exterior colors for 1920's house?

19 years ago

What are your favorite house colors? Horisontal wood siding on a simple farmhouse from 1928... Trim is white, roof is steel. Location: deep south.

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Rudebekia
19 years ago
You might want to look at the book Bungalow Colors: Exterior by Robert Schweitz (or Schwartz, can't remember). Although yours is a farmhouse and not a bungalow you'll get great ideas about period color, including 1920s color charts from such companies as Sherwin Williams. The book is packed with ideas and pictures!
zenpotter
19 years ago
Yes, do check out bungalow colors there are so many books on the market at the moment.

We are restoring our bungalow and using the colors of that period. Most paint companies have started producing pamphlets with colors of various periods. Sherwin Williams' pamphlet is very nice. I do have to admit we used their Arts and Crafts palette to choose, then brought it to our neighborhood hardware store and matched it to Valspar paint. I much prefer Valspar.

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Its a very cute house. Congratulations on your new home. I dont blame you though, I would be wanting to paint too. That blue doesnt go with one darn thing. i do really like your brick, and it looks like it belongs on your house, please dont paint it. I would look really close at the brick, and the color of the mortar and pick a color of either the mortar or a color in the brick itself ad repaint that blue really fast. I would paint the window trim white, which is probably the way it was when the house was built. I cant tell exactly what color that foundation is, except that it is way too light. It makes the house look like its sitting on a big box on a green yard. Try and pick a color really close to the brick, or a darker gray or brown (I cant tell the color of your roof for sure) so that it looks grounded.
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Rudebekia
19 years ago
Pauline,

Welcome to a fellow bungalow owner! If you don't know about it, the Twin Cities Bungalow Club's tour of bungalow kitchens is coming up on May 14.
jenswrens
19 years ago
Marita,

Where is the house tour and how do I sign up? I wanna go!! I'm in the Twin Cities and am in the process of totally redoing my 1920s kitchen.

I think my house might be a bungalow, it's stucco and has all the big bungalow-type woodwork inside, but it doesn't have the angled roof or porch. Here's a pic. What do you think? Is it a bungalow?

Here is a link that might be useful:
Rudebekia
19 years ago
Jenswrens,

I think I just replied to your post at Kitchens about maple versus cherry cabinets. Well, come to my house for the kitchen tour and see my cherry cabinets first hand!!

The Twin Cities Bungalow Club holds a home tour every year. It features kitchens this year, so you are in luck!!
The tour is Saturday May 14th from 10 am to 5 pm. There are 6 homes on the tour, four in Mpls and two in St. Paul (including mine). Start the tour at 4356 41st Ave. S. in Minneapolis (corner of 41st Ave. S. and 44 Street E.) where you will get a map and description to all the other houses. For more info, you can visit the TCBC website at
www.bungalowclub.org. It is a very active club with great events.
Rudebekia
19 years ago
Jenswrens,

A typical bungalow is much lower slung--more horizontal--than your house. Bungalows are generally 1 1/2 stories with exposed rafter tails and low ceilings. Four Squares, frequent around here, are a two story version. Your house looks almost neo-colonial to me, a style that rapidly superceded the bungalow/mission look in the mid-to-late 1920s and throughout the 1930s. Twin Cities houses of the period often reflect a "transitional" style with some bungalow features (such as built-ins) and some colonial features (such as the squarish symmetrical look of your two stories).
jenswrens
19 years ago
Thanks Marita. Now I finally know what to call my house! Neo-colonial. I knew it didn't look like an "official" bungalow, but the interior really resembles all the interiors of bungalows I've seen in books and magazines, with the woodwork and stuff.

I'm excited about coming on the tour! Will you be there so I can meet you?
erinmn
19 years ago
Hey, small world! I'll be attending the tour as well as I gather ideas for my 1923 NE Mpls bungalow. For the OP, I also really enjoyed that book, gives you some good ideas about what colors were popular for the era. Bungalows were pretty earthy in pallette, but I bet you could be livelier given the sun you must get in the deep south. I guess it depends on the look you're after, but I think creamy yellow for farmhouses is always cute!
caseyb
19 years ago
California Paints has a great historic colors pallette. I have used it exclusively, since I love the paint, and the colors are really attractive. I have enjoyed working with both (paint quality and colors).

Here is a link that might be useful: California Paints
Blooangl
19 years ago
Jenswren's house looked older than 1920's to me...but then again, I don't know all that much about dating houses.
Tell us about your house! It's gorgeous, and I'm drooling at the sight of all that beautiful woodwork.

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