HELP! What Color to Paint Siding that Goes With Brown Trim
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We have a bedford stone house with chocolate brown soffit, fascia and gutters. The windows are trimmed in white. I am trying to figure out what color to paint the concrete lapboard siding. We tried a rust color and a tan color, but I feel like we need a better contrast color. I really like blues, but I'm not sure what shade would work. But, I am open to other colors as well. Please let me know your ideas!!
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Comments (7)If you had a 'jumping-off-point' such as a patterned fabric, rug, or even a piece of art it might be easier for you to choose a color. Really almost any color goes with brown tones. I have a lot of brown in my home and have used red, sage green, pale yellow, gold, lime green, blue, cream, dusty rose, for walls and/or accents at various times. All shades of turquoise from pale robin's egg blue to teal work well with browns. I've seen some amazing rooms using pale pink with browns. Choose one of your favorite colors and get some paint chips and go from there. Here is a link that might be useful: How to pick perfect paint colors...See MoreShutter and Trim Colors for Weathered Brown Lap Siding
Comments (3)Congratulations on your new home! Weathered shingle houses are VERY common in my "stomping grounds" of eastern NH and eastern Maine. The shingles tend to go gray more often than brown around here, but we do see quite a bit of that distinctive mixture of browns ranging from almost golden-y to a bitter-chocolate color. Probably the biggest thing to pay attention to is the color value of the roof - the accent colors should be about the same value (meaning lightness or darkness) as the roof. If the roof is too pale for the rest of the house it can look a little like the roof is going to lift off and float away, if it's too dark for the rest of the colors it looks overly heavy, like it's weighting down the house (a very common problem). If your roof is light-colored, like the verdigris color that's pretty popular for green metal roofing, look to the lighter tones in the variegated shingles and riff off those for the color value of your trim. The accent color I see paired with this siding most often is a rich browny-red, which would look wonderful and not necessarily all Christmasy with the green roof. If you want to "perk up" any window sashes or other details with a lighter color, a very deep cream or even putty would look nice, but don't tart it up too much. Another color I've seen work really well a few times is a slatey blue, although the success of that would again depend on the roof. Check out the deeper blues in the BM Historical line like Hale Navy or Newburyport Blue. When we were househunting two summers ago we looked at a little bitty antique (very early 19th century) Cape Cod with weathered-brown shingles. It had white window sashes and wide board-and-batten shutters (completely operable) and board-and-batten front door were a moderately deep, muted blue-green color. The heavier trim around windows and doors was the same as the shingles. IIRC the roof was halfway between bark brown and charcoal gray. It was a real charmer but not in a great location for us....See MoreHelp! What trim color goes well with Swiss Coffee walls?
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Comments (28)@JustMe the Mt. Washington Hotel is about 40 minutes away, so we're not overlooking it. I really like that blue, and if we had a black roof (and black trim windows) that's almost certainly the route we'd go. There are several places around with that color blue, and they can look stunning. It's just not a color combo with the red roof that we'd go for. In your mock-up there's 4 different colors going on, red roof, blue clapboards, brown/bronze windows, and white trim. It feels too busy. Here's what we've mostly settled on. Sherwin-Williams Alabaster white and soffit trim painted to match window trim. (I also photoshopped in a larger window on the right, to reflect what's gone in to replace that weirdly small window that had been there) They're going to paint some panels in that and the other two warm whites I mentioned before, but we're leaning very much toward Alabaster. The configurator makes it look even more cream colored than it seems to appear in real life (2nd picture)....See More
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6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoI like a sage green for the concrete lapboard siding. It will especially be nice when you get the landscaping finished. The green I am thinking of is these pics below (hidden by tree/bush). I think it will enhance your stone and mesh nicely with the brown: natures colors.
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