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House Color Combinations – Exterior House Painting Ideas
House Color Combinations – Exterior House Painting Ideas
House color combinations coordinate your entire exterior color palette. It’s not just enough to pick a color for your house you need to make an entire color scheme. You need to pick several coordinating shades. For the exterior of your house you’ll need colors for the main paint, garage door, shutters, front door, concrete, trim and roof.
The color combination of your house can compliment the overall style of your home. For an updated Victorian pair gray and taupe with pale lavender accents to show off the architecture. For a modern home use the idea of a pop of color. If your home is on several different levels and lacks architectural details paint each story a different color. You can even use a daring color scheme of taupes, golds and oranges; just make sure that your neighbors won’t complain. You should consider the area of your home when choosing a house color combination.
Your home can stand out but it should still blend in with the scenery instead of detracting from the view. Clay tones are at home in the southwest while stone colors work in rocky landscapes. Use a traditional bright white and blue scheme for a coastal home. You can change up the color of your front door to show that you have personality. Bolder hues can make striking accents. To spice up a neutral house try putting magenta Adirondack chairs on the porch or paint your shutters turquoise. This way you’ll easily be able to distinguish your house in the neighborhood but check with your homeowner’s association first. Darker shade should be used sparingly on an exterior. Look for sands, creams, sages or yellow to serve as the main base of your home.
When making a house color combination start with the feature you love the most. This could be a tile roof, stone pathway or white picket fence. Choose tones that compliment your favorite item to make it stand out. You may want to paint the focal point a brighter or darker pigment and keep the rest of the house a neutral color. If all the other hues in the neighborhood are neutral reverse the color scheme. If they have taupe siding and a green chroma trim try green siding and a taupe trim. Even using taupe trim on a white house keeps with tradition but is different than what you’ll see in the rest of the neighborhood.
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Question by Angelique: Yellow Victorian house – paint question?
My friend has asked me to help her pick colors for her very large Victorian home. The painters have just finished painting it a pale yellow with white trim. But she doesn’t know what colors for the shutters and doors. Now this would be easy if her taste was traditional, but she wants her house to look like “a birthday cake” as she puts it – with pastel colors. Inside its all pastel shabby chic. I can’t even picture it, but she likes the idea of lavender doors (yikes!) — any ideas for the shutters (which are now white) if she goes with lavender doors? Or any ideas at all???
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http://sherlink.sherwin.com/swapp/color_visualizer/ chose paint an exterior and explore color.
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BenjaminMoore.com has a Personal Color Viewer with a victorian house exterior you can play around with. (no shutters; you’ll have to use your imagination with accent).
Doesn’t look too bad with the following: Body: Sun City, Trim: Buttermilk, Door: Victorian Purple, Accent: Water Drops
(pastel bluish green). http://www.benjaminmoore.com/bmpsweb/portals/bmps.portal?_nfpb=true&_windowLabel=portletInstance_2&portletInstance_2_actionOverride=%2Fbm%2Fcms%2FContentRenderer%2FrenderContent&portletInstance_2currentNodeUUID=%2FBEA+Repository%2F5612&portletInstance_2NodeUUID=%2FBEA+Repository%2F30001&_pageLabel=fh_home
She could always do deep mauve on the shutters to not add a fourth tone.
Brilliant white would be unknown to Victorians, so the kind of off-whites are actually right on the money. They loved to mix combinations of tertiary colours – olives, drabs and so, and schemes based on complementaries – orange and heliotrope, or as your friend is steering towards yellow and purple.
If she has her heart set on lavender for the door what about a periwinkle-ish hue for the shutters? Or use the lavender a shade lighter or darker for the accents.