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Wrong Color, using SW please help!

I had work so long during the find the right color the dark green and creamish house in the second photo I bought so many quarts of Sherwin-Williams, because I get a discount there.. do you think it is one of the colors in the third picture I'm not sure anymore I've been working so long?

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  • last year
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    I do not think the house in the second picture is green at all, it may be a super dark olive which all this goes to show why you should never attempt matches off of a picture or computer monitor as that may very well be computer enhanced and you will never match it.

  • last year
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    I also believe that house could be a dark olive, and quite honestly, the color on your house looks more like a Christmas green. I am not sure, your house will ever look a lot like the house in the picture though, because, it has all white trim, and windows, and you have black windows. Are your windows paintable to white, if so, that and the right shade of olive, would maybe help achieve your vision.

  • last year

    Those are the bars on the windows and just brown paint. Does it look like any of those colors in that last picture? Laurel Woods?

  • PRO
    last year
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    Finish the painting job and work on landscaping.

    If possible I would remove the black grills on the windows.



  • last year

    This was the other house color I was looking at but I really do not like the one called pewter green that is up there now and it looks like it's a creamish color that goes with that dark olive I have a fan deck from Sherwin-Williams and nothing is matching right but thank you for the picture so much

  • last year

    In front and on the sides the bars are coming down the security door is coming off and I don't like those rails either on that stoop they're going to be going.. I just have to make sure I get electric in the house first so I can have an alarm system up and running

  • last year

    Vogue green or forrestwood green look closer to the color of the inspiration house, and either is much better than the green you have just put on there.

  • PRO
    last year

    The colour that's partly painted is more of a forest green, is this olive green more like what you want?



  • last year

    Isle of Pines Secret Garden, I just want to make sure it looks like that during the day when the Sun doesn't hit from that direction it's only morning sunlight I thought maybe I think ripest Olive but that and the ones that are in the picture I provided none of those even look dark enough now

  • last year

    No none of your swatches is olive green or dark enough to hit the inspo pic. Laurel woods --if it's in the middle of a line of greens might have a darker color of the same family. The light outside is changing and makes all colors look different at times. That can't be avoided. It will look dark almost gray at times if you go with your inspo pic. That's just how olive green works. The sun will bring out the undertones.

  • last year
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    When looking at exterior colors you really need large samples and need to look at each sample at different times of the day on all 4 sides of the home.

    Because you are painting a huge surface smaller samples that look gray or too muddy are the ones that when painted on that big surface look right.

    The ones that look good on the small sample look way more colorful once you get a few hundred square feet painted.

    I believe you were trying to say that the current exterior color is Isle of Pines.

    Look at how bright it looks on your home. It is in the middle section of the SW colors.

    For the look you want you need to stick to muted shades or even go into the neutrals with green undertones.



    These are some of the colors I would test



    Here is a blog post on Muddled Basil (Darkest/Greenest Yellow)

    https://nadinestay.com/our-exterior-phase-1-reveal/

    Pewter green is one I didn't include you said you didn't like it, but also seemed to be calling it a cream, which it is not. It is one of the top selling green paint colors in the SW lineup.

    Can you be clearer on why you didn't like Pewter Green?



  • PRO
    last year

    Here's the house in an Olive Green but to know if it will be to your expectations in different lights, you'll have to do samples in a few areas and look at it at different times of the day.



  • last year

    So SW gave me 2 quarts to try, I already have a Laurel Woods I'm going to try, the others are:

    Ripe Olive & Shade Grown

  • PRO
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    I used lisedv rendition to show that my color picker shows Andiron SW.

    https://www.sherwin-williams.com/en-us/color/color-family/green-paint-colors/SW6174-andiron



  • last year
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    You need to try SW Colorsnap....upload your photo and paint your house virtually...like this sample from them. Your house is going to be so pretty.

    I'm not suggesting these colors....this is to show ColorSnap for two colors mentioned.




  • last year

    My daughter recenty painted her house SW Pewter Green. It does not look like the color you have currently started on your house AND it is definitely not a cream color.


    Colors will look lighter outside than they do inside your home.


    This is SW Pewter Green + Alabaster (I think it's Alabaster):



  • 7 months ago

    Ok I repainted but I'm stuck again the color is ripe Olive by Sherwin-Williams I'm going to have gold light fixtures I'll paint them security bars off the front we have a couple different ideas I'm going to make another post activity I think this is a nightmare and I should know about color theory I took illustration at a 4-year private art college in Denver, but I could only afford the semester that I had one from a grant

  • 7 months ago

    So it's darker now and I'm thinking either a woodish color dark yellowish or like this other photo but also I plan on adding a window box to the front window closest to the fireplace so that could be a matching color and then possibly shutters on the top left window what do you think?

  • 7 months ago

    You can't ignore the fixed elements (roof color, chimney color, window frame colors) in selecting a body color, even if the inspiration photo dazzles you. Note the color of the chimney and roof (gray and charcoal) in that inspiration photo. Find an inspiration photo that has the color of your chimney, roof and black window sashes, then use that body paint.

    Also, be aware of the "undertones" in paint: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple. Your inspiration photo indeed has olive green, i.e., brown (darkened yellow), where your actual paint has blue as an undertone. The inspiration is a muddy (i.e., yellow/brown) green, where your actual paint color is clear blue undertone in the green. Just look at a RBG color wheel, one with red at the top and green at the bottom. Draw a line through the middle. Those on the blue side are "cool" colors; those on the yellow side are "warm" colors. Your roof and chimney, and your inspiration photo are all on the "warm" side of the color wheel. Just make sure your next paint selection is from that "warm" side instead.

  • 7 months ago

    The house looks lighter not darker, maybe because the sun is on it in this picture but not the original photo.