Are you painting to sell or for yourselves to live there?

It looks like the house has stained boards, not paint. Are you switching to paint or do you prefer to stay with stain?

Sage green with white trim would look good with the roof color.

This is a good illustrated article: https://www.houzz.com/magazine/exterior-color-of-the-week-6-ways-with-sage-green-stsetivw-vs~52673277

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IMO start by having all the windows match with the same size trim . I would also remove that bay window it does not suit the house .What is the style you like this appears to be a fairly contemporary house but it needs a plan not just slapping on paint. Right now the patio doors look like the main entry and honestly they do not make sense there . I am being a bit rude since IMO the entry needs to be obvious and now it is dark hole. The garage doors need to have some glass in them too.IMO the house applepie posts and your house are not in any way similar. I went to your idea books but see no exteriors you like so maybe post some here so we get a clue .

Are you happy with the overall look of the house? A paint job on a house this size will be very expensive, so if you’ve ever considered making changes to window and door configurations, now would be the time. Working with an architect would be helpful, I think. If you don’t want to make more significant change, I’d suggest a dark charcoal paint with a lighter trim only at the roof line but not around any windows so that some of the windows fade a bit into the body of the house. The front door can be painted a contrasting color to help identify it. Soften the facade with some good landscaping and something that directs to the front door.

I can see your house in two colors. One darker on the first level and a lighter one on the upper stories. White trim. How about Pashmina on the lower and Edgecomb Gray on the upper? White to match the existing windows. Paint the front door an interesting color like Providence Blue.

I can also see it in two shades of blue. I like Providence Blue with Blue Spruce on the lower section. A yellow or a green like Lily Pad would look good on the front door. White trim.

It looks like the slider and lower level windows were replaced and the trim is fixed and white. It also looks like you are in the north west? I think a dark green with a trim color that minimizes the trim is worth considering! I will post examples. Brb

If a different color the balcony Jack will stand out even more and I like how it kind of Blends cuz it's a big house you could paint the windows all of them white if you want them all to show very good or just leave them as they are with the tone colors of the beige but if you go with us light color like a green or go with the gray color cuz the roof looks like a pink

Stain it brown and trim with Crisp Romaine. This is the same house Flow shows above; a fav of mine.

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Yes, BM Crisp Romaine is the other green in that photo. I love that photo too Decoenthusiaste.

My house has two sage greens similar to first photo:

Any of the greens posted would look great. I don’t think a two-tone (top and bottom) plan would be the best idea.

Thank you everyone for all of your thoughts. It is a home in Vermont and we know it's a bit of a Franken-house (but we love it!) and are hoping to mellow out some of its peculiarities with paint. We just spent a good amount on the interiors so I think our budget is capped right now with just paint, not removing windows or rearranging the front entry, although those are all very good ideas. It seems that there is a consensus that some sort of green would work well here, that is very helpful. I also appreciate the thought that the trim should be some sort of color that minimizes its appearance since there is so much of it, jumbled in different places! This is all happening this summer so I'll post a picture once complete.

And yes, will stick with a stain, but perhaps a "solid" stain

Linzy - The charcoal thought is interesting to paint the house charcoal with the trim also charcoal. Would we need to paint the windows themselves charcoal too, what is your opinion on this charcoal theme with white windows?

No charcoal maybe a hunter green and white

No charcoal. Dull and depressing. Some shade of sage green. White trim. Keep it simple and enhance yard.

I would go with a dark charcoal gray with lighter colored wood trim accents. Black around the windows.

Black with natural wood accents

It does not look bad the way it is except the trim around the windows should be pained a few shades darker than the house - looks like a light green or light tan, but either way, the white window trim need to be painted. I Like the paint color of the house.

I understand your comment about it being a Franken-house but as you are painting focus on lightening up the main entrance and making that your focus first.
If the window trims are vinyl there is not much you can do with paint.

