If you’ve been keeping up with us, you already know we recently gave our house a major facelift. We refinished and replaced shutters on every window for a bold, sophisticated, modern, clean look that we just love. This entire project had us wondering why we didn’t tackle the shutters and doors much sooner, because that dingy, faded purple-ish, lilac-y color was – let’s be honest – awful!
We always knew we wanted to paint our front and back doors, but for whatever reason this project was just not that high on the to-do list. We are so happy we made this a priority because it was super easy the results are fantastic.
With the new shutters in place and the newly painted doors, we just can’t get over how much better the house looks! Enough about how excited we are for this update, now for the story behind the color.
As I always say, we are Lowe’s people and Lowe’s carries Valspar paints so our entire house is pretty much covered in it. You may or may not know this, but Valspar does this really cool thing where they are partnered with the National Trust for Historic Preservation (you can read more about that here). So with this partnership, Valspar sells 250+ different colors “from historic places across the country and representing American colors from a variety of periods and styles.”
We’ve always wanted to pick one of these Historic Preservation colors for a paint job, but we’ve somehow never managed to do so…until now!
The pretty Robin’s egg blue type of color we chose for our front and back doors is called “La Fonda Mirage.”
This color came from the Southwestern palette of the National Trust for Historic Preservation collection. La Fonda on the Plaza is a Historic Hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Fonda is synonymous with “Inn” and the history of this location dates back to the early 1600s when the Spaniards founded Santa Fe. According to the hotel’s website, historical records suggest the building sits on the oldest hotel corner in America.
Pretty cool, huh? And now our doors are representing a color from this awesome piece of history. It’s definitely fun to paint with these colors and look up the meaning behind them. Kinda makes me want to paint something else very soon! Maybe the living room??
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