I just painted my home and used Swiss coffee on the stucco, and this DE platinum color on the fascia, and the wrought iron on the trim

impossible to get good pics because the sun is always behind the house

you can see the darker trim here,

and this fascia has the lighter gray against the roof.

however, the swiss coffee looks like a nice bright white once on the home.

have you thought about doing patina green colors for accent?

Thanks for the quick reply and photos, Beth! Beautiful home (and landscaping!). I will check out each of these options, as they look great in combination on your home. We do have an orange tile roof, which hasn't been working as well with richer/patina-ed greens, thus our leaning towards the more washed out Sagebrush. We really love the green that is presently on the house as trim and accent (Benjamin Moore HC-50), though, and it may wind up we stick with it... but there is a definite desire to change things up if we can.

yes, the gray tones are hard to work w/those tiles. I just had a complete reroof during the paint change. The entire neighborhood (I'm in North OC) has those heavy pink/terra cotta cement tiles. but they've faded after 40 years. I couldn't wait to get something diff.

If you want to remain period to your home, stick w/the white/yellows for the stucco, and the greens/blues or even black for the trim.

have you thought about doing black? It's very handsome

this is a creamier white w/more of a dark bronze trim

blue or green always works

I did find one with a dark charcoal gray and a swiss coffee stucco. this color gray would work. You need a true gray with no blue or yellow undertones.

this is a 1930's in Los Feliz

I still like the black though

i'm jelly of your home. vintage spanish are my favorites. I'd love to redo one.

(you in the highland park/echo park/ lincoln hts area?)

Thanks! You nailed it -- NE LA for sure! Yeah, we've struggled a bit with period v contemporary. I was all for sticking strictly to period, but we kept testing the "typical" colors (creamy whites for body, weathered browns and similar for trim) and nothing quite felt right. We've realized that our eyes are searching for a more "modern" color palette... but we don't want to fight the architecture either. Black is definitely a good idea here to bridge both.

thee,,,worked 32 years in and around LA. I knew you were up in the hills !

see if you can try a sample portion w/the black. And if you can, bring in the spanish tiles around the exterior. (saltillo or the talavera tiles)

Just how orange are your roof tiles? I wouldn't want black to bring out the Halloween in your home. You could play it up with colors like these. Some links are not working tonight.

https://www.houzz.com/photos/105-kirkland-residence-modern-exterior-seattle-phvw-vp~2596668

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Or tone it down with this.

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deco, they aren't orange. they look like all of the photos I posted in my comment. more of a terra cotta/ saltillo tile color. black is gorgeous with them and the white

I love a teal/turquoise type of color on a SoCal Spanish house. I feel like the current trend is to go very modern with these homes - stark white stucco, black trim, etc, and deemphasizing the Spanish tile (often multi colored and rather flamboyant) that this houses often have - but I personally think a teal-ish color gives it a lot more character and vivacity.