{Our Home with Aluminum Interlock Roofing and Benjamin Moore Golden Mist Exterior}

Now, here comes the final REVEAL! Our completed home with the Aluminum Interlock Metal Roofing and the Benjamin Moore Golden Mist Exterior... We have waited long enough, for having better weather to take photos, but that never happened. Only now our balcony has been completed as well. As I write this, not yet painted by the very same professional painters that did our entire exterior of the home and the gazebo. When that is done, you will get more photos from the back of our home with the balcony as well.

Photo has been taken on June 24, you see how gray the sky looks; pregnant with rain...

LOTS of rain we have had.

We got so lucky for having the roof installed in 4 days with perfect weather and also for the painters we had 3 weeks of perfect weather.

Needless to say that our lawn is GREEN... but soggy!

The Benjamin Moore Golden Mist color works perfect with the Aluminum Slate Roofing in Aged Copper color. We did our very best to lower our Carbon Footprint and it pays off!

The shutters are in a Chrome Green and the windows and all the Vintage Woodworks gingerbread wood trim, balusters and posts are in white.

What do you say?

The indoor shutters are not fully open... 

The white hibiscus are blooming in front of our home.

Now let's walk around the corner towards the bay window area.

This photo I made on August 6, the same gray sky and very pregnant with rain.

Our Speckie girl followed me, as they all usually do – like a doggy.

This is back to June 24, with the white petunias just having been planted inside our Fiberglass Window Boxes.

There was so much to do after the painters did pressure wash the house.

Next they caulk it and painted it with two layers of Benjamin Moore paint in Golden Mist.

We had to take all the Window Boxes off the walls, as it had to be bare.

Than putting them back on, filling them with potting soil and finding plants in summer time...

A little bit closer for the picture.

Our prostrate gardenias are blooming too.

Now you can see the gazebo coming in view as well.

All our trees are so lush this summer with that much rain.

More view of he gazebo.

Below the large dogwood tree, no grass is growing in the shade...

Now it is pure mud!

One last view of the Benjamin Moore Golden Mist with Chrome Green for the shutters.

You can see here that the balusters are still not on the balcony. 

I will show that later with the complete back side and in another post also you get to see our gazebo.

All those planter boxes had to come off the walls, and back on...

Our youngest cat-man 'Smokey' walks here on the driveway.

I found him up in the magnolia tree next to the driveway to the left (not visible here).

Somebody must have put him out there. A poor kitten; literally skin over bone.

He was trying to steal some morsels from our cats but there was not much left...

Smokey is part Persian and we got him back to good health. He was so sick at first.

Cowards that put him out like that and they had even tried to kill him as he was so tender on his back and also his tail. He barely could 'talk' and his throat was very sensitive to touching.

God knows what this poor soul went through before I did hear him, thinking there was a hawk rustling those magnolia leaves...

That was so far the update on our home and on Smokey!

Related links:

{Our Interlock Aluminum Aged Copper Slate Roofing} | previous post by me

{Our Interlock Aluminum Slate Roofing Being Installed} | previous post by me
Never Re-Roof Again | link with full info, scroll down for reading more
Interlock Roofing | Manufacturer of Lifetime Roofing Systems. Never re-roof again
{Energy Efficient GREEN Roofing Arrived} | previous post by me
{Our Home on March 24 of 2013} | previous post by me showing the BEFORE
{Fighting the Water + Scanning Slides} | previous post by me showing the result of gutters running over...
Flower Framers of Cincinnati | Source for Fiberglass Window Boxes

{Our Interlock Aluminum Aged Copper Slate Roofing}

As promised in my previous post about Our Interlock Aluminum Slate Roofing Being Installed, here is Part II. This post will show you also very clear the Aluminum Aged Copper Slate so you finally will understand what it really looks like. 

This is at the end of day two, the front of our home is finished.

We had a crew of three men working very hard. Each late afternoon they gathered meticulously all scrap material and cleaned up. To the left you see one crew member at work.

By the time they left, the place looked tidy and neat.

Now you know... This is Aluminum Slate in Aged Copper. The color looks like terra cotta in a way, depending on the shine of course. It makes a difference if it is a sunny day or not.

If you want to read more about this Energy Efficient GREEN Roofing; you find the Energy Star Roof Product list in a link below this post with full information, also on Reflectance.

The gutter guards are new ones, from Home Depot. The old ones got removed.

Above our veranda and now the bay window area and above the dining room as last part.

Notice the sample spots where husband Pieter did try out our Benjamin Moore paint in Golden Mist?

Here they are, above the dining room and front porch, the final part...

You can see how dirty those gutters and the house are.

Pressure wash was the next thing we had done before having it painted in two coats.

Cloudy, but no rain...

We got so lucky for all those four days that they worked on our roof.

Yep, making progress in lowering our Carbon Footprint for the rest of our life!

Nearing the end...

do you like these Aged Copper Aluminum Slates?

One more detail. They really do look like natural Slates and the Aged Copper is a good color too.

Now the problem we had in February, was that those gutters got all clogged up with the sand that washed down by the rain from the asphalt shingles. The rain water ran over those gutters and than it entered the foundation...

It's done! Hard to capture with such overcast but you get the picture I guess.

Stepping back further...

Very hard to capture this Aluminum roof in Aged copper slate, with its reflection...

How many holly leaves that are on the ground...

Well, I must admit that before the roofers started out, husband Pieter had given all trees around the house a hair cut. Big branches got cut off, especially from the live oak tree.

