Help with choosing paint colors for our exterior!
We are going repaint our house and need some help with colors. We want to go with an offwhite or creamy white color for the siding but don't know what do to about the window trim and other trim pieces. Do we pain the trim the same as the exterior, the same or similar to the window color (windows are Anderson 400's in terratone), or another color to tie everything together???
Would love to hear what people think! And sorry about the lack of landscaping, that's coming soon too!
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decoenthusiaste
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoDoes the house really need painting or are you just trying to change it? I'd rather see you spend your time and $$ laying a brick drive and walk to match our steps and foundation, pulling out those two clumpy shrubs by the garage and putting in a great landscaping plan. If you really must paint, I'd take it to a darker gray with white or cream trim and a deep red door. I'm afraid your windows are not the right style for this home and look like black holes, so you might add window boxes and beefier trim to distract the eye.
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Comments (2)Contrast, contrast contrast. Either go dark taupe or stone white like below, but that blue has to go....See MoreWhat Exterior Paint Colors would you choose for our house?
Comments (3)I would not paint the brick. You take a no maintenance product and turn it into a long term maintenance issue. Deco has a good idea of beefing up the columns. If a new front door is not in the budget then paint the one you have and add a POP of color to the front of the house, drawing the eye to the entrance. None of your windows are appropriate for shutters. They would have to be so wide to cover the windows that they would not look right. If you're going to use white then use one color of white for the trim and the windows. If you use two different whites the one on the trim is going to end up looking dingy when seen with the windows. Your shingles are a brown so I would stay away from black. You could paint the trim taupe (brown/gray), sage green, etc. and leave the windows white. If you wanted to do a porch rail I would paint it the same color as the trim. New landscaping would of course also help. If you're interested in seeing some virtual makeovers of your house check out my web site, Creative Visual Concepts....See MoreHelp choosing an exterior white Benjamin Moore color for our home
Comments (2)I think that LRV is the least important and easiest to determine aspect of color when trying to blend/match/complement another surface. Any light color, including white, has a high LRV--Chantilly Lace is 90% and White Wisp is 80%, so you probably won't see a difference between them outside, especially on a sunny day. More importantly, you need to take into account the hue and chroma of a color when looking for a complementary color for the pavers. Hue meaning the actual color as per the "rainbow" (red/orange/yellow/green/blue/purple), and chroma meaning how bright or saturated the color is. Your pavers look to be gray (from what I can tell from the photo), and if you want a color with a lower LRV, which means a darker color that won't be so reflective, then go with a medium gray, not any of the whites. Try Coventry Gray (HC169), Boothbay Gray (HC165), Brewster Gray (HC162), or any of the medium grays in the fandeck. Keep in mind that you need to see a large sample of the color outside, on sunny and cloudy days, to select the best color. Also keep in mind that all the neutral grays belong to a hue family--some will appear more blue/green/purple, etc. but you can only tell how they'll appear by viewing them yourself in your space. Good luck with your search!...See MoreWe need help choosing exterior colors for our house in Seattle
Comments (10)you already have the dark windows, so that's good. do a medium gray roof. that color will go w/everything. Do you like dark? if you did the dark siding and added some wood composite siding, it could look a bit more modern. I notice you have some cedar up under the roof eaves. that would be cool if you could do it elsewhere on the home. similar home style with a darker green siding and the brick lighter gray (btw, these all have the stairs like you have. check out some of the landscaping around them wood doors, and all the siding running the same way. Another gray with shingle siding. arbor over garage. cool landscaping here's a before and after where they painted the brick and did the black windows and added some wood siding accents...See More
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4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoLeave the exterior paint as is: I suggest adding appropriately sized shutters (with shutter dogs) to the 6 full sized windows, in the same brown (?) as the windows and painting the garage door the same brown, as well.
Driveway · More InfoI suggest adding appropriately sized shutters to the 6 full sized windows, in the same brown (?) as the windows and painting the garage door the same brown, as well.
Yes, deco’s right-on commen to fix the driveway. It is the “welcome” to your home.
decoenthusiaste
4 years agolast modified: 4 years ago
M Sav
4 years agoThank you everyone for the replies! Unfortunately we do have to paint the exterior. We bought the house last year and have been renovating it ever since. The previous owners did not take good care of it, so to protect the wood siding, it needs a couple coats of paint. Other than the trim (which was a faded baby blue when we bought it), we don’t believe it’s been painted in the last 20 years. So we figure if we have to paint, we might as well try something new and we’ve always loved white colonials. We do plan on putting new beefier/more colonial looking trim around the windows before paint.
The windows aren’t our favorite color but they’re Anderson 400’s in great condition, so they’re going to stay.
As far as the driveway, we’ve been looking into lining it with pavers, but it’s a pretty large and long driveway, so it’s going to be expensive. The main reason the driveway looked so rough is that it hasn’t been cleaned probably ever. It’s actually a very nice “pebblestone” drive (concrete with pebble aggregate). I just bought a pressure washer last night and started cleaning it off, and it’s looking better already (still have a lot more to do)!
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