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What Exterior Paint Colors would you choose for our house?

5 years ago

last modified: 5 years ago

We're going to paint the exterior of our house to freshen it up. Currently we are thinking of three colors - white for the brick and roof wood peaks, a brighter white for windows and trim, and then black for porch coloumns, door (new one eventually), black shutters added (and maybe a black porch rail).

Any suggestions on colors?

Would you paint the brick and roof peaks the same white color?

Will this be enough of an fresh look/update doing three colors?

We're open to all suggestions, thanks!

(Eventually these two big bushes will be gone too.)

Roof Peaks and brick below.

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decoenthusiaste
5 years ago
What are your plans for the brown roof? That's the kicker here. You can get a fresh new look and save a lot of money by simply beefing up the columns, getting a new front door. and sinking the majority of your budget into landscaping designed by a professional landscape architect. A new coat of white paint on the trim and eaves, plus a wood stained front door will look spiffy, classic and great.
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Creative Visual Concepts, Kevin Strader
5 years ago
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.

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I'm not an architect or a designer ....just a lowly poster but something about the stone on the bottom and the weightiness. I could be totally off. Maybe one of the architects here or designers will weigh in on the columns. i chose my stone first. Then I chose my siding color to complement the stone. But, I had no choice as we had to have the stone months before the house project started. I would have done it the same way ...stone first.
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Contrast, contrast contrast. Either go dark taupe or stone white like below, but that blue has to go.
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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
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Agree with deco, don't paint the brick. Put the money in landscaping and the other items she spelled out for you.

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