Boring beige exterior to stately slate
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Comments (23)Thanks again for all of the suggestions. Lukkiirish, I like brown. The home I'm living in is painted BM Alexandria Beige with Clinton Brown on the gables and Linen White on the trim. And even though we're on 3 acres, we do have neighbors on either side with brown homes, so I wanted something different. It changes hourly, but right now I have SW Connected Gray for the body, Garden Gate for the gables (I'm thinking the grey in Thunderous wouldn't look good next to the metal roof) , Alabaster for the trim/posts/eaves and porch ceilings and Gambol Gold for the doors. But like I said, it changes hourly...husband is now liking the svelte sage, but it's too light - I think..... We did pick up some blue samples- Foggy Day, Granite Peak and Naval. They are beautiful, but at this point I like the darker greens...but it might change! Thanks all!...See Morebrown and beige boring exterior.
Comments (11)I think the brown that you have right now is just fine, and assuming your windows are aluminum or vinyl, you'd probably like the maintain white in the color scheme too. The most important thing here is to draw attention away from the garage door and man door to the garage and toward the front door. The garage door should be painted the same color as the body of the house, and the garage man door could be painted to match as well. Then the porch posts and eaves should be painted your trim color. The shutters could be painted either a slightly gray blue, deep red, or a muted green depending on your preferences. I would take that same accent color and paint the gable end of the porch in it. It's unfortunate that the birch is planted dead center on the front door, but I'd be inclined to try to work with it before cutting it down to do something different. Biggest thing that can be done with hardscaping is to upgrade to a wider entrance walk that flares out away from the house when it meets the driveway to be more visually welcoming. Consider doing it in pavers or slate/flagstone to add a little color and feeling of quality right at the entrance....See MoreBoring beige brick exterior. HELP!
Comments (17)To get suggestions here about landscaping, it ihelpful if you take photos to both the left and right of the photo first posted along with a little bit about goals, time, energy and interest in gardening. ddd’s sketch above is great and I love how it uses a wall or fence and landscaping away from the foundation to create a sitting area. But that isn’t useful if you live on a busy road or have no time for or Interest in gardening. So spend time thinking about how you might use your yard and look at a lot of photos or landscaping books to get some idea of what appeals to you. Maybe consult with a garden coach or landscape designer to get some direction or a design that you can implement as time and funds allow. Start with hardscape and utilities and then slow growing plants like trees....See MoreFront of house is boring. I need some inspiration!
Comments (24)I'm in the midwest, and I added lots of flowering shrubs, evergreen shrubs, and semi-evergreen plants so that my mostly partial-shady lot looks good when everything else is brown in the late fall, non-snow-covered days in winter, and early spring. Unlike the previous two winters, this one has been light on snow. I love coming and going to the house from the mailbox by the street and seeing a variety of evergreen shrubs and trees of various types and sizes - yews (Capitata, emerald spreader, "traditional"), Canadian hemlocks, Siberian cypresses, azaleas & rhodies, and where I have more sun various lower mugo pines, spruces, arborvitaes and junipers. Actually, right now, the (confined) periwinkle, low azaleas, and hellebore leaves going up my front walk look almost as fresh as in the spring. In the spring I love watching the flowering shrubs come out, and in the fall those with leaves that turn are gorgeous. Once in a while we get deer here, so I do have roses, hostas and daylilies that sometimes get nibbled on in passing, but so far not destroyed. And interspersed among everything are peonies, coral bells, foamy bells, astilbes, wildflowers, dozens of clematis vines, and some other perennials. But I would never be without the beautiful shrubs! To choose the right plant for the right place, one year I did hourly sun charts once a month for lots of locations from spring to fall, so I'd know where to put what, and researched the plants I liked before buying any. Anne...See More- PRO
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