Hey congratulations! Could you give us an idea of your region and colors your neighbors are using or what you like?

Your house has lots of potential! What do you think of this combo? White trim, tan house, brown shutters.

Dark brown, white trim, black shutters

Blue with white trim and white shutters

How about a nice crisp white with black shutters?

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There was just a thread on green houses which looked beautiful : ) .

Can all the trim around the windows be painted? I could see a sage green (it's probably out-of-fashion now. I dunno! But it's nice.) with all white trim. Maybe black-green shutters? You might not need shutters once you get stuff growing.

This house would go so well with a cottage style garden. I hope you are documenting your progress. :)

Groveraxle, that looks nice. Clean and simple. Great backdrop for a flower garden.

Grover’s rendering + a garden. Perfect. ( can you post a pic which includes the front door? A color for that might be nice.)

voting for the dark brown with white trim and black shutters...and congratulations on your new house! You will never be bored :) as there is always a project to be done!!!

I lived in South Georgia and we had a light tan house that we changed to dark blue. I never noticed a difference in the inside temperature. It looks like you have some nice shade trees too.

White would look great but I like how a clean darker color on a house can add presence and instant curb appeal. If you want lots of flowers in front they will show up better against a white house.

I would do something like this.

EXCEPT...

I would do the body in Behr Lima Green

White Trim on window surrounds and trim.

And, Behr Chicory Root for the door, posts and shutters.

The green is a happy green and goes well with surrounding vegetation and knew plantings.

The white will make it all pop.

D_gw, the second house you posted has been a favorite of mine for years. I may still have the magazine it was featured in, somewhere. The inside is as charming as the outside, but what the angle of the photo doesn't show is the two-story addition in back. If I recall, it's in San Diego, but would look perfect almost anywhere (except maybe the desert).

Devon, congratulations on your new house! It's going to be charming!

bpathome - Here is one of my favorites from a town where I used to live and it's very similar to your favorite : ) The homeowner picked the color scheme back when turquoise and brown were popular but it still works because the house is in a beach town.

This roof is Gray? Sorry, I missed the part where you may have said there was a new different roof. Are you sure it doesn't just look gray in dirty parts when the sun is down?

Please ignore the attempt at landscape. I don't have time to do it properly. If you don't like this it's all good because you can at least eliminate colors you don't want. I didn't finish the right side as it doesn't show in your photo. Could you beef up the porch posts a bit?

I don't think I got the door area right. Couldn't really tell if that bit I was seeing was a door or part of a shutter. You will just have to use your imagination on that part.