My Green Exterior house paint turned out too Bright…! Help!
Roz M
2 years ago
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Painting my house lavender...but it turned out more mauve.
Comments (18)Thank you everyone for the advice. I went back to Sherwin Williams and played with 1 gallon of paint some more. Made it more blue and more purple...less mauve. Got it home and painted the section between the window where I had my "test" shutter and the front door. Put the shutter back up and realized that I didn't like it. It just looked cold and turned grey, but not a good grey. So, we stuck with the mauvish color. With the 2nd coat is was a little bit more muted. We got the shutters/windowboxes etc. back up and it looks pretty good. I think the mauve is still a bit too pink and the shutters could use to be a bit darker (but hubby said no-way to repainting those this year.) But it looks cottagey and inviting to me and that was my goal. The cream that I had before wasn't bad. I might have kept it if it had not been for the school bus yellow house directly next door. My cream just looked like a washed out version of the yellow. I would have liked to have painted my house a light, warm yellow but that obviously wouldn't have worked with bright yellow next door. I'll be posting some pictures as soon as I can get them off the digi cam. For those of you who wondered my colors are all Sherwin Williams. The shutters are Exclusive Plum and the siding is Intuitive....See MoreNeed help with exterior paint...thinking green but not too green!
Comments (1)Maybe you already have the perfect color on the siding and only need to change the colors of the trim. Sage green shutters and a red front door, with the red tilting towards orange, not blue so that it blends with the yellow-brown of the bricks. OR, Maybe a shade of gray for the siding that tilts toward brown, which I guess would be a taupe color....See MoreMy turn to paint the exterior
Comments (34)This has been fun to watch! What a sweetie moonshadow is and I like that Potting Shed color, too. Can I throw out a suggestion that is unrelated to anything you've been asking? If the answer is no - STOP READING! Something that strikes me about your house is the big expanse of white with the garage doors. I don't mind the look at all and in fact, think the detail and mass of the rails and styles on the door itself and the trim around the door are what makes it look great. That said, (ducking here...) the trim on the rest of the house looks skimpy in comparison. Any chance at all (and now whispering...) that you'd be up for other changes before you paint?.... like beefing up the window and door trim and maybe the posts on the porch at the same time? Your house already has a lot of charm - with the new color and some moderate trim changes - ooh la la!...See MoreExterior paint color help for new house - bright and cheerful
Comments (21)Is this the look you want? Lots of pictures with the color combo you are looking at on colonials. https://www.google.com/search?q=white+colonial+black+shutters+red+door&client=firefox-b-1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj6hPzY9_bbAhVMS60KHYbtBuIQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1536&bih=729 As for the white color to pick - I think you'll find a bright white is too white when outside. Otherwise most paint manufactures have one called Bright White or something very close to it. Realize that where you live, the surroundings, the light etc. will be influencing how the color looks too....See MoreCelery. Visualization, Rendering images
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