but pictures are from 2 May. Time-stamp altered to maintain chronological order.