WELCOME

Welcome to our blog about our Orlando vacation villa: The Retreat by the Lake. Here we will be posting updates about the newly renovated house and its availability as a rental villa when we are unable to be there ourselves.
We started this blog in the middle of November, 2010 to chronicle the renovation of the villa. Please see the archive (lower left) to read all about the how the reno went and how The Retreat became a luxury 5-star vacation home where you could stay on your next trip to Orlando to visit the awesome theme parks, to enjoy the many wonderful golf courses in the area, to watch baseball spring training, or for a pre- or post-cruise excursion.
Please feel free to leave your comments about our postings... we'd love to hear from you and what you think about The Retreat.

Friday, December 3, 2010

Changing colors/colours

The Retreat is changing colors/colours.  The villa needed to be re-painted, but we had a very limited selection of paint colors/colours from which to choose.  The Home Owners Association (HOA) in Sunset Lakes strives for a "common look and feel" for the community and, therefore, has a color/colour palette of paint colors/colours for homeowners who wish to paint their homes.  There's not a lot of variety, but at least it prevents the purple and lime green eyesores (no offence to those who like purple or lime green!).  We picked "Anew Gray" for the walls and "Aleutian" (deep blue/gray) for the front door.  It's a nice combination.

We've gone from this:                                                             to this:

 
                                                                   
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