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Trim Color Help - Hamilton Blue shed please!

2 years ago

Please help pick color for window trim + accent on not-yet-figured-out big doors. BM HC 191 is more green than expected!? Roof is silver gray metal. Opaline OC-33? White Dove OC-17? Too safe? Thks!

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HALLETT & Co.

2 years ago

Does this need to relate to any other structures? Site looks pretty wooded so all dark would help it recede. I find white and off white harsh in natural settings. The current green is going on everything except the doors?

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Tara
2 years ago
How about a tan color?
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Sea Magnolia
Original Author
2 years ago
Yes the Hamilton Blue (green!?) was meant to go on all — and we want it to recede — It is in thin woods, is visible from the road and is still a surprise to the neighbors. Kinda stands alone but someone is building behind. Finally staining to protect after 5 years! It’s a working shed - not a house or she-shed (I wish!!) — so I am afraid to be too fancy and multicolored. Hmmm. I am so color-challenged. Pathetic! Ben Moore site says Manchester Tan HC-81. Afraid would look dirty. Can one mix tan with gray (roof?). Going to be nicer than the house. Thank you!!
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HALLETT & Co.
2 years ago
Five years and the siding still looks that good? Wow!
barncatz
2 years ago
last modified: 2 years ago
Found this palette, but I'd probably just lighten up the Hamilton blue and use that for the windows. I'd leave the door Hamilton blue and not try to accent it.
calidesign
2 years ago
If it was a house than white trim would look great with that color. But for a shed, I think you would want it to blend in with the surroundings. I'd paint the walls and trim all the same dark color.
Sea Magnolia
Original Author
2 years ago
@HALLETT & Co. and ALL 😃 - No. It had to be cleaned and revived to look like that. 🤷🏼‍♀️😁 It had weathered… I was loving it being weathered, too. But truly it was moldy and looking forlorn. It needs this drink and a protective skin. Long past time to get it together and give it a “new new” start. 😉 Doubtful but I hope it’s there in a 100 years. You folks have been enormously helpful. Thank you sooo much! Excited for discussion with husband and to make a decision.😅Will post. Very grateful! Thank you, thank you - all! Yay.
Sea Magnolia
Original Author
2 years ago
I tried Briarwood…
Sea Magnolia
Original Author
2 years ago
But it felt too much like a regular house.
Sea Magnolia
Original Author
2 years ago
I didn’t see what was right in front of us! The painter had pulled the windows out and left them out for so long that when the Briarwood trim was a surprise. We had grown so accustomed to the dark voids… can you folks were suggesting dark also so… We decided to go for it. Black it is.
Sea Magnolia
Original Author
2 years ago
I meant to say “And you folks suggested dark…” turned out there was a Benjamin Moore chit that showed Hamilton Blue with Black (HC-190. Aura Exterior Low Lustre). Right in front of my nose, but I don’t think I’d have seen it without y’alls’ help. I am excited for the doors to be designed and installed, but that last part will have to until next year now. :-((. It’s time to migrate south. ;-)) THANKS again for all your input. It was huge. TBC in ‘22!

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