Curb Appeal, Episode 2

So today I tossed all the samples in the car: Platinum, Pewter, and Oyster siding; Biscuit, Tan, and Beige trim, Sienna and Natural Blend Weather Ledge stone. And off we went to the house I've had my eye on since the beginning, with Mary once again in the role of Watson.

O Fortune! The lot next door to The Favorite House had a For Sale sign up. This meant that we had license to stroll, with impunity and without police cruisers, into the lot and gaze about. Naturally our gazes drifted toward the house next door. And eventually so too did our persons drift in that direction, toward the wall of the house, and as we drifted our samples happened to drift out of the bag and arrange themselves nonchalantly against the siding. O Fortune, thou art indeed most fair! A perfect match. A miracle. The siding color is known: Pewter.

Next act of divination: the confounding stone.

Meanwhile, the day when these decisions must be written in stone fast approaches. Look at this house: