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Hi everyone.
I just painted the house (front and back pictures attached). I decided to paint the top (2 rows), middle and bottom tiles from the brick orange colour tile to anthracite. You can see what it looked like before by seeing the neighbours side.
However, as you can see, I share a Ginnel with a neighbour and I've had to stop the anthracite line at the edge of the house.
How could this be aesthetically better? I feel the anthracite line stops dead and looks like paint has ran out. Any suggestions?
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I've took your first advice and paid for the neighbour. Much better. Not bad for a couple hundred quid.
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