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girlwonder88

Need exterior paint advice!

7 years ago
We are in the midst of a remodel and my husband just asked me to pick out exterior paint today (?!?!?) so he can start on the finished areas. I need expert help picking colors, please! I definitely want a bright front door-leaning towards yellow, but bright green or blue are on the table. Husband prefers red but our neighbors across the street just did that. I was thinking a darker greige with light trim? Any specific recommendations? Below I have pics of current exterior, addition section that is ready to paint, and architectural drawing of finished front.
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  • 7 years ago

    I like the body color here.

    Comments (31)

    • 7 years ago
      Better pic of your roof color of roof is staying....
    • 7 years ago
      If roof is staying

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    • 7 years ago
      Roof is staying. I’ll go get one.
    • 7 years ago

      Yes...roof color will help.

    • 7 years ago
      The bid says the color is dual black but I am not sure that’s what it exactly is-when they did the roof on the addition they tried to match rest of roof.
    • 7 years ago

      A black-ish roof means lots of color choices. Is there anything you know you don't want?

    • 7 years ago
      I do think it’s lighter than the dual black sample-more grey. Hard to get a good pic on this gloomy day! I’m pretty open re color-husband says no electric blue or neon or garish. I’d prefer not to be too light-white or near white.
    • 7 years ago

      Do you consider the current color to be too light?

    • 7 years ago
      Emmarene, yes, currently color is too light for my tastes.

      I had looked at doing a color consultation with Maria Killam, but you know remodeling is-everything is more expensive than was budgeted and so it’s nice to save money where we can.

      I like the colors in the house above!
    • 7 years ago
      I know your husband said no to a white for the main body so picture this door and house in a very light warm grey. I like the grey emmarene selected but I would do your house slightly lighter.
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      I think greys can be tricky. You don’t want them to be too cool / battleship grey - more of a greige. I wonder what Amazing Grey by SW would look like on your exterior. White trim and chartreuse(ish) door. Do you have time to paint samples on the house?
    • 7 years ago
      Thinkdesign, I love the idea of that combo. Ok go look for some pics of that color. And I can paint samples-he was all motivated Friday night that we were going to start this weekend but then got distracted
    • 7 years ago
      Made it to Sherwin Williams (hadn’t been there-typically buy Behr) and picked up a bunch of swatches and four quart samples-Amazing Gray, Dovetail, Poolhouse, and Mindful Gray.
    • PRO
      7 years ago

      Some visualization




    • PRO
      7 years ago

      I think off-white would go good.




    • PRO
      7 years ago

      Grecian Ivory SW is great


    • 7 years ago
      You are magic! Is it possible to do that with the architectural drawings?
    • 7 years ago

      I don't have the skill of Celery Girl, but here is what I was able to do.

    • PRO
      7 years ago
      last modified: 7 years ago

      Emmarene did good visualizing.

      Here I am with some rendering

    • 7 years ago
      You guys are amazing. We painted around several of the addition windows with a sample color-now I just need some good daylight to see and photograph.
    • 7 years ago
      Three samples: SW Dovetail, Mindful Gray and Amazing Gray. Foggy morning so light isn’t great.
    • 7 years ago
      They all look good on my screen. Are the shakes remaining the color they are?
    • 7 years ago
      No the shakes are just primered.
    • 7 years ago
      It would be great to see it in a sunny day as well. And with the roof tone as that is an important element.
    • 7 years ago

      Are you planning to do one color, or two separate colors for the shake and siding?

    • 7 years ago
      last modified: 7 years ago



      This is a color palette I chose for a house (I work for a builder) the shake is SW7019 Gauntlet Gray, Siding is SW7017 Dorian Gray, trim is SW7014 Eider White and front door is SW7682 Bees Wax.

    • 7 years ago
      I’m leaning towards one color but husband likes two color idea.

      Here’s a poor shot that shows roof color. I will try to get a sunny one, but I’m in Oregon and the law is that it’s only sunny during the day on work days.
    • 7 years ago
      I think I agree with you about one color.
    • 7 years ago
      Just picked up HGTV magazine during a four hour flight delay and like thisnlook a lot-paint is Grey Tweed by Glidden. Thoughts?
    • 7 years ago

      I like Dovetail and the Grey Tweed above looks good too.

    • 7 years ago
      I like the grey tweed. Not just ‘grey’. I like the hint of green to it. And the door color is nice as well!
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