Interesting! thank you. I'm happy to use Benjamin Moore too and will pick up the samples today. I wouldn't have picked those on my own but now that I see it before I see it would actually work pretty well. Especially the Beach Haven.

HI, We will soon be painting our house and I am seeking advice on exterior paint colors. We have a colonial house with wood siding. Currently it is a sage color with cream trim. (I don't mind the sage color, but my husband doesn't care too much for it.) In our neighborhood, houses tend to be tan, yellow, blue, green, and grey. Our neighbors houses are dark blue, tan and yellow. Here are a couple of colors that caught my eye, but are open to all suggestions: Tan (Sherwin Williams Avenue Tan 7453 with white trim and Benjamin Moore Boston brick for front door.) Blue (Valspar™ 4006-4B Retro-colonial Blue with white trim and black or red door) Benjamin Moore Newburg Green (HC-158) Benjamin Moore Evening Dove 2128-30 Benjamin Moore Copley Gray HC-104 with white trim Benjamin Moore Cromwell Gray HC-103 with white trim Your input is greatly appreciated!

To answer your question, I don't have any specific green paint colors to recommend. Since you have partial color blindness, ask the color consultant at a Sherwin Williams store (or other local paint store) for help. Bring photos of the red brick taken with a piece of white paper to help the color balance. It would be best for finalize a color choice after the brick is cleaned and the walls are primed. The actual precise shade of a light paint doesn't matter so much for a renovated rental duplex because most tenants want "light, bright and airy" rather than "dark, atmospheric and gloomy". Your fall-back color can be white, of course.

The stone gives your home a casual country feel, so the rigid and formal hedges look very out of place. I would pull those out and install a more open and airy landscape using lots of native perennials that will thrive in your locale but not become invasive. The concrete planters are also of a different era than your country home, so remove them. Consider installing some landscape lights that highlight the stone. And since the stone is so massive, I would remove the little arch details on your porch posts and beef up the posts themselves so they have adequate visual heft to stand beside the massive stone wall and look like they can support your porch. Are you replacing the roof or cleaning it? I would take care of that before choosing a siding color, and I vote to remove the shutters. You should probably upgrade the porch lighting too.