Anyone? Now leaning toward a white like “White Dove” for the siding and trims and “Hale Navy” for shutters. Should door be Hale Navy too? Or a different shade of navy? A different color all together?

How fun! What a great exterior! What color family do you like? Are you restricted in your neighborhood to only certain colors? Any of the Benjamin Moore Historical colors are classic....

https://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/color-overview/find-your-color/color-collections/hc/historical-colors

If you know photoshop, which it looks like you do, play around with the navy/white. It's hard to envision without photoshop ideas....

What about reversing your plan and doing navy on the clapboard with white trim. You could do either white or wood shutters.

I do love tha red door! Thank you! We ideally would keep the house white just because it has been white since 1840. We want to keep it as original as we can. But maybe the navy shutters with a red door would look good!

Laura - it was actually the shutter manufacturer that did that photoshop for us. Haha. I’m horrible with it! We are restricted to historical colours but they are pretty flexible with them. As long as it isn’t neon purple or anything crazy they don’t care too much. We would prefer to keep the siding white as it’s been that way since it was built... but was thinking a softer white to add some intrigue and depth. But maybe a stark white is actually better in this case?

Black shutters on white clap would be classic. I'd do a brighter red for the door. Maybe some wood window boxes.

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If you choose blue I'd pick a very rich tone.

Lovely house. Not white, but this is one of my favorites.

A different style house but just chose to keep ours white as it has been since about 1835. I found an almost identical house in smokey blue with white white trim but it seemed wrong to change it on a very visible property in town. We have black shutters and a bright yellow door (painted back and shed door to match too).

i live in a historical house, so i understand the wanting to keep it what it has always been.. but... in a place where you get snow, i'd really do something for a contrast.

I like the creamy color that saypoint suggested.

@NathanT, then stick with white (BM white dove is classic), and perhaps dark navy or black shutters. If you want to make a bold statement, a beautiful, rich, red door. I also love black doors with gorgeous gold hardware and toe kick, etc. Love the look of the Cape Cod House KathrynP posted....

Can you have some box planters made for under the windows?

I agree with ninigret, the white snow means your white house disappears. In fact at first I thought you posted a line drawing!

There's also the consideration that the two flanking houses are very light grey and white. Even your car is white!

You mentioned that everything looks better now that it's green and I think that is a tip-off to what your house needs, which is four-season interest and beauty.

A light muted pastel such as dusty pink, powdery blue (not the 90s iteration!), sage, or yellow would look so fresh and pretty against the white snow in winter and bright greens in summer. Black or grey shutters would look great with these colours and you could still have a deep red door with some of them, or plum.

I love this colour scheme, obviously the house is more ornate but look how the colours bring it to life!

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Thank you all so much. This has all been so helpful. I'm now rethinking everything! Ha. I think you're onto something re: the snow and the white. I do like the idea of using a color like you suggested lindsey... I had considered a light blue but was worried it looked too much like the vinyl blue that was everywhere around here in the 90s (thinking that's what you're referencing). The sage is intriguing to me - our neighbors are grey, yellow, and dark red (their main house colors). Any suggestions on good sages or blues to consider?

Laura - I think some planter boxes would be awesome! I'l definitely look into that. Would have create some more interest!

saypoint - any idea what color paint is used on that house you posted? It looks great!

The cream color looks a lot like what I just painted my living room. BM cream fleece or a shade darker. Another to look at is bm Nantucket gray. A beautiful green.

The questions for this one say it's SW Willow Tree. Love it.

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Ptreckle - the house is in Atlantic Canada and originally had two chimneys coming out on both sides. It was a Georgian-style but looks very much like the Maritime vernacular style we see a lot here. So it never had much in terms of trim. And yes - plan is to get operable shutters!