A few years ago I finally got around to finishing the south wall of the parlor (right), and valiant Kenny showed up on horseback to paint a lot of the porch ceiling. A while later I realized that I painted the south wall in the wrong color! Egads! The color is the actual original siding color! The color to the left is what I have been using to paint the whole house. I realized though in 2017 that this was not the original color but the second color. Anyway, I had been planning to repaint the south wall to match the rest of the house but have now decided to leave my goof in situ because I enjoy seeing what the actual original color scheme was, and because this will be a fun thing to talk about while giving tours.

The slightly lighter original color looks great but does not quite work with the ceiling color. The original porch ceilings were a VERY pale olive. In the 1890s, lilac and purple porch ceilings were popular and I wanted to bring this back because nobody paints their porch ceilings in such colors anymore. Note: Blue became the basic default color in the 1920s.