Exterior Paint Color Selection Guide
Well chosen exterior paint colors can dramatically improve your home’s curb appeal and add value to your house. Many home owners are aware that changing up your siding and trim can create an entirely new look, but with thousands of exterior paint colors, dozens of manufacturers and many sheens to choose from, the possible combinations of house painting colors can be mind numbing.
For most home owners the process of choosing exterior paint colors can be one of the most difficult, time consuming aspects of the entire project! The challenge is to allow your personality to shine through, while retaining (or increasing!) curb appeal.
We recognize that it’s best to get this right the first time, even if paint is fairly inexpensive. Sure in many situations the color can be easily changed with a little more effort and a few more gallons of paint if you don’t like the results, but our goal with this section of our website is to help you get the right exterior paint color the first time.
A lot of different factors come into play when you’re choosing exterior paint colors for your home. It’s a decision that carries with it a lot of pressure for homeowners who are trying to ...
By anonymous.
Choosing your exterior paint color is often complicated by factors outside of your control. For example, you may live in a home where HOA restrictions control your choices. Certain colors may not even be allowed, ...
By Michael Peters
(Sydney, Australia)
Choosing Exterior Colors for Your Home It may sound surprising, but the first rule for choosing the color for your home’s exterior is this: don’t pick your favorite. Consider your house and its era. A California ...
When painting the exterior of your home, there are a few different things that you will want to consider before getting started. Choosing exterior paint colors is a step in the remodeling process that takes a great ...
By D.Cummings
One of the reasons people choose to paint their home is to get it ready to sell. The paint may be fading or peeling and this can make a big difference in the way potential buyers view ...
By anonymous.
Choosing paint colors for your home can be frustrating and time consuming, but it doesn’t have to be! The “Choosing Paint Colors Like a ...
Front doors are the usually the first thing passersby notice about a home. After scanning the yard, the eye automatically goes to the home’s entrance. Choosing a color for the front door can be an ...
Does someone else have a say in your home’s color? Your Homeowner’s Association or community charter may dictate (or forbid!) the use of certain exterior paint colors. Be sure to check; painting over a shade ...
By LJ Alameda-Sew
(VictorKlassen.com)
Exterior doors come in all forms. Some are made purely of wood while others combine the mediums of glass, metal, and wood. While other exterior doors are built to be pushed or pulled, some door makers lean towards ...
When choosing exterior paint, there is more to consider than whether the color looks nice. Exterior paint color performance is improved with new paint formulas but that doesn’t mean that they are immune to ...
By D.Cummings
We have all seen houses that we wondered where the idea for the color came from. Did they find the paint at a huge discount or do they actually like that color? There is nothing that ...
Did you realize that painting the the average home will require at least $750.00 worth of paint? If you don’t get the color right, you’ll only have two choices—live with the color for a long time or fork out a ...
By George J. Newton
The simple act of painting the outside of your house is one of the easiest ways to add value to your home. People assume that the outside of your home reflects on the family who lives there. Keeping ...
By Janice A. Fletcher
Ask an artist, and they’ll tell you how colors can make so much of a difference to, well, anything. There’s color present in every part of the things that surround us. In fact, there are ...
Restoring Your Home to the Original Historic Paint Colors If you live in a historic home, your house has probably been painted several times over the years. The current paint job probably bears no resemblance to it’s ...
By anonymous.
Just painted our house….2/3 aluminum siding and 1/3 brick. Decided to paint the brick as well since the house is a ranch and is very long, the red brick made it look smaller and didn’t do anything for the home. We painted ...
When choosing paint colors to paint your house or office it can be a daunting task. There are 3 general groups of paint schemes: Monochromatic schemes are based on one hue, which varies in value (lightness and darkness), ...
Painting your home’s stucco exterior is a big undertaking that not only affects the look of your home, but your wallet, as well. While many stucco homes require specialized painting techniques to ensure ...
As a professional painting company, Crowder Painting has found over the years that applying paint samples before committing to the final color and sheen of paint for the job is a very important part of any house painting job. Even ...
By Wallpaper Lady and More, Inc
(Portland, Oregon)
Selecting a nice color scheme for the exterior of your home can really mean the difference between a great looking home or just another plain looking box on the street like all the rest. But, you don’t need to go ...
By Janette Mae Philipps
(Dallas)
What do you do when you want to jazz up the look of the outside of your house? You may decide to change the colors of the walls and your front door, as well as any shutters or gates that you have. But ...
It seems like there’s an app for just about everything in this day and age. That certainly applies to the home improvement field, as there are a wide range of apps designed to help both professionals and the DIY ...
The excitement of painting your beautiful front porch builds for days, maybe even weeks, as you dream of the relaxing space that will soon come to be. The wood has been sanded and primed, the paint colors ...
By Timothy Ross
If you’re a painting contractor, then you know that choosing the right colors is essential to a successful project. Many homeowners are overwhelmed by the prospect of ...
By Michael Peters
(Sydney, Australia)
A monochromatic colour scheme is one of the classics: all serene blue, or all sunny yellow, or all stately green. Monochromatic colour schemes are easy to balance, easy to live with, and ...
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