Check out Duron's Colors of Historic Charleston and Carolina Low Country Collection. Duron is owned by Sherwin Williams, so all the colors are available even though they don't carry the color cards in house. SW will match BM colors too. BM has some historic color collections. Buyaurapaint.com has a comprehensive listing of their colors. If you click on the color it will show you the LRV Light Reflective Value rating and sometimes tell you whether the color has a warm or a cool undertone. I have found this immensely helpful. Lastly, check out Lowes if you have one in your area. Their Valspar line has National Trust Historic Paint color palettes. I'll post the link below. If you find something you like, you can get SW to match it for you. A tip about Sherwin Williams. Go when it's not busy, typically a weekday after 10 am. The pros are all in there first thing in the morning. It might not be the right time to get someone to work on matching a sample. I've gone in in the mid morning or early afternoon and find that I have the sales person's undivided attention and get the match I'm looking for. BTW, two SW off whites I like are Westhighland White SW7566 (lighter) and Restful White 7563. Dover White 6385 is also pretty, but a bit yellow-er. Other sites: oldhousecolors.com http://www.oldhouseweb.com/suppliers/paints-and-sundries/historic-paint-colors/ Sorry to lob so much info your way. I hope it helps! Kathe Here is a link that might be useful: National Trust Historic Paint Colors

wow I think I liked all the answers lol because I loved reading each one (Lars I laughed when you said in CA everything more than 30 years old is historic..very true for OC ..we live in a ranch built in late sixties/or 1970-can never figure out what year exactly it was)..and already feels like historic-people added and changed and landscaped during years, and houses that were essentially tract homes, even though very desirable ones back then, all look different after 50-60 years..the lots are much bigger, and we have no HOA..)) and it's right in the heart of the city. It's where the city started. yeah we did gut remodel. Didn't have to. But it had asbestos. And some of it was disturbed. and we wanted an addition. So nightmare. Well I mean a construction type one. Not the worst type of nightmares lets be honest. But now I really like living in something you now,,older. Even though comparatively to other, really old houses, its age is laughably young actually My sister lived in 1905 Victorian in MA, and now lives in another Victorian, 1901..I'm not sure whether it's historic because that's what the pool of houses there is...if everything is approximately the same age, is it historic? I grew up in one of the very old cities..celebrated 1500 years when I was a little girl..I grew up in a very old house(actually apartment building) right in the very middle, the windows faced the Central square..was probably built in 19 th century? I know they (the city) remiodeled it completely after I was born..they put families in temporary apartments for a year or two that it takes then bring them back. So I spent couple years in some little white one story house that somehow stayed from some other times, actually almost on the same street. But I don't remember it. I knew the house though. It was on the way to my daycare and I liked how it's one storey in the middle of the big city and has a little garden around, and was shocked when my Mom told me we actually lived there for a bit when I was a baby. Interestingly enough my house now is in different hemisphere but is one storey and white and has a garden..)) I love old houses. Yes it came with all sorts of problems, even after they remodeled. But to live there, in the center, in the building with character and details, and higher ceilings, and just to feel the pulse of the city like its your own..I now realize how cool it was. Then I was envious of my cousins who lived in very non descript new buildings in far newer neighborhood and I had to take subway then tram to get there..later also trolley when we moved a bit further..but-they had a real forest nearby! And if you go long enough you get to a lake. (We had a big river crossing city in half..the right part was an old one..the left, was new) And they had so many kids playing around since so many long, long buildings full of apartments and families. It was always an adventure to go there And my cousins loved to come to us:) The most famous city's park was 5 min walk from us and it was on a big hill, with levels and all, so then, to us, seemed indefinite, with the corners to explore allover..and one could see our big big river from there..the river they decided to build the city on those 1500 years ago Truth is everything is an adventure until truly horrible. Especially when one is a kid and mundane things are not mundane one bit yet. So..what was the question? lol. yeah. I lived in a historic house.

We built a home modeled after this historic home in our downtown. We have now decided against shutters and are looking for help with trim options/paint color. We were considering a light green with white columns and white trim around windows. i've seen some pictures now of a gray house with red board and batten garage and I am intrigued. We are using hardie and probably SW but could go with any paint. Any suggestions would be fantastic! Thanks in advance!

We were out kayaking today south of you on the Gulf Coast. The waterfront house that caught my eye was the one painted a lovely light pink with white trim and a charcoal roof.