It's been 3 weekends of scraping, priming and picking out paint. You'd never know we've put in as many hours as we have, there is still so much to do. And we've even had help! But we finally found our color, and we are making way with the scraping and priming, so hopefully 1 o 2 more weekends and it will look completely different!
Right now it's a bit of an eye sore... but our neighbors should be used to that... it's looked ugly for many years, a few more weeks should be just fine.