Attn Color Experts! Seeking suggestions for white paint
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Jennifer Hogan
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Color experts, please help--what color should we paint our house?
Comments (18)Thank you! So much great feedback. Sadly, the paint job is a necessity rather than just aesthetics -- paint on the back side is failing pretty badly & peeling off in layers. (After reading up on the paint forum, I think it was just too many layers of latex on top of old oil paint without adequate prep.) Maybe we will keep it close to current color. I'm not sure what color it is, but I'll have to stop by the BM store and pick up a tab for Briarwood. I think those color visualizers are just a bit off, at least on our monitor -- Down Pour is a very smurf-y blue on my screen. Luckily, SW store is right down the street. Of the SW colors, we liked Mineral Deposit -- gray, but not quite so dark. Johnmari, my wife said exactly that about warm trim looking bad with cool gray field color. I just want to get away from the current ultrawhite, just tone down a bit but not too much. Shutters? I think we will someday, after we've finished the essentials. Of course, being picky, I don't want to just screw aluminum shutters that don't match window size on there, so might be a while given that real shutters & hardware are pricey. The suggestion about doing the sash black is good--that could look really sharp and make the windows pop a bit more until we can dress it up a bit more with shutters. Absolutely agreed on the landscaping solutions. Could be more varied and it would add a lot. THANK YOU for all your suggestions, such a helpful group & nice little corner of the internet....See MoreColor Experts - SW match to BM Simply White
Comments (9)According to encycolorpedia, SW High Reflective White is a close match, followed by Whitetail and then White Flour. You can see other brands and colors here. The "e" number is how different it is from the original...the larger the "e" the less like the original it is....See MoreSeeking Color Suggestions for our Front Door
Comments (9)No shutters there are no windows that can have shutters the right size and IMO all they would do is clutter up the nice simple exterior you have,,.. I do think a fun color for the front door but IMO a new front door in a style that suits the exterior and interior , nor arched glass at all and also no stained glass look a nice simple door to suit the house and then a fun color I love lime green with gray. Then landscaping to really get the curb appeal A much wider walkway and the steps should be the whole width between the posts on the right. I would do wood steps too . Check out foundation plantings for ideas ....See Morehelp with exterior colors - seeking suggestions
Comments (8)Whatever it is, I hope it will be a wood stain and not paint. Even an opaque stain will maintain a more translucent quality and retain more of natural wood texture ..... whereas paint is essentially a plastic film that coats/obscures the material. I actually love the funky weathered wood look of it right now and how the house just melts right into and becomes a part of the landscape.... but tidying it up would be nice too assuming you retain the woodsy look. The greens pictured above will fit in with this same esthetic, esp like Melissa's take on it....See MoreBeth H. :
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