Front Door Color Help Needed for SW Anonymous Painted House
cplover
7 years ago
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New house need help with front door color!
Comments (27)If you can narrow down your choices to three or four, I recommend buying some large plain white poster paper and painting a LARGE swatch of each test color, leaving a 2" white border around the edge so that you don't compare the color with whatever is immediately around it, but still see the color in its intended environment. This works for interior and exterior areas. Hang the swatches with painters tape in the area where you want to try it and let it stay there for a few days days while you think about it and look at it different times of day. Don't rush it! Those little Benjamin Moore paint pods are about $5 and other paint brand sample sizes are inexpensive, too. You can easily paint large swatches with the samples and the expense is minimal compared with the cost of having to do something and then re-do it because the color isn't right. You'll be surprised how different a color can look in larger quantities than on a paint chip. N.E.V.E.R pick a paint color from a paint chip or from an online picture. Monitors, cameras, and computers' calibrations, time of day, seasons, area of the country you live in- so many variables when it comes to how any color looks. It's worth it to use HUGE swatches. Paint chips really are just a start to finding the perfect color. Also, if you find a color is perfect but it's too dark you can have the paint folks mix the color at a % formula- 50% if you want it half as dark, etc....See MoreI need help to choose a door color and house paint!!!!!
Comments (53)Wow, that's gorgeous! Great choice. It's amazing what a difference it makes, isn't it? The house doesn't look boring at all. I'd keep the siding color as is....See MoreNeed help with exterior house colors; shutters, front door.
Comments (4)Very first impression is there are way too many narrow shutters and none fit the windows properly. What is not taken advantage off is the mill work over the windows. If painted the white of the windows, the windows would be lovely without the shutters. Shiny red front door….....See MoreExterior SW paint colors for stucco home with tan roof, want aqua door
Comments (2)IMO san, tan and beige are all just shades of beige. You already have that so why not just do the garage door the same and do your aqua door...See Morecplover
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