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Exterior House color poll and Photoshop request

last year

We are potentially having a 24x24 cape style garage addition added to our home on the opposite side of the sunroom/deck. Would anyone be able to add that addition on in photoshop? There is a home down the street that has a similar layout/style that we modeled it after. I have included the photo.

We also will be in a situation where the vinyl colors of the front of the house and garage addition will no longer match when we add the garage due to sun fading etc. Our contractor has recommended switching out the front (which we aren't in love with the color) while we are doing the reno. Three sides of our home are already gray in the shingle style. I was contemplating swapping the front yellow color for gray. Please let me know your vote!

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House with garage that we are modeling the potential addition after:

White House Option 1:

Option 2: Gray with red door

Option 3:

Gray with blue door

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Patricia Colwell Consulting
last year
Get an architect ASAP to add this addition not your contractor . Do you mean the addition will be on the left. Any addition needs to be designed to look like it was always there not just tacked on and BTW those double windows should never have shutters
kandrewspa
last year
You probably don't want your house to look exactly like your neighbors, so I vote for a gray that is slightly darker than theirs and a blue front door. I think white houses are boring, but if that's the color you like best there is nothing wrong with it. :-) White is a classic color for a cape. But while you're redoing the front you can get rid of the shutters as Patricia said. If you have any money left after doing the addition, put on a real front porch/portico and invest in landscaping.

Especially if the addition is going to have living space over it and connect to the existing space it is important to engage an architect. Contractors just build what they're told to build and most of them don't have an artistic sensibility. At least yours told you about the color issue and is having you think about it up front.
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