Paint

[Jennifer carr]

We couldn’t be more excited to be joining you all in RiNo.   We’ve been looking for a year plus and kept pointing to your townhomes as the example of sophistication.    S-Park was an option but we felt it too big – too commoditized for us, especially when the next phase arrives.    Relative to painting we believe it’s important to maintain that sophistication and in no way pay homage or a nod in color to S-Park as we are concerned it will make blocks of homogenized units.   We think our more intimate scaled development should remain quietly unique and let the artwork of the neighborhood be the statement of color.    So our paint/color opinions:

 

With regard to fading, the product warranty in the current paint bid ranges from 2-6 years.  Regardless of warranty, the existing paint and pallet has far out lasted its life expectancy and looks relatively good, especially on 26^th St with most weathering occurring in the lightest color on the Lawrence Street exposure.     Regardless of color/warranty it seems reasonable to expect paint maintenance every 7-10 yrs. with a little more on the sun exposed.  Understanding that you all considered re-siding, we believe paint is probably a better return on investment. Paint is cheap. 

 

In consideration of heat gain, a lighter color around the roof top decks could offer some relief, but not an extreme change, but we should work toward that.

 

We rendered the June color choices to aid discussions.  (June’s color choices where short one as the building currently has four colors.)    We don’t know how married anyone is to these options.  To keep things simple we did not use professional rendering software from our firm, rather Sherwin Williams’ software program.    It’s accessible and can be edited on the fly and the color choices are accurate to the paint bid.  In addition to the June options we experimented with over 20 different color combos.  Driving our color experiments, we went back to purchasing our unit - the only unfortunate thing we found was the pinkness of the stucco base, which is prevalent on Lawrence.    We also felt the green could be improved upon but tolerable as is.    We love the dark grey on 26^th because it is not really a color.   It is just a backdrop.

 

This is our suggestion. We’ve come full circle to improving what is already there  - that rendering is called Overt.     The roof top deck would change on the inside to a light grey away from the dark grey (called Outerspace appropriate for RiNo). In our opinion, June’s brick red option overall is too putty and the combinations are not as complementary as they could be.    The blue option feels better suited to a Colonial. The color even comes from the Benjamin Moore historic collection.   Only our opinion, but those combinations wash out the building’s personality.   We feel it is a modern building and feels better with the contemporary approach as originally designed. 

 

We are so concerned about offending our new neighbors but want to share our thoughts.   I’m not sure these townhouses would have caught our eye if they were painted either of these June options.    I hope to learn more about your take on this project.  See you in the hood tomorrow and Sat.  It is window replacement day!  I have the 20 some odd chips we experimented with and the Benjamin Moore chips too.   Look forward to feedback.   I get so nervous when I hit send but here goes! 

 

[Amber Paterson]

Ha ha. I appreciate your nervousness, but honestly, we're all pretty laid back here.

I was in the blue boat, but looking at the renderings, it doesn't seem enough of a contrast to the grey. So I agree with that

I actually like the red better as it is not nearly as orange as I had thought from the samples. But I also hear you on wanting to stand out as something different from S-Park. And will it fade to orange on the Lawrence side?

I am definitely not a fan of the current green. Maybe if it were a different form of green, rather than the cocktail olive-y color...

That all being said, I don't care a whole lot either way.

Thank you for your work on this and for attaching the renderings - much better than in my head.

Take care,

Amber

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[Jenna Edwards]

First off, thank you so much for putting the renderings together! It
was really helpful.

I am a fan of the last option, especially painting the stucco grey.
It made me realize how much I dislike the beige stucco. I personally
like the green but I am biased since its my favorite color. If
everyone is not sold on the green color then I think we should use
Outerspace, Misty, and Online as our base and experiment with the
accent colors. We could try a less brilliant green (not olive) and
maybe a red. I felt the blue looked a little washed out.

We are around all weekend and look forward to meeting you!

Jenna

[Julia Ann Wilder]

Same Jenna! I heart green. :))

Yes, wow!!! So impressed with these images. Truly anything compared to the look now looks fabulous. Love the outer space combo and ditching the pink/tan stucco.

2nd place is the red one.

Still in the camp of we are happy no matter what is picked, and just so glad to see some fresh paint slapped on.

Ten stars for The Carr family!! This is amazing. Thank you for all this great work and visuals.

Julia Ann Wilder
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[Jennifer carr]

I’m going to get a few quarts and mock it up for u guys. It will be on the outside wall inside fence since technically that is my wall and also out of public view. You will see it at some point tomorrow at some.

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[Amber Paterson]

thanks!

[Richard Koseff]

Hi,

Yes thanks very much, Carrs! 

Could someone post pics of the samples? I’m out of town for 2 more weeks. I like the last option, with Julia and Jen above. But I’m not sure about the green (love the other colors)— I’m thinking it may be the computer-color problem, so maybe a pic of the sample would help?

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[Cal Crawley]

Would anyone have the actual paint color names/paint codes that were used? 

Graffiti needs to be covered over before more is encouraged by the vandalism already done.

I've attempted to email all the addresses in the email trains I have and they are undeliverable (guess pandemic changed all their employment).

Thanks

[Jennifer carr]

Cal.  I have some paint in my garage. If it’s right stuff I’ll leave it for you.  If not I have more in Aspen.  I’ll get back to you on this.  I do have all the paint specs somewhere.  

Jen 

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On Mar 1, 2022, at 8:51 AM, Cal Crawley <craw...@yahoo.com> wrote: