Cream siding with brown shutters. I would think about beefing up those front porch posts as well;)

Hi Adwelle. The roof is manufactured by Mueller and is made out of a steel alloy. The copper color is the tint they put on its during manufacture and does not fade or patina. I’ve been told by the neighbors that the roof was installed over 10 years ago.

I second Margo's comments! Additionally, I would change the front door trim to match the window trim.

Please rethink the shutters. You can't fit them on every window. Maybe planted window boxes will work better for your house. http://life.nationalpost.com/2011/06/17/mike-holmes-shut-the-door-on-decorative-shutters/

A darker or lighter color would show the roof off. I would like a dark brown with red, green or blue on the window casements and very light taupe on beefed up posts.

Examples: and

This house has red casements, which it is very subtle:

As for the shutters, only two of the windows are candidates. I wouldn't put any on the picture window or the smaller window.

A perennial garden in front of the porch, on both sides of the walk-way and some vertical shrubs framing the windows on the right and left of the house would also add interest, as well as, variegated and reddish foliage.

Love that roof! I also think cream or light tan / gray would work nicely. Maybe bring the brick element down also with porch posts?

I have a great solution for you. I would download the Color 911 app. You can create your own palette of colors, or find a color theme already in the app that you like. Look specifically for a color themes that has a color similar to your roof. From there you can see all of the beautiful colors that go with it. It is an incredible tool and is great with finding the perfect colors! Color911.com

Hi Amy. Thank you for the advice. I see you are also the developer of Color911. Does the application work on the PC, or is it an iphone/ipad only app?

It is for the iOS devices, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. I hope you have the chance to check it out. I have received countless emails from homeowners and designers alike who are really enjoying it! Thanks for asking.

I downloaded Color 911 at your suggestion and don't like it at all. You have to pay for the app, then pay for the palettes individually. Very expensive. The color registry using the phone camera isn't as sensitive as it needs to be. When I shot a large sample of carpet, it was unable to recognize the blue undertone, and it didn't register the color at all on a smaller paint chip.

Yep- Amy Wax it is time to lay low- you are like a bot-popping up on any post mentioning color. Go get a snack and a nap ;P

I have seen yellow done with a copper roof and it was bad, just a trim color but they promptly repainted. Since natural copper does patina, I would go with a light bluish grey and then pick the copper back up again by using shutters, flower boxes or chairs (whatever your style is) in a dark rust that is darker than the roof. You want to bring the eye back down to the house instead of the roof, but by using the rust on the house you with not end up with splitting it into a top vs bottom view.

Just paint is the only option? I would use Shakes stains really any choice of yours the texture balances the copper. Add a bit of stone accent some where which pull the color of copper in , a grey " mink" if you paint and then add a stone or gravel walk or patio. Some trim on window trim antique gold or pale yellow front door natural wood or deep rich color . Mink is a superb dark grey that has a a wonderful finish at Lowes some
Ideas for you but not a light paint as it will cheapen the look of you home

When are people going to finally get it that NO color app or program works. It is impossible to really see what your house is going to look like on a computer. This is just the cold hard facts, sorry.
For starters color changes at scale so the color chip you are looking at will not look anything like that when there are 2000 sq ft of it up. Second, we are taking about totally different systems of color. Paint is reflective color. Computers use light sourced color and printing adds a third completely different system of color.
I have over 30 years of experience and thousands of houses to back this up. The only way you can see what a color is going to look like on a house is to sample in sufficient size, trimmed with the trim color you are going to use and then the existing color blocked off so it doesn't impact how you see the color.
I'm sorry if this sounds rude but I just keep hearing all this baloney from people who have a vested interest in some system or program from the paint companies to the app makers. It is all Hooey.

I think a sage- y green with creamy yellow trim and dark brown shutters (board and batten, only on outside windows) and porch
Check these colors:
Siding:
Benjamin Moore #472 aganthus green
Trim:
B. Moore #211 fresh air
Shutters and porch:
B. Moore #1231 wynwood

These colors would be great with your beautiful cooper roof.
Good luck!

