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Painting exterior white with black accents. Need help.

3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago

I am painting our exterior white, likely SW pure white.

I love the all white look—white trim, white siding, but I’m not sure my house can pull it off so I’m considering incorporating black. Other options would be black trim, black garage doors, and/or black window trim. I also need to paint the front porch. I will likely replace the front door with a natural wood door or black. What would you do?









Comments (12)

  • 3 years ago

    I'd keep the trim at the roofline dark and the garage doors natural. When looking for inspo pics, you should look for houses of a similar style. Drive around your neighborhood .

  • PRO
    3 years ago
    last modified: 3 years ago

    Here is what your house could look like in white. I left the porch in stained wood (but can also be painted) and added flower boxes to the front windows for a bit of detail. Increased the landscaping. I've also done the white trim of your windows in black.


  • PRO
    3 years ago

    Here are some of the colours suggested by Jinx



  • 3 years ago
    last modified: 3 years ago

    Oh, I like that gray, lisedv! And I’m not usually a big fan of gray. Looks good here, thanks for showing it!

  • 3 years ago
    last modified: 3 years ago

    No white. What you have looks great, with the trees etc there. If you just have to paint, the gray above looks like it would probably go nicely. White just will not look good on your house.

  • PRO
    3 years ago

    Thank you all for the suggestions. I hate the brown. It must be painted. The reason I don’t want to go too dark is because we don’t have AC and I worry about it getting too warm in the summer months. I do like the white with gray. Perhaps that’s a better, less trendy option. It’s a 1980s tri-level in the PNW.

  • PRO
    3 years ago

    The sketch above was actually light grey with dark grey trim such as this (Olympic solid stain).



  • PRO
    3 years ago

    @lisedv thank you so much. I’m now leaning towards a creamy white with a light warm grey trim, similar to these. Im hoping it works okay with the style of my home.

  • PRO
    3 years ago

    Looks nice! Good luck with your project! send pictures with result!😊


  • 3 years ago

    I think it’ll look good … here’s an older contemporary in that scheme:





  • PRO
    3 years ago

    @lisedv @jinx thank you so much for the help! I’ll be sure to post photos when it’s done. Thanks again.

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