Help Me Pick an Exterior Paint Colors to work with This House
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Comments (1)Suggestion - post over at the Home Decorating site and, if possible, post a picture along with your post. In the meantime, try this site for experimentation. You can choose house colors, shingle colors, door, trim etc. in a mix and match way. http://exteriorfx.owenscorning.com/exteriorfx/Welcome.do...See MoreHelp me pick a color for house exterior!
Comments (1)It's a lovely house. I do think it looks a bit monochromatic though, even with the blue shutters. I'd suggest more than just the 2 colors. I think the interesting architectural features (porch and triangle area over the garage) are getting lost. When I painted my house, I knew I wanted to change the color scheme. I ended up hiring a color consultant because I wasn't sure what colors would work with my orange/red roof. It cost me around $18k to paint the exterior of my house. I wanted to make sure that I would LOVE it and the consulting costs were a small percentage of the total. I ended up with 6 colors on my Dutch Colonial. Body, foundation, shutters, trim, accent, and front door. Check out the book "Bungalow Colors" by Robert Schweitzer. Look at some of the color schemes for the details, not just the body color. I think this is a very instructional book. Worth a read....See MorePlease help me pick out color for our house exterior! Pic
Comments (39)It is funny, but I did not change the garage door color. I used MS Paint and it did weird things to the roof too. Looking at it here, it seems like I made the top part brown.... I'd either do the garage door with the 2 light tones or keep it all white. I'd paint it last to see how it looks white first with the new house color. When I was working on the mock up, the lavender was either too strong or too light. I went with too light because the next step up was garish. Our lavender is sometimes very subtle, but when you see the nearby white, you realize it is not white too. It also looks different as the light changes throughout the day. I'll try to take an exterior pic of our house tomorrow. The landscaping needs a major trim, but the blooming trees out front are at their best. I work from my office Thurs-Sun and from home Mon-Wed (much fewer hours), so can do some work on them in the a.m. and take a neater photo ;) Although, it sounds like it is raining outside at the moment......See More1966 MCM Florida home - Please help me pick an exterior color scheme
Comments (18)What a wonderful project. And how nice that the house is set back so that different areas of transition can be created. Will you be growing tall trees so the home is eventually sheltered in dappled shade? Lower landscaping so the house rises above washed with sunshine? Do you want a rather mysterious look with a narrow area of accented house intriguing and drawing the eye in , making people going by try to see more? Do you want an open look with the property lushly foliaged but the house very much on display, serenely or exuberantly? If you have a image in mind of what you want, style, mood and light included, you could then drive around both creative older and expensively landscaped neighborhoods looking for ideas to realize it. Color choices made then? These mostly lack the rich color you want, but I was mostly thinking first of how it might be dressed with garden. :) Lush elsewhere, perhaps, but close in as open and airy as the interior? I'm really not crazy about brown in general, but even I think a brown reminiscent of wet tree trunks works wonderfully to accent and tie inside, transition areas, garden together. The previous property uses it also....See MoreRelated Professionals
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