It’s that blue and green Seahawks house you see from the road

Published 1:30 am Friday, September 14, 2018

EVERETT — On a scale of 1 to 10, this house is a 12.

It is painted in dark blue and lime green Seahawk splendor.

Look at the house and it looks back. The garage doors are Hawk eyes.

It doesn’t stop there.

The Ford F-150 and Ford Fusion in the driveway are also swathed in Seahawkism.

It’s a tribute to Peggy and Jonathan Sharp’s fandom.

“This is how we are supporting the team,” she said. “Being a lifetime Seahawks fan you just like to do something special.”

It started four years ago when they needed to replace the front door.

“We wanted to do something fun with it, so we painted it green,” Peggy said.

The house also needed a new paint job.

“It was a light blue with white trim and it was fading and really needed to be painted so we decided, why not paint it Seahawk colors?” she said.

Yeah, why not? No need to settle for beige or gray. Not when you can choose team colors.

“It took on a mind of its own,” Jonathan said. “Everything just kind of fell into place. We didn’t have to argue about anything.”

The vinyl designs on three garage doors were the finishing touch.

“People say it’s pretty cool. It’s not overdone,” Peggy said. “We were going to go green gutters, but it would have been too much.”

The house sits at the back of 128th St. SW, a dead-end street, with no houses facing it. A glimpse of the front can be seen from Airport Road, between East Gibson Road and Admiralty Way. Not much traffic comes by, other than to turn around or to snap a photo.

“A lot of times they’ll pull in the driveway and take pictures from their car,” Jonathan said.

The inside of the house?

“It’s not that drastic,” she said.

There’s a green wall and blue wall. Team blankets. Seahawks clocks. Two mannequins dressed in Hawks garb.

As for the Sharps, they only wear jerseys on Blue Friday and game days. They have his-and-her favorite players. She cheers for Tyler Lockett. He likes K. J. Wright and Bobby Wagner.

It’s easy to find their cars in the parking lot at Boeing, where both work. At first, Peggy had a Seahawks-wrapped Toyota Corolla, and when she switched to a Ford Fusion, it got wrapped after a month.

“I couldn’t take it anymore. It was too blah. It was all gray,” she said.

The car that is not Seahawks colors belongs to her mom, who lives with the family and likes driving something “blah.”

Peggy helped her dad build her house, next to his, 26 years ago.

The Seahawksification happened after he died.

“He would have loved it,” she said. “He was a huge, huge, huge Seahawks fan.”

For their son, Anthony, a high school freshman, what’s it like living in the Seahawks house?

He shrugs.

“If I liked sports it would probably be better,” he said.

Andrea Brown: abrown@heraldnet.com; 425-339-3443. Twitter @reporterbrown.