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Trim colors on exterior brick ranch and photoshop help needed.

8 years ago

I have tried to use the paint store app but I am just not savvy enough to figure it out. I have decided to paint the trim on my brick ranch using a couple of shades of gray. (medium and dark grays, I think). I get really confused when I start thinking about what shades on what parts. Like for instance, the downspouts keep throwing me off. Or the door color will throw me off. I'm going nuts! Please save me. Lol.

Here are some facts to consider. I am getting a new replacement door. It will be a 2/3 door with 4 glass panes at the top. The storm door will be gone and there will be slightly different molding around the door. I can't decide on whether to paint or stain the new door. I'm open to either. I am meeting with a landscaper this month and will be moving some things and adding some things around the front to improve the overall appearance. I know I need some height and different color shrubs. Its coming....

I would like to use Sherwin Williams paint if possible. I keep getting drawn to the gray/greens...connected grey (6165), or pewter green (7749). I haven't actually tested anything yet against my brick. It would be fun to pick a nice fun color for the door, but that may be too much with everything else going on. My brick is very busy looking.

Any thoughts? Anyone willing to photoshop something for me?

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sylviatexas1
8 years ago
Your house is a gorgeous, classical, balanced, symetrical style, & I'd think it will look best with colors that are in keeping with that image...even if you have to think a while to figure out what to use!

The brick & wrought iron & the very size of it give it weight, so you need colors with "weight" so that they look well-matched with the rest of the house, & since the brick has depth & texture, you want simplicity.

Paint the downspouts as close to the brick color as possible to camouflage them.

I like the way the house looks now, as far as matching & contrast, so I'd experiment with maybe charcoal gray or British racing green (deepest green in the universe, with a little black mixed in) for the shutters, & spanking white for columns & window trim.

I like the red door, but if you want a change, maybe stain the door a walnut color & use the same color on the area above the porch.

That combination might give the house a "lodge" kind of atmosphere...

or you could go spanking white on everything but the door & use a deep Chinese laquer red on it.

Whatever you do, it's a beautiful house, & you'll have a lot of fun working on it!
twilcox thanked sylviatexas1
emmarene9
8 years ago
I think you have a better chance at getting photoshop help if you post this in Home Decorating forum.
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