I think it should be a colonial blue with a black trim. I'm not going to give unsolicited advise on what else you should do or not do with your house.

Before anything is done, change out the silly bay window for a larger simple window!

i haven't read any comments, but i think you could easily use two colors of paint here to add interest. i'd go dark, dk grey and green?... with an even darker trim (black), i just see that the two frontal plains have a depth distance that could look cool with two colors being used.

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Before you do anything with either stain or paint, have the house power washed. You will find once that is done, the entire house will look a whole lot different. Personally, once its power washed, I would use a good quality stain on it.

What about painting the top porch (to the right side of the picture) a different color too? Like maybe the color you decide on painting around the windows? Or maybe the color you decide on painting the front door? SUPER CUTE, porch! (& the rest of the house) I like the uniqueness of it!! (Good luck with deciding! And DEFINITELY good luck with painting!!! THAT will be A JOB!)

Although I do like the green house shown by decoenthousiast above, I just don't see it for this particular house. The green house has more detail (windows with detail, lots of railings and trellis) and the siding is shingles giving the walls texture and different tones of brown. So I'm showing the house in grey & white below with black doors.

Not a great rendering, but this give you an idea of what your house would look like darker. The bottom show it with contrasting trim vs same color trim.

You don't want to go too dark, and if your near the trees you need a pop of color unless your trying to hide your house. Stay away from the greens if your near the trees

Hi Elke. I agree with the commenters that suggested a darker stain on the siding with the green (Tarrytown Green, Rookwood Dark Green or Crisp Romaine) around the trim, fascia and windows. It appears the trim style around the windows on the ground level match the trim style around the windows on the second, third & fourth levels. Paint the window trim all the same color. Same for the third floor railing, support posts and door and the trim around the garage doors. Then to highlight the main entrance, lighten up the alcove (paint ceiling and two side walls a much lighter shade, perhaps even a creamy/off white) and use a complementary or contrasting color on the main entrance door.

I had made up an idea board with the green colors from the suggestions above as well as coordinating accent colors and I can't get it to attach, link or copy/paste into this post. Ugh! If you're interested perhaps we can figure out another way to get it to you.

I would have a glade green roof and coffee tan exterior walls with chocolate brown trim. This would help the home integrate well with the earth tones of the landscape. The garage and front doors should be finished (oak stain and deep gloss varnish) in a natural honey oak.

In the picture, the area under the 3rd gable from the right appears to be an off-center front door. If so----

Create a natural wood facade around a double front door with frosted side lights. This front door facade would be centered and aligned with it's gable above - not off center. It should be of the same dimensions and honey oak stain and varnish finish as the garage doors and stained of the same oak to give the front entrance subtle drama. hide or minimize the quirky little window just to the left of the entrance.

By matching the garage doors with an entrance of the same rich oak, it will look deliberate, aligned with the other elements, distinctive and less Frankenhaus. One might want oak corbels, appearing to support the roof, to give the look of a Bavarian lodge transposed to Vermont.

The walk to the front door should be separate from the driveway loading area, ornate with flowers or low shrubs and joining to the main drive in front of the house - to designate the main entrance. The entrance would be defined with slender Italian cedar (glade green to highlight the roof) ending just in front of the frosted sidelights. The driveway itself, should be stained dark finished concrete and bordered with stone curbing. The darker concrete may be just warm enough to melt the snow as it falls. I have done this with a south facing drive in Connecticut and it helped to diminish the snow.

The apparent sliding glass doors to the viewers left of the entrance appear to be just below grade and an invitation to water intrusion. They appear to be "plugged in" - as if to replace an original garage door. They should be replaced with windows of like dimensions and finish as the other windows. landscape the front to the same grade.

The home is in the woods and should look like part of it's surroundings.

I think the gray with black trim is s more current style or trend but would be great for this house.
This house has many windows that aren’t centered and a mix or styles. White trim would accentuate the windows. The gray with black will make them disappear.

Pictures from my last post