While The Color People is 100% correct, I like the idea that you can narrow your choices down. Always get the chips, then samples and do a sample board, if there is any question about the color.

I found a metal roof with a copper tone for you to look at:

Here are the colors that deedee suggested:

Hi Bryan, The roof is spectacular, having that much color on the house takes away from the roof. My suggestion
would be to paint the body and the trim one color, maybe BM Berkshire Beige. What is needed is to balance the
windows with some landscaping, tall trees on the left working toward the door with flowers. The front door needs
to be glass, and as tall as possible, with a charcoal trim, the overhang diminishes the height. If there is a way to enlarge the windows for a better balance, that might help. Matilda Bos design studio

Something like Benjamin Moore's Artisan Color Series (interior) might be nice.
http://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/for-your-home/artisan
Pittsfield buff or Moneterey white for the siding. Sea haze, satchel, and silhouette as accent colors

Thank you Color People. I've been playing all weekend with different colors for my kitchen and living room and have decided to give up until I get there and see how the rooms look with the sun coming in the windows, tiles and my furniture.

Unless you use a strong color for the house, the roof will become a focal point - is that your desire? If not, suggest Pittsburgh Paint 451-5 Smoke Blue...accent as much as possible with bright red flowers in containers to draw the eye away from the picture window, such as geraniums. Consider an ivory color treatment for the front door.

a grayed taupe

White with light blue shutters and wood door

And chunkier posts

Gun-metal gray

Like the house color in this link would look real sharp...but beef up your landscaping, more hard-scape. https://www.houzz.com/magazine/15-ways-to-make-your-neighborhood-better-stsetivw-vs~12798308

W/o knowing the part of the country I think speculating about color won't be as effective...
landscaping also depends on local climate/soil so suggestions for plants won't work necessarily...
remember the color wheel--
you can either choose colors opposite on the color wheel or those along side...
use LARGE pieces of foam board to paint samples on and move them to various sides of the house in different light conditions...
and look at them from farther back than you might think...

a house is a large object and can best be observed at distance vs at arms' length...

If you are in the Southwest/TX area I think one type of stone/brick cladding would be more appropriate than if in say California...and I don't remember if your location was given...
I know Mueller is TX company but they sell world-wide...

As another option, why not consider two colors for the body of the house? One lighter and one darker -- it would help with the flat, linear aspect of the facade. I don't agree with the shutter idea, as I don't think they work with this style of architecture, and with so little space between the top of the windows and the roof, will make it feel squished towards the ground. Instead I would embrace the low, long feeling of the building and add some fence panels or low walls with a horizontal pattern to pull the house out into the landscape. Here's one pic of using two colors on a house. There are some other great ideas in the book Patterns of Home.

Brian, I strongly agree you do NOT add shutters to the house, it was not designed with them in mind and will never look right. Consider other options: add trim to the windows, add other materials (stone bases with beefed up columns, maybe stone wainscot at one wall), also landscape details are an option - a grid with vines to fill a wall and add depth. Paint the sample combos on the wall and live with them for a few days in variety of lighting conditions. Are you doing any interior reno that can create exterior change?

Search "red roof" for images of houses with red roofs and you will find a lot of examples of paint colors that go with red roofs--charcoal gray or dark green appeal to me but it's your house. You could accentuate the clean lines of the house with a modern aesthetic. Paint the trim around the windows either same or contrast color but don't add shutters. Remove the posts altogether if you can--you may need to add a support beam--because one of them blocks the picture window. You could also play up the window for a modern effect, maybe even painting inside the porch a different color or hue. Then ornament with potted plants & seating on the porch.

