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Help with new house colors!

10 years ago
We need new house colors! We just purchased this home and I'm thinking Parsnip with Langdon Dove trim from the Historic Collection. The roof is a newer 40 year roof, so it's not going to change and I will leave the brick as is. Does anyone have suggestions for easy color software/websites?

I would also love to hear ideas for a front pergola... Sadly this house is not the mid century modern that I love, but any ideas to help modernize would be appreciated.

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  • 10 years ago

    I would suggest painting the white garage door and other white areas gray.

  • 10 years ago
    Any specific grey? Light or dark?
  • 10 years ago
    Gray isn't my go to, I'm leaning toward warmer tones. This has been my go to inspiration, but they were custom colors that the designer/builder doesn't know the name of as the owners chose them.

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  • 10 years ago
    Warm Greys?
  • 10 years ago

    I know everyone is too much into gray right now! I only suggested it because of the color of your stone. It is a light gray right?

    I love the taupe better as well. Check out Grant Beige HC 83 or Sandy Hook Gray HC 108- more taupe but I don't see how that would work with the color of your stone..........


  • 10 years ago
    Here is a closer look. You might be right about the warmer beiges. I think I will have to stick to "grieges." Here is closer look.
  • 10 years ago

    How about changing the white to khaki and painting the door olive green? Or the door could be a dark red....not lipstick red.

  • 10 years ago

    Your closer picture popped up after I posted......I do not think that gray goes with your stone. You were right about the warmer colors.

  • 10 years ago
    Sherman Williams just identified the colors in my inspiration photo as "Functional Gray" and "Requisite Gray" so I guess it's gray! I like the Rex for Khaki too... The door will definitely get a punch of color too.
  • 10 years ago

    Here is what I've come up with in the BM color visualizer so far.

  • 10 years ago
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    I like the colors you come up with especially given the narrow range of options available given the specific brick blend and your red roof. But I think a new wood door and matching garage door in dark/med brown tones would be a really fantastic upgrade here.

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  • 10 years ago
    I would reconsider the BM visualizer choices. I think they are all too dark - no contrast is a bad thing.

    Use the deepest color in the brick for the White areas, and I think a deeper Grey is a good choice, even in the cool tones. Repaint the trim in a much lighter off white to make the outlines of the house pop.

    All the best in your new home.
  • 10 years ago

    Yikes! The original picture looks totally different than the latest shots!!!!! I think we are all in agreement to leave the grays behind!!

    Are you able to show us Thicket AF 405 - it is a sage green. Or check out Hamilton Blue which is a deeper slate blue. Or even Montana Agate or Fresh Clay which both resemble the roof color - might be interesting.

  • 10 years ago
    Rusty Empire - you are right in about the wood door. I just added a color to fill in the current white. Now that I've got the hang of the visualizer tool I will play around. All of the grays looked way off when I tried them. Thanks for the help everyone. It's an interesting process for sure.
  • 10 years ago

    You will find the colors are just not 100% accurate in translation but good for a general idea. I would get a few test pots done up just in case - always test first before committing to gallons!

  • 10 years ago
    I'm the test quart queen, my house will look like a quilt patch when Im done color testing.
  • 10 years ago
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    Hi there - this has so much potential. May I suggest that the gables and roof mean that you are going to get the best result if you emphasize some more traditional exterior features for scale purposes. From a distance, in the first photo and in the close up of the brick, there is a greige in your brick (the mid tone) or the warm gray that the brick reads from a distance are going to do a lot for you - a lighter tone but darker than white .. and in the gable, we need to add some elements to help bring the scale down.

    So - test this shade for all your siding http://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/paint-color/plymouthrock

    and use the off white as your white trim - london fog http://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/paint-color/londonfog

    Use this on the double gable that has siding over the front door . . the trim light tone there will help balance the house by emphasizing that gable and de-emphasizing the dormer . . necessary . .

    May I suggest in the dormer gable that you add a slatted trimmed out shelf on three or four evenly spaced corbels under the window . . a shelf is not as much maintenance as a window box . . you can drop it just 8" below the sill so you can add a box seasonally . . but visually, it is going to lengthen the window which because of the dormer comes out seeming high on the dormer wall ..

    Paint the garage door the siding color rather than the trim color - deeper so it hides .. and picking a color that will hide in / seem perfect surrounded by brick . .

    I would suggest a mossy green door . . http://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/paint-color/piningforyou

    but one that matched the roof tonally (terracotta red) would also be fine .. test http://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/paint-color/terracottatile 

    The house does need a punctuation mark and the door is the right spot for it .. .you could go to a deep mustard / dijon tone . . http://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/paint-color/turmeric

  • 10 years ago
    I will give all of that a try tomorrow, this girl is off to bed!
  • 10 years ago

    ps - can't see a pergola advancing the front elevation . . What would be nice is a trough planter with a columnar evergreen or vining trellis to vertically sort of fill in the gap between the garage and the brick post to the left of the front door . .