indecision

Even more paint colors later, I still cannot decide on colors or color combinations. I keep dithering back and forth between a light blue/ivory/rosy mauve (or purple)/dark blue combo (but that's four colors and the price I got is for three) or the same without the white but the white really makes it. 

   

Or I could do the two blues and the white, which is nice but kind of tame and essentially only two colors but it would work too. 

I also like other combos like ivory/blue (or a dark rose color)/green but I don't want a white house 

   

or a light lavender/ivory/green/dark blue which, again is four colors and I'm afraid the light lavender will turn to gray as it ages 

or green/ivory/lilac/dark rose also four colors. 

All the best combos have four colors. And then there's all the options of which colors for the trim, shutters, fascia, and soffit.

This is what the west side of the house looks like:

This is the outside wall of the garage that Rocky had bleached and pressure washed for me before he went off to do another job and it's latest incarnation. Several areas have three or four coats of paint on it. 

I'll sit close, walk back to the back of the big backyard and look. That nice little moss green on paper turned out to look like split pea soup on the trim so that's out. I'm thinking that dark blue is way too dark after earlier thinking I really liked it and I have another option that's not so dark and I don't like it for the (faked) shutters on either wall color. Maybe the light blue on the wall should be toned down some. Basically after looking at this for three days I've rejected all of it. Maybe I'm not brave enough to have a brightly colored house. Maybe I do want a nice tame paint job.

Tomorrow, I'll get some new paint samples and give it another try.