My question would be, what is your favourite colour? If you have a piece if the copper from the roof, take it in to the paint shop and put it against paint chips to see what works best together. You have to live with this house, and we could say all the colours of the rainbow. If its not a colour you love, then it won't work. I personally don't like the neutral colours, I like colours that pop. Our house, in a sea of neutral grey, brown and white houses is a lovely brick red with white trim. I agree with landscaping, that is important, but do what you love. It is your home. Good luck with your project and I would love to know what you choose and how it turns out

Green, cream, greige,(a beige leaning toward grey) all would go well with the copper color of the roof. Hmmm, how about a pretty wrought iron trellis or two with climbing flowering vines to the right of the left side window and between the smaller windows on the right side of the house.Trellises there could balance things out and draw the eye. If you use shutters you could match them to the roof color or use a very dark green, almost black depending on what color you choose for the body of the house, even a blue/gray color would go well..Use window boxes under every window,with trailing plants and flowers and one on the porch floor under the picture window. These would be quick fixes while waiting for foundation plantings to mature. Of course I am sure you have already looked at Sherwin Williams and Benjamin Moore sites to play around with the color choices and recommendations provided for free on their sites.

Love the copper roof! I think something in an earthy blue-green, blue grey, or grey-green would be beautiful. I agree beefing up the porch posts would add a lot of presence to the front entrance, as well as a fun colored front door. Depending on you budget, if you wanted to make the entry more prominent you could add railings (if that is indeed a porch and not just a covered front area). I think just changing up the color will make an amazing difference. I also like the idea of planter boxes that someone else suggested. Either raw cedar or copper planter boxes would be gorgeous and you could add a lot of color and tie it together with what you choose to plant in them. Plants with deep plumb or deep red colored leaves would be lovely.

Can't tell the window trim color. I it is a cream color, I would paint the house a deep turquoise blue and the shutters a deep rose. Beef up the posts and paint them cream.

If you can move the posts it would look better to flank the large window instead of cutting it in half... you could also try a boxed base for the posts and add more beef to the top by nailing extra planks to the 4x4 posts & trim them. I think you could get away with keeping the color of the siding and paint the trim a dark gray or coffee brown as well as the posts, fascia, and you could also bulk up your corner trim so it will pop more and break up the monotony. You could also expand the patio surface of your porch to bump out beyond the porch line and add slate... maybe a Japanese styled arbor painted the same color as the trim... I could see a Japanese garden with this house as well.

I am NOT good with colors but as I look at your photo is blah. Color IS needed but as I've read, WHAT do you want the curb view to see first??? The shape of the house??? Some yet to be installed landscaping??? A very welcoming front door??? The roof??? Once you stand back and get the homeowner emotion out of the equation, the colors will come. Does this front door face - north, south, east, west...? Color choices will depend on the reflection from the roof during different seasons of the year. I do agree with comments above that the front columns need beefing up. If they are faced with stone/rock and your colors chosen from that... Is it possible to move either column so the window becomes a focal point (with the front door)??? The one column is in the window and not balanced with the other (if a roof support, investigate. If decorative, move.) And a nice shrub (no taller than 2' below the roof line) between the window on the left and the front porch would be nice.. Lots to think about before you start spending money. (And I so agree with Mike Holmes...unless the shutters are functional - forget it. I personally do NOT like decorative shutters...at all!!)

what is the siding material? is it real wood or something else? if real wood, either plank or shingle, i would suggest sandblasting to remove the current color before beginning. then, remove the current porch supports and replace them with a dry stacked slate look, repositioned on either side of the front window. i would like to see a semi-transparent stain in a blue-green on the siding: deep charcoal for the trim to co-ordinate with the new slate posts. posts could be done easily by dry-laying the stone around house jacks. add orangey terra cotta pottery accent pieces in the landscape. also, i agree: no shutters.

I second and third the sage-y green and cream ideas. Beef up the posts and trim. I think I see a storm door - remove it if you can. Plant soft shrubs with some height to break up the horizontal line and add interest. I love your roof - I have a neighbor a few doors down with the same thing. I think I'll pop over and actually notice what color his house is :)

I have to agree with DeeDee as well. The sage greys , i used Benjamin Moore HC 100 Gloucester Sage with HC 99 Abingdon Putty as the trim. My gate and front door are done in BM 2070-10. Tulsa Twilight . Looks great in the spring with deep purple tulips accent the front walk way. However I have seen this combo with black and dark grey. The twilight would look great on the shutters. I have added some photos of this colour grouping.. Sorry today, we have a cloudy day on the west coast, no rain!!!

