FWIW - We recently moved from a community (Florida) that had FOUR houses in a row the SAME color, one of which was OURS. Sure they were slightly different styles and two had a slight different trim color" but even three had same color roofs. Back in 1988 it started as (as was still supposed to be) "deed restricted" with H.O.A. but the HOA "dissolved" years ago and I guess "anything goes" as they say.... the lack of ANY "enforced" HOA was one of the main reasons (in addition to sloppy, un-cut lawns, vehicles and boats all over the streets, rowdy kids, etc.) we only stayed there one year then moved out !! Anyway, back ON-topic...... the "look" of FOUR houses the SAME COLOR was the strangest thing we ever saw, unfortunately down here in ever-growing Florida, it is very, very common, and when on a "zero-lot-line" (ONLY 7 1/2 feet TOTAL BETWEEN BOTH HOUSES) it really looks strange.

smiles - try this: http://www.sherwin.com/visualizer/ Choose Exterior Scene. Try the Spanish Revival house (or any other you want), then plug in some colors like Mossy Gold (just request Mossy or you'll get a whole bunch of different golds), Baguette, a peachy pink like Constant Coral or any other colors that will be suggested in this thread. You will also get suggested coordinating colors for doors, shutters and trim. Another idea is to go to your nearest paint store like SW or BM and ask what are the most popular colors for your style house. Take a picture of your house and ask to talk with the color consultant when you're there and see what they recommend. Doesn't hurt to gather as many opinions as possible and see if there is a common thread.

ARGH: I keep missing that I wanted to say thanks to decorpas for your comment right at the start! It's always good to have support for a choice that is still purely theoretical...do you have any thoughts on a roof color? And it's not so much the *color* as the idiom--cottagey vs. modern, iykwim. The houses were all built at the same time, and I guess it's o.k.; it just looked so different yesterday and it gives off a more bucolic happy vibe now, vs. the downer shades of grey, deep red, and green that characterize the PNW :) Guess we'll be the severe modernist neighbor (albeit with sedum aplenty and none of that modernist discipline in the landscape design -- sometimes I see those nouvelle-cuisine gardens and think "now is the time on Sprockets when we plant!" :)) And Lindy and Amy, thanks...I think you're right, maybe, Lindy--cheery definitely sticks out here LOL...It is rather nice to look out on from our master bedroom, though--and the owner came home and said she thought it was too light--I honestly don't think it looks bad at all, just a different "mood". The only greens I can't find a place for in my heart are Kelly and mint green, and sometimes 80s forest green. Other than that I'm very easy wrt green :) Amy, when I was purchasing the samples at the BM store I commiserated with a saleswoman there--evidently we had fathers who had made similarly horrid house paint choices when we were children--I'm sure it was an element of our being judged when parents came to pick up their daughters after an overnight (see the thread on the other side :))--I really think it was my father's peasant taste combined with his napoleonic autocratic approach to decision making, but the colors he evidently chose without consulting with my mother looked like a circus tent to me--sunshiny yellow with spring green trim, I kid you not. Really traumatizing every time I looked at it. I'm going to paint up more of the side of the house in the 150% SHG tomorrow just to reassure myself...so what color shingles should I order? (they have cedar shake, and black next to us--but no one sees our roof anyway, so it's nowhere near as high-stakes a choice :))

I think the gray on those houses is attractive, as is ceezee's. I like colors that set off the landscape colors, including various shades of green, and gray is one that does. You can also find a house in real life you like and try to get the paint color name from the owners. SW can color match if it's a different brand.