When to Paint Your Home Yellow
Be a cheer leader with this color that captures the sun and radiates a warm welcome
Thinking of making your home's exterior color evoke summertime and sunshine? Then consider yellow. Ranging from soft and earth toned to more electric and brash, yellow serves a home's exterior well. Whether they're set off by winter's snow and gray skies or summer's green landscape and blue skies, yellow homes make their presence known.
I find that the color yellow is best used for traditional-style homes. From the more ocher yellows of stuccoed exteriors on Tuscan villas to the bright, almost neon palette of some 19th-century exteriors, yellow keeps a home warm, welcoming and cheerful.
So let's leave white to those most rational and platonic of home styles, such as colonial and modernist, and explore using some joyous yellow.
I find that the color yellow is best used for traditional-style homes. From the more ocher yellows of stuccoed exteriors on Tuscan villas to the bright, almost neon palette of some 19th-century exteriors, yellow keeps a home warm, welcoming and cheerful.
So let's leave white to those most rational and platonic of home styles, such as colonial and modernist, and explore using some joyous yellow.
Bright, contrasting trim enriches a yellow exterior so the eye can dance around, picking up details here and there.
A soft yellow stuccoed body works very well for a Tuscan-style home. Add some burnt oranges and antique reds, and you'll have the makings of a warm and inviting exterior. Yellow also acts as a nice complement to green landscaping.
Yellow is also an excellent choice for a board and batten house. Reminiscent of farmhouses and a rural landscape, yellow gives the house some stature and definition while still being homey and inviting.
A really wonderful color palette for the tropics is a soft yellow home set against a lush green landscape and bright, painterly sky. In fact, tropical light enriches the yellow, turning the color almost gold.
Colors can also be used to break up and scale down the overall size of a home. The combination of a soft yellow body, white trim and black accents keeps this large home from being overwhelming.
And yellow, especially in its more electric hue, can be a lot of fun. While this may not be the color of choice for a really large home, it can certainly work well on a smaller, more two-dimensional structure.
While yellow isn't the preferred choice of modernism, there are cases where it's the right color. (Yes, there are exceptions that prove the rule.) So in the right setting and with the right material choices, such as wood and stucco with large expanses of glass, a soft, more earth-toneCan we get yellow is highly appropriate.
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