I LOVE your front door with your brick colour! I would paint the trim the same for an even more contemporary, sophisticated look. If you are able to tell me the colour of the door, I could try and find darker versions for you to consider.

That is what I was thinking too. But didn’t know if it would stand out too much.

thank you for the responses. I was learning towards a gray color. thanks so much for your help

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I think the door & trim the same would look great. Perhaps just change rye sheen of the door for a slight contrast.

please do you have the number of that Behr colour?

Oh and yes. My decking is 100% pink. it does make the brick look worse. The brick has a lot of pink tones, with tans/Beige. The mortar is a cool gray though. That was what i tried color matching to get a paint idea.

I have one question for your pros. I Had almost settled on the trim being the front door color. Then I thought that’s would be too dark for a home all in the same color . I will attach a photo of the front of the house. Is the general rule that the trim should be lighter and doors and accent be darker?

I do I attached a photo above as I don’t see the actual name.

Marylee let me know if you can see that photo thanks again

Oh I just saw you asked for the number. I do not. I guess it was a custom color. Previous owners painted it

Traditionally that was often the way, but often a more contemporary take is to utilise the same colour and vary the sheen. It picks out architectural details tonally rather than through colour,,,

Was that a colour match to Sherwin Williams 7031 Mega Greige? I think it’s lovely. At 80° it‘s a near neutral in the Yellow Hue Family. You can plot it in the Colour Strategist wheel using its Hue Angle.

See on the tin where it says SW 7031?

The SW version does have a decent, measurable quantity of red in the colour, which is probably why you read it as working so well with the pink tones within your brick.

Now we have that colour notation, I can find darker versions, which are closely related should you choose.

But if it were me I would probably go with same colour in different sheens. It’s lovely.

Yes, it very well would could be. The color reads gray with a green tint on the house. I will look up SW color and see if it look similar

Gosh I don’t know. That color looks was too tan.

And, I don’t want to make your head explode,,,but, there is a way to tie your front door colour and trim, even more closely to the brick. There is a tiny device ($55) which connects to an app on your phone. It actually measures the colour of the brick. it’s as quick as taking a photo.

With a surface as varied as yours I would measure about 5 different bricks. get the average Hue angle to plot ot on the colour wheel. That makes it very easy to find paint colours to harmonise with it from the same Hue Family.

Once you have that, you can find lighter/darker/warmer/cooler/more grey/ more colourful colours to work closely with ithe brick. They will relate as they belong to the same Hue Family.

Monitors and devices all render colour differently, making it so hard to tell. I bet the Behr store would be able to tell you straight away, should you need more of it. It may not be SW colour, but I cannot find Behr Marquee as a colour on their site.

Here is the info I have for SW 7031

That is really awesome, I have never heard of such a thing. I teach art (to kids) and this could be really cool to have!

When I put the photo in Sw photo app it recognized the paint to be 7031The mega greige even though it looks nothing like it when you paint it on the app. It looks much closer to 7060 attitude gray

I would love your suggestion to what you think is best. I’ll take all the free help I can get 😀

would you paint the deck the same darker color? Was hoping to do a darker color as we have so many trees the pink deck currently has to be cleaned yearly (But could use it more)

Ooh if you teach art to kids, I can really make your head explode! I have a great article I would love to discuss with you. (if you are on Instagram I am the_glassroom)

Yes - I think the same dark colour for the deck would be really chic!

Also for defo, you should get the device if you teach art. You will NEVER look at colour the same way again!

If you suss out what your colour is, by measuring or via help from Behr, then I can very readily find you whatever version of the colour you need.

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I am on IG I am @ohpudge I’ll go find you now! Thanks for all your help. I’m going to paint some swathes with what I have and then go from there. all the paint stores are closed due to this stupid virus. So until then I’ll just use my paint closet for tester colors!

Your IG page is so lovely!!!!! All the cohesion. Make me heart happy

I think there is a quiet sense of refinement from a palette that is so edied & simplified,,

Oh brilliant! See you over there! 🌈