Adding lots of natural stone to the house and landscaping would "anchor" the house to the landscape, and help tie the copper roof to the house.

As druesig stated, what do you want? Pick your style, feel and go from there. My front yard is all enclosed and I wanted the European garden look. There are so many great ideas on this site pick your favourites and then make it your own unique look. Can't gone wrong with that.

Besides moving the post on the porch to flank the picture window, I think you need to address the large wall space on the left of the porch. After you paint, you could install a trellis that sits away from the house to avoid moisture problems. Depending on you preference and climate there area ivies, roses, wisteria that could be trained on it. The clump birch at the corners suggest that this is a northern home. You could also espalier a fruit tree or even a grape vine to add interest to this area.

My 2$ (no cents symbol on keyboard): I believe the gray/taupey gray/acanthus green mentioned by several people take the setting into consideration. The pic of the house shows a strong amount of greenery, at least in the growing months, and this should not clash with the house color. I like the idea of shoring up the architectural details, perhaps with a strong gray color. Please do not add shutters, as this will clash with the style of the house. Perhaps emphasizing the window fittings with the accent color will accomplish your vision.

There is a color used on hardy plank siding called timberbark, its a beautiful taupe color, which looks fabulous with cream trim such as others mentioned, (most stores that carry the hardy plank also carry paint and will be happy to color match it.) And I would use the sage green on the door and shutters should you chose to use them, although I agree the picture window and small window should be ommited.I think if you used stone at the bottom of your posts maybe 21/2 feet and box them in with 1x6 and trim them out with molding, and paint them in the cream shade they would look great.I also agree they need to be repositioned.And all you asked for was a paint suggestion lol.

I would use a sherman williams #1 Harbor Mist #2 Leeward #3 Ficus #4 Mountain ash but I would also take it a shade lighter for the porch area. for the house color #1 use SW Blue Shadow #2 River wood #3*** Not sure may be all would look good with a stone clad veneer**** #4 Hawthorn and then why not accent with a copper color ( Spiced Cider@ SW IE: copper window boxes, house numbers, ( planters have them copper clad buy someone who does metal roofing or aluminum siding. The posts = I agree should be bigger/stone or gone. Spend a good amount of money on the front post and porch issues, as the rest is just minimal/paint and some decor. Your roof is going to be noticed because of the degree of pitch, so I feel your home should look as rich in color to accent each other. I do Not see any cream trim colors as an option as that would contradict the effort put into this project. Have fun with it and happy color hunting. I have used SW as a jumping off point for color choices, but Harbor mist would be my #1 #2 would be Ficus with a stone veneer

Cream exterior with a dark to medium shade of brown window pain is a modern way of renovating the house.

Okay, in the process of building a lake place that has your roof color on the siding. We have a dark brown roof with white window trim. It looks fabulous. I am sure the color combination would work with your house. If you want to pop it up with some color what about making a statement with a turquiose door? You would have to be very comfortable with color or it wont be what you want. I find people tend to be quite conservative with house colors-both in and out. Myself, well I like a lot of color. What about trying a dark earthy green? When we repainted our home I got to be best friends with the people at the paint store. Go get some colors YOU like and try them out. You may have to spend a few bucks for samples, but its a lot cheaper than getting a color on your house you dont like and end up repainting a year or so down the road! Best of luck!

I think the large window on left looks lost and needs shutters you don't have to put shutters on small windows but paint trim around window same color as shutters to compliment them. There's no right or wrong way. Landscaping is a major need for curb appeal, it makes or breaks the look, don't skip in that area and get professional help.I personally think a beige/taupe look would open it up, great background for green shrubs pull in the roof and black shutters a Black door (or beautiful wood) with glass insert and some stone on posts would set this house off. Also needs lighting on the ground facing up on the house will make house look taller.

any shade of soft blue-green would be great with that roof

I would think of beige(light shade of brown), for the house cladded with a relatively dark brown shade of stone to some parts; to the corners of the house, possibly below the window too. Brown shutters will do.