Calling color experts for exterior paint! Please help, Pacific Blue..
Pacific Blue vinyl siding. Sable brown cedar shake accents. (cool brown almost gray). Narrowed it down to our painted Miratec trim, either SW Pure White or Snowbound. Attaching pics, Snowbound is on top. IPhone lightens the colors I think, but it's as good as it gets.
Looks like no difference here, but IRL it's more noticeable.
Suggestions welcome.
Edit: Posted on Paint but was hoping for more traffic here, deadline tomorrow. Yes, my contractor threw this on me last min.
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9 years agohappyallison
9 years agoI have Oakridge shingles in Driftwood. They are newer, and actually have blue in them, so we are leaving that $10,000 re-roofing project behind us and working with it. :)
I tried to pick whites that were off-white but not cream. Cream looks yellow against the blue. Also, I'm doing deck rail in man-made hopefully and I want things to blend with those materials. Painting where I'm located and my lot steepness, veeeery pricey. I need low maintenence. I'll try to post a pic.
This will just be lap siding and no band board, this was playing around. Sable in gables, which are very hidden.
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