Painting partial exterior of house, colors
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Painting Exterior (including brick) of my house . . . help!
Comments (4)What a nice looking home! A few suggestions...that bush on the right of the picture is too large and too close to the house so you'd probably have to remove it to paint anyway. Keep plantings away from the house for water drainage reasons as well as aesthetics as the plants get bigger. The shutters on the house are too small....either remove or replace. To look right, shutters have to look like they actually work....when shut, just cover the window. I like the brick and would try to work with it. However, if you choose to paint the brick then consider eliminating the wall sconces and replacing with a pendant in your lovely arched porch. It will highlight the porch and the front door so much more. (I think the brick would be too hard to patch well unless painted.) It's hard to see what's going on with the front door...does that have sidelights? If not, I'd consider replacing it with a door that does....more glass and jewelry will really make that entry way a total wow! My preference is not for blue. Blue is a hard color to get right on the exterior. (Neighbors really flubbed it with their house which is now port-a-pot blue!) But it can be done if it has enough gray in it. You might go to the Certainteed website where they have a colorview area where you can select a home similar to yours and paint it different colors to see what you might like. Sherwin Williams has a color visualizer on their website that allows you to upload your own photo and try on paint colors. Benjamin Moore has their color gallery where you can select the color of your brick and then it will recommend color combos. For example if I select BM silver crest it recommends slate blue or red river clay along with the dark gray like your roof color. Here is a link that might be useful: Silvercrest...See MorePainting the exterior of my house
Comments (1)Cassie, try posting this on the Home Decorating forum, along with a photo of the front of the house. The one piece of advice I can give is to test the paint color in the actual location before buying a gallon of it. You cannot believe how much different a color will look outside....See MoreSealing/painting partially finished wall of drawers
Comments (2)Thanks for the suggestions. I'm off to get the Zinsser now. Is there any reason in particular that you suggested high quality enamel rather than paint?...See MoreExterior House Painting
Comments (2)Do you have any photos to post? They really are worth a 1,000 words and really help when needing design advice ;)...See MoreLars
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