{"id":196,"date":"2005-04-21T10:47:26","date_gmt":"2005-04-21T16:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/squids.ca\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/21\/home-renovations\/"},"modified":"2005-04-21T10:47:26","modified_gmt":"2005-04-21T16:47:26","slug":"home-renovations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"Home Renovations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve done it now.  Last night we hired a contractor to replace the entire outside of our house: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shingles &#8212; Charcoal Grey.  Dark but not TOO dark<\/li>\n<li>Soffits and Eaves &#8212; Also a grey.  Shelley would have liked to go right to a black, but it never happened.<\/li>\n<li>Siding &#8212; A light brown vinyl.  Here, we have to content with the bricks at the front of the house.  They are orangy\/red, terracotta colour, and a grey siding would look both dated (grey is SO OUT) and funny.<\/li>\n<li>Windows &#8212; All the windows except the livingroom and diningroom windows, both of which were quite new.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I won&#8217;t tell you what it&#8217;s costing because it would nausiate both you and me.<br \/>\nI do have a question though.  What should we do with the old cedar siding?  Some people say to keep it and try to sell it, saying that you can get a couple hundred bucks for it.  My feeling is that we should just get the contractor to &#8220;make it go away&#8221;.  Comments?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve done it now. Last night we hired a contractor to replace the entire outside of our house: Shingles &#8212; Charcoal Grey. Dark but not TOO dark Soffits and Eaves &#8212; Also a grey. Shelley would have liked to go right to a black, but it never happened. Siding &#8212; A light brown vinyl. Here,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}