Buy my Exterior Colour Solutions advice here and get the right colours for your exterior via email. You can buy just the advice you need, every purchase whether it’s paint for your trim or new windows is a colour decision first. If you are painting your exterior this season, don’t make an expensive mistake. The house above is a pretty use of colour.īut the colour on this house (above) looks too random and unrelated. Just because you have more than one siding product on your house, doesn’t mean each one needs to be painted a different colour. It looks cleaner and more sophisticated with less. What’s the undertone of the roof in comparison to the brick in this house (above)? If this was your house and you had to do it again, would you choose that roof? 5. However, if you are installing brick or stone that will already be multicoloured, a patchy looking asphalt roof will not be ideal and will mostly clash with your fixed elements rather than relate to them nicely. If you have a solid colour house like mine (above) then a blotchy, asphalt roof is perfectly fine and might be more interesting than a solid coloured roof. Don’t be obsessed with installing an asphalt roof that has ‘dimension’Īsphalt roofing companies try really hard to copy the look of a real slate roof or Mediterranean tile that have variation in colour. And as you can see in the after picture, I moved the downspout. MaryAnne White my fabulous landscape designer specified the new, beefed up column. My former post looks thicker in the before picture (above) because of the angle it was taken and also because the downspout is attached to it but trust me, it was skinny. Beef up your skinny posts for an easy way to improve the curb appeal of your house instantly! Don’t install posts columns that are too skinny.īuilders notoriously install fence posts instead of columns. The best colour for these shutters is more of a pinky taupe, which one would you choose?ģ. They are a blue grey while the dark colour in this stone is more of a pinky taupe. Notice however that the stone (above) does not relate at all to the shutters. The exception to this if your earth tones are pale, like this home below: If you are installing earthy stone or brick on the exterior of your house, your windows should be cream NOT bright white. White goes with fresh and crisp colours and cream goes with earthy colours. When choosing vinyl windows, don’t ignore the colour of your house. Paint is okay, at least it can be changed, however if you paint your exterior a dark trendy neutral at the end of a 10 year trend, it will instantly make your paint job look 10 years old. This is the reason why I only specify charcoal for front doors or shutters. I don’t know about you but if I was building a house that I expected to live in more than 5-10 years - which is the lifespan of any colour trend - I wouldn’t want it to scream, “We built this house in the grey trend, or the brown trend.” You drive up the mountain and all the homes are varying shades of brown and then the closer you get to the newer homes, they turn into charcoals, greys and black shades. In fact there’s a subdivision built on a mountainside not far from where I live that is basically brown. “It’s rare that I drive by an exterior (even in expensive neighbourhoods where designers were clearly involved with colour choices) that I actually like. “That’s because most of them are bad,” I said. They gave me a stunned look and the wife said, “That’s our biggest argument, we can’t agree on an exterior colour combination that we both like.” When we got to the conversation about exterior colour and started looking at stone and brick colours, I informed them that a beautiful combination of stone and brick was almost as rare as a unicorn sighting and I asked them if they had a photograph of an exterior they had seen that they both liked. They spent 3 1/2 hours with me in my studio and we chose colours for all their major fixed elements for their interior like hardwood floors, countertops, tile, and then outside. Recently I consulted with a couple on their new build. Don’t choose fixed elements in the current, dark trendy neutral. If you are painting your exterior this season, don’t make these 5 common mistakes with your exterior colour.
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