Sheathing is halfway done on the walls

Dad came up here three days last week and worked on the framing for the two shorter walls of the addition, so today we finished the last of the framing on the front wall and installed about half of the sheathing on the exterior walls.

You can see where the new front window will go below (circled in orange). The window that's circled in blue below will be removed (the other half of it is already gone). The window that's not circled is going to stay in the location it is, but we will be replacing it with a new and more efficient one.

When we put siding back up on the front of the house, I plan to use white siding. It has always bothered me that all the siding on the house what white except for the front, which was green. I also want to put in a new front door in black and repaint the shudders black. The other option was dark blue (not quite navy, but close) door and shudders, but ultimately Chuck and I decided on black.