Paint and roof colors? 1977 mountain house
We recently bought this house, built 1977. It's on the side of a mountain, elevation 8500 feet / 2500 meters. In the winter, we get about 12 feet of snow, and summer looks like this.
The neighborhood is pastoral and mostly '70s vintage, but several are being torn down to build highly contemporary houses with glass walls, weathered zinc cladding, and cedar shiplap siding. Many others have been redone with standing seam roofs.
The original cedar shingle roof needs to be replaced, and fire codes prohibit wood shingles now. Our roofer recommends a standing seam metal roof in CMG Hartford green. (full color chart)
This roof allows us to do the contemporary stark white/black look, but most nearby houses tone it down a bit. We need to repaint but aren't ready to fully reclad the house (too disturbing to the tenants).
I'm looking at BM Mascarpone as a primary color choice that is not too white but not too pastel or yellow.
QUESTION: What would you think of this color scheme? Any recommendation of different paint? And trim colors?
Here are two nearby houses that were redone in the past 3 years and look similar - but in different subdivisions.
HOUSE 1: This cottage-style house has a warm creamy exterior paint with a cool bluish trim. Both fade to almost white in strong sun but are clearly not white. The photo here dials-up the saturation.
HOUSE 2: This house is a bit austere with the black trim, but the white is actually a natural stone (limestone?) that can have a yellow glow. I want to put in a switchable glass door on our house that would look similar to this, allowing the eye to see straight through to the trees behind.
Thanks much, XYZ
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decoenthusiaste
3 years agoI think the Classic Green would work better with your windows, if that is a consideration. If you cn repaint your windows, you might consider the teal and try this color combo. This is a lakehouse, but I think the colors would work well in a mountain setting. This teal is BM Crisp Romaine.
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3 years agoI am not such a fun of green roofs...But it looks not bad
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Marylee H
3 years agoHi - what a beautiful home!
Have a look at the colorographies at The Land of Color .com to compare key attributes of many popular white colours.
Mascarpone is a very light, quite colourful off-white. As an exterior colour in bright light, it may appear lighter still again. Perhaps surprisingly you may find you can afford to go slightly darker than you imagine for the exterior, to mitigate that.
Bright sunshine can also bleach out the appearance of colour, so Mascarpone’s quite high Chroma (colourfulness), may help to maintain an appearance of colour in those conditions.
How much colour you can enjoy before it appears positively yellow to you, is a combination of the effect of light upon it and your own personal aesthetic pleasure.Viewing a sample outside in situ will help.
Here’s another colour similar in Chroma, but slightly darker. It maybe helpful to view both. You still may prefer the lighter one, but try and think what bright sun & snow reflection will do to it too.
Not an ideal way to do it, but measuring the colour from a photograph of the lovely roof colour it appears to belong to Blue-Green Hue Family. Helpful to know when building up your exterior palette.
Marylee H
3 years agoP.s. Am not suggesting you use these, but just to illustrate how much daylight can lighten & desaturate colours. So as you narrow a shortlist, painting large sample boards to view outside against the house, may really help filter your choices.
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