Also the tree in front of our home lost quite some lower branches.

Lots of HARD WORK!

Tidying up the place...

These two photos are actually from the end of day two but I want to end with this view...

This is May 11, the day after they had come in the morning for gathering all their tools and leave the finished job.

The sky looks so pregnant with rain...

Tiny Tiggy-Tiger girl is dreaming...

By cutting off the lower branches of this tree, the house now is visible once again!

Here you can see that husband Pieter has taken down the wooden balustrade from the balcony...

The painters would start the next week with pressure washing.

Than the caulking and painting of two coats in Benjamin Moore Golden Mist and the shutters also in a darker Chrome Green.

You will get to see the end results soon!

And YES, our gazebo got also a new Interlock Metal Roofing in Aged Copper Slates!

Funny to see that sample spot in Benjamin Moore Golden Mist...

That's how it will be entirely.

New fan for the gazebo as well.

Hope you enjoyed this post and that you learned something about Saving Energy by putting on a Lifetime Aluminum Roof.

This material is available to all of Canada and the USA.

We both are very pleased with it and especially with the lower utility bills we got since!

Related links:
{Our Interlock Aluminum Slate Roofing Being Installed} | previous post by me
Never Re-Roof Again | link with full info, scroll down for reading more
Interlock Roofing | Manufacturer of Lifetime Roofing Systems. Never re-roof again
{Energy Efficient GREEN Roofing Arrived} | previous post by me
{Our Home on March 24 of 2013} | previous post by me showing the BEFORE
{Fighting the Water + Scanning Slides} | previous post by me showing the result of gutters running over...

{Benjamin Moore Golden Mist for Our Home}

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... 

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.

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...

Benjamin Moore Golden Mist

This is what Pieter did put on early morning on April 18, below our veranda window...

Only one coat!

The house still needed to get pressure washed and prepped for the big paint job.

Photo taken at a bit more distance but with different light...

It is awfully hard to capture those results, as true to real color as possible!

This is under the shade of our holly tree.

So a second spot got done, in the sunshine now, below the bay window of our kitchen to the side.

Looks better already.

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'...

What do you say?

Let's try one more sampling though. Tiggy-Tiger our mini-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. 

We liked it; that was a good marriage... Don't you think so too?

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. 

Funny how much our home now does resemble the warm and sunny colors of the Caribbean.

Like this 1708 Penha building in Willemstad, Curaçao...

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.

Benjamin Chrome Green we selected for the shutters and front door...

Now back to the chaos on May 22nd. 

Pieter had stripped the wooden balusters off the balcony since two sides had a lot of rotted wood.

He also used a craw bar to remove the tiles. That had to be completely redone.

To the left you already can see the new Interlock® Aluminum Slate Roof in Aged Copper being added on. So far for Going Green.

Do you like it?

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.

Quite a difference already. 

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. 

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.

Related links:

{Bye-Bye Confederate Jasmine...} | previous post by me 

{Energy Efficient GREEN Roofing Arrived} | previous post by me

{Our Home on March 24 of 2013} | previous post by me showing the BEFORE look

{Our Dining Room}

After having shown you our kitchen it is now time to show you our dining room. It is adjacent to the kitchen and also to the hall way with a window that looks out onto the street. All of our solid French oak furniture, lights from Italy and other belongings, we did bring over from The Netherlands. So all you see in our dining room is from the old world, except for one tall book case that was custom build in Vermont by Woodruff Custom Furniture. The walls are painted with Benjamin Moore Latex Eggshell Enamel C286 Bone White 03. Let's start the tour...

The door to the hallway and here is the solid oak Woodruff book case, custom build, from Vermont. Window with window sills. That's a unique European feature that we've build into our entire home. In the kitchen and veranda we do have wide Corian windowsills, custom made. Lots of books we have in every room of the house...

French Limoges plates and Dachshund and cat miniatures.

The windows do have solid oak indoor shutters.

Through the windows you can see the Victorian Vintage Woodworks ginger bread in our front porch.

Our floor is Bruce Liberty Plains 5" natural white oak planks.

More books on the shelves...

The photograph from the famous oak, called 't Struukske, from my hometown in Limburg, is done by my brother Martin. That photo was also part of a calendar that was published for which my other brother Piet wrote the text.

Mom & Dad had their first meeting at the bench below the huge oak tree, as they both were in servitude nearby.

The antique oak crucifix belonged to Pieter's Mom & Dad.

The door to the kitchen.

Lamp from Italy from the area where we lived from a local 'Lampedari'. All our ceiling and wall lamps are made in Italy, as well as the outdoor lamps.

The top shelf holds some Colombian items from our extended family.

The bottom shelf shows Schwarovski pieces to the left and other crystals to the right from the Czech Republic.

A hand turned wooden lamp, made by the Father of a dear friend.

The cross stitch rose embroidered bell pull is hand made by me... 

It was part of my dowry.

The wooden tray has been hand carved by Pieter's Father and it does have a glass insert.

You also see one of my gilded magnolia leaves on it...

Silk rug from Srinagar Jammu & Kashmir State, India

Sea shells from the Island of Saint Martin in the Caribbean.

A real batik from Bali on the wall. Some antique botanical prints framed and my oak Dutch Zaanse clock.

China is: English Rose by Royal Doulton ←click it.

{Our Dutch Atlas Zaanse Wall Clock in Oak} ←click it.

English Rose by Royal Doulton

Antique oak tea cart, we removed its wheels...

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