home exterior paint colors advice
Prob. wo not get to it til next season at this point, but I am trying to
decide what colors to paint my front door, trim, foundation (below where
siding leaves off) and steps, windows, and shutters (which l do not have
yet). The house has vinyl siding that is light grey/blue. That can not
change, at least for now. The roof is black. The house is a typical modest
1950 rambler, 880 SF. l can not find a pic of the whole thing at this
moment, so that info should help you. Here is a pic showing the basic colors that are there now: http://sprig5.livejournal.com/85750.html l want something tasteful, but colorful, happy. Ideally l would have liked the siding to be a warm but muted yellow, or beige bordering on peach, l guess. l do not want such light colors for the trim with grey siding though. Thoughts?
If you are just wanting to paint the trim and door for now then
I would paint the trim white and paint the front door either a navy blue or
a brick red.
With the colours of your siding and looking at the pics, have
you thought about the possibility of a blue/lavender colour, with white
trims? With a couple of pots of bright red flowers, the contrast looks
fantastic and always brings to mind a bright sunny day?
It is quite a tradtional, mediterranean style look, but with red, white
and blue, it couldn't be more patritoic and really bright and cheerful too.
I would use Sherwin Williams colors ''sundance'' and ''sole.''
Both are shades of yellow, one slightly lighter than the other. I would
use sole on the door & shutters & skirting, and sundance on the trim &
window frames, & gutters. It would really brighten up the house a lot, I
think.
http://sherlink.sherwin.com/swapp/color_visualizer/index.jsp
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