Let me address this in two parts.
First the gray.
My porch (3 story, first built in 1909) Still has a few original boards. In spite of the fact that the Dept of Buildings makes a beeline to my door every time a porch collapses in the city. Stratographic analysis of paint chips shows Ochre, dark brown, white (might be white lead primer), several layers of grays, dark brown, gray and finally the g
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