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Help with exterior house colours please!

4 years ago

Hi there, this is my first time posting here. I have a dilemma about colour scheme for the exterior of my home. I'm looking for some advice on siding colour around the dormers and below the bay windows on my house. Things to consider, there's a pink tone in the brick that I'd like to make less obvious, and the front double doors will change to a wood tone single door with sidelights. At the moment, I'm thinking about a light colour for the siding in a board and batten style, but I'm not sure what the tone of white to use that will 'cancel' out the pink in the brick. Looking for ideas and suggestions on colours and texture for the dormers and bay windows.


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  • 4 years ago

    This photo came from an earlier Houzz post and they used SW Keystone Grey on the siding, garage doors & gable and SW Agreeable Grey for the soffits, gutters and trim to compliment their pink brick. They also used a wood tone front door. As far as color, you could consider painting all the windows (trim & siding) a white (SW Snowbound is suggested as a good match but always bring home samples to test) that would coordinate with SW Agreeable Grey which you could use on your front door and garage door. Or you could try the SW pearly white below with the keystone grey for the doors. Which ever one looks best with both your brick and your front step stone color.



    On the house below they used the SW Keystone Grey for the shutters and SW Pearly White for the rest.

    maybe horizontal lap siding on our dormers instead of shingles? The board and batten feels more disjointed however.


    A simple square panel trim on the bottom of your bay windows would tie into your garage door and the whole bay is typically one color as the architecture of the window is a design in and of itself.




  • 4 years ago

    Do a search on Cedar Shingle exterior here in Houzz to see some color combinations. Here is a nice one where the soffits and trim are the accent. https://www.houzz.com/hznb/photos/craftsman-traditional-craftsman-san-francisco-phvw-vp~37603328

  • 4 years ago

    I agree with the above regarding the bay windows. The bottom portion should be white.

    For the dormers you can try to have the shingles brought back to light wood. And then stain it any color you like.

    I absolutely love the style and color of your front doors and would keep them!!! Pls! Lol

    You don’t much. This house is so cute as is.
    But if you have the time and budget I might extend the porch a bit and maybe add some posts...
    good luck!

  • 4 years ago

    Thanks to all for your insight and suggestions! I will definitely make the bottom part of the bay windows all white! Still considering some of your other ideas… like extending the porch and adding some posts! Thanks again!

  • 4 years ago
    last modified: 4 years ago

    Are the roof shingles shades of medium to dark brown (that's what they appear to be on my screen)?

    Agree with decoenthusiaste. Do stain the brick -- don't paint it .

    Do at least consider colors other than dark brown though. If your house is all dark brown -- roof and brick siding and your trim white, that is a stark contrast that will emphasis the dark brown home. Do you want a dark brown home? It's always best to know the available options and make informed decisions. Different companies will have different stain colors.

    https://www.dyebrick.com/


    If you don't want the red cedar wood look for your dormers, you could paint your dormer shingles white rather than adding stain color.

  • 4 years ago

    I agree with Sue bell, be careful of too much brown given your roof is so prominent.

  • 4 years ago

    don’t paint all the wood white. Paint it a sage green or clay color. I like the idea of recladding the bottom of your bay windows in cedar. I like your doors but would paint them another color, and decide that after you’ve made all the other changes.

    Get rid of the urns, wall planters, tree stump and other decor that isn’t really in keeping with the look of the house.

    Make very modest permanent changes because your house is really basically attractive as it is, even with its varying coloring in the brick and cedar. You could easily deaden the look of the house into something plastic and lacking personality — which is the end result of a ltot of design advice, which is premised on stamping out everything that doesn’t look this year’s store bought and more-like-your-neighbors

  • PRO
    4 years ago
    last modified: 4 years ago

    I found it is very lovely color from the second photo from bottom by hu818472722.

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