Help us pick an exterior paint color!
We're in a 1980s contemporary. When we bought it, it was painted "Navajo White," which reads yellow, with a light green trim. It has a cedar colored roof (it's in great shape, not replacing), though the roof does it make more challenging to pick colors. Had to go with an "early spring uglies" photo as pictures with green grass/trees, were throwing off the color visualizer hues.
I've gone back and forth about the garage door - sometimes I think it looks best to paint it the color of the siding, and other times I like it best when it's painted the color of the trim.
Here are our color options:
Fairview Taupe:
Bear Creek:
Arroyo Red with Bittersweet Garage Door:
Arroyo Red with Arroyo Red Garage Door:
Med. Olive with Bittersweet Garage Door
Med Olive with Med Olive Garage Door and tea front door
Hale Navy
Blacktop (though worried about fading on a super dark color) and this would involve painting all our windows, right? Can you have black siding and brown windows? What do you do with a brown deck? Not sure the visualizer is portraying the color correctly - it seems significantly lighter than the digital chip.
So what would you do?
Comments (10)
cat_ky
3 years agolindentree27
3 years agoI'd love for the exterior to shift towards something more modern - our interior is very much a mid-century vibe, -- I'm thinking that a really dark paint would help push the 80s into a more modern setting. I'm ok with my house looking smaller -- don't mind that aspect at all, especially since the back is more expansive, but maybe a dark color isn't the way to go.
(Here's the rear in Fairview Taupe - deck color would have to change):
Here's Fairview Taupe with "Rustique" Front Door
Here's Fairview Taupe with a Redrock Front Door
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