Need help choosing exterior paint colors

3 years ago

We plan to paint the exterior siding, trim, gutters, and garage door of our house soon and need help choosing a color scheme that works well with our brick, reddish brown roof, and new black windows. Currently, the siding is a sage green, trim is white, and garage door is beige. I understand the previous owner's decision to use these colors, as they pulled from some of the lighter brick colors. However, it's not my cup of tea. I am open to painting or staining the brick to create a uniform look, but my husband is a hard no on touching the brick at all. As you can see, we're growing ivy on most of the front brick anyway.

We initially thought white siding with a dark brown for the trim, gutters, and garage door would be a classic choice and work well, but I'm concerned it will result in too much contrast and make the house look dated and busy. Should we go with a dark siding and even darker trim, go lighter, use the same color for everything? Currently, we are leaning toward a medium brown siding with dark brown trim, gutters, garage door. Never thought I would lean toward darks/browns but I want to choose a scheme that works best with the brick, roof, windows! That particular scheme looks good to me on the online color visualizers, but I would like your input, please!

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cat_ky

3 years ago

I like your existing colors too. Nice house. I do agree, get that ivy off the brick, because it will eventually damage it.

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Celery. Visualization, Rendering images
3 years ago
I like your existing colors.
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chloebud
3 years ago
I also like the current colors. The brick is one of the nicest features of the house. I would keep the ivy off of it. All the white "stripes" of trim make it a little busy to me. The hedge between the garage and front entry should be trimmed way down, or replaced with something smaller. I would also want the garage door to be the same color as the siding. Consider a garage door with windows across the top to help break up the "wall" of garage.
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houssaon
3 years ago
You could go for two shades of a gray brown.
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houssaon
3 years ago
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Or a green with brown.
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bbluth
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3 years ago
Wow thanks for the input, guys! While I think the green works, it's just not my thing. I have played with gray browns, taupes, and think they look nice. I definitely want to stay with neutral earthy tones but I'm not feeling the green. I am also conflicted about the tudor-style, or board and batten, trim. Do we paint it the same color as the siding to reduce the busy look, and perhaps paint only the perimeter trim a different color? This was a question our painter asked because it's sort of in style right now.

I think the beige garage door is what irks me the most. We did consider a new garage door but decided against the cost of it for now. Our painters are coming by with some taupes and dark brown samples tomorrow, so keep the ideas coming!
houssaon
3 years ago
Here are some ideas.

Taupe would also look good with River Reflections.
Bliss149
3 years ago
I'd go as light as your lightest brick - looks like an ivory. Trim the same color as the siding.
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houssaon
3 years ago
Here is the front in those two schemes.
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