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To keep the color scheme low-key and minimalist, shutters and windows were painted a neutral yellow shade that nearly blends in with the stonework. For a bit of warmth and as an accent, a medium-tone stain warms the front door. Complement beige exterior trim and natural stonework with warm shades of green. Hunter-green shutters and shake shingles stand out against this home's soft sage-green siding.
An all-neutral palette looks particularly polished when accented with hits of black. To give your beige exterior a more sophisticated feel, try painting the shutters and front door black. Use white on the trim and other exterior elements so the look is crisp and clean instead of one-note. Cottage-style homes are amenable to an exterior color scheme that's less bounded by formal rules and freer to experiment with whimsical approaches to shade and pattern. Here, the first impulse might be to paint the section of the front facade above the door line the same color as the bottom half.
Pale Yellow
The combination of paint colors on your siding, trim, front door, and other exterior elements sets the tone before you even step foot inside. Learn how to decide which exterior colors go together and how to pick hues that work for your home's style and architecture. As a homeowner and interior designer, I know many people decide to paint and refresh their interiors before spring arrives, and if that’s the case with you, you’re in the right place.
A neutral exterior color that works well for a wide range of house styles. We do not have any exterior fans but we have talked about doing that. It would be great to have some airflow on the porch with our hot humid Georgia Summers! If I added some, I would probably do white ones to blend with our porch ceiling. There are some pretty new styles & colors of fans on the market now, so lots more choices. I think the wicker ones are pretty and add a “Deep South” look.
White + Black + Red
This Berkshires home designed by Crisp Architects is washed in a barely there blue-gray-violet hue that subs in for classic white, adding a bit of nuance to the facade. White Sands Design Build chose a soft neutral off-white without gray or yellow undertones to complement the Moorish facade of this 1929 bungalow in Manhattan Beach, CA. This Mediterranean-style home from Fantastic Frank is softened with pale salmon pink paint complemented with delicate sage green exterior wood shutters and doors that look like they've faded naturally in the sun. Designer Stephanie Zaharias of Zaharias Design used a color-matched stucco in an off-white shade with gray undertones for the exterior of this home in California’s Silicon Valley. The color was selected to complement the gray-stained cedar on the exterior’s second level. This Mediterranean-style house in Los Angeles is covered in an off-white mixed with green that softens the look and coordinates with the front door and landscaping.
The siding has remained the same color since we bought our home. When we decided to use Behr Deckoverfor the porch floor color, I didn’t find a color I liked for our siding, so we used a Rustoleum Restore color and Home Depot mixed it in the Behr Deckover formula. You can read about the product on an older post I wrote here and a year later updatehere.
Living Well Collection
Green garage doors continue the nature-inspired color palette, while copper light fixtures pick up the amber hues of the surrounding stone. Many people equate contemporary homes with a limited exterior color palette. But modern-style homes offer inspiration for a diverse way to showcase color and pattern, even if the palette is fairly neutral. If you're building new or remodeling your exterior, consider all the shapes and sizes of brick as a way to create an accent feature, rather than relying solely on paint for adding color.
As with exterior wood paint colors, it's best to sample the stain on a swath of exterior wall to see how the color looks and feels throughout the day. For more classically styled homes, white is a traditional accent for window trim, pillars, and doors. You can add interest to an exterior color scheme without using brightly colored paint colors.
Swan White is the paint color choice for trim and doors throughout the HGTV 2016 Dream Home plus a couple of rooms and the exterior. This cozy Costa Mesa, CA home from K Shan Design is painted in two shades of blue that make the facade and front porch feel homey and inviting. This contemporary Denver, CO home from Fantastic Frank is softened with a coat of off-white paint with beige undertones that complement the eco-friendly landscaping.
Earthy beige coats most of this home's facade, but a fire-engine red front door bucks the trend. If you're looking to quickly switch up your exterior color scheme, a new front door color is one of the easiest makeover ideas. When working with an existing color palette, consider the undertones and color family already used within the facade. For example, this slightly cooler red, rather than one that leans orange, plays nicely with the cool undertones of the beige brick and siding. Iron Ore is one of our favorite top exterior paint colors for 2016 because it lends itself to such creativity.
White trim adds contrast and a gray slate roof is the perfect complement. Here are some wide ranging exterior paint color ideas on a variety of houses in a range of styles and settings that will give you some inspiration for choosing a paint color for your home. Materials used on a home's exterior often supply a built-in base for a color scheme. For example, brick exteriors tend to take on a warmer, red hue. This limestone facade offers a base that's in tune with both the home's architecture and the natural landscape.
Martha O'Hara Interiors used clean off-white paint to give this modern farmhouse-style new build a classic feel. This 1930s Tudor revival home in Boise, ID has a storybook allure. Paint designer Annie Sloan used two shades of mood-boosting yellow on the red brick exterior of this Victorian U.K. Home that brings on the sunshine in any weather and gives the historic facade with its stunning stained glass doors a cheerful and vibrant lift.
Mindy Gayer Design Co. collaborated with Dana Webber Design Group and Fairbank Construction Company to build this Puget Sound vacation home. The front entryway to the home is defined by warm off-white paint that gives the sprawling facade some dimension and contrasts with the darker siding and mixed tone wood accents. This brick house from A Beautiful Mess has a painted satin white exterior and a blushing pink door, with cacti lining the entry steps that adds some greenery and visual interest to the facade. Randell Design Group used pre-weathered zinc cladding in a soft shade of gray on the exterior of this U.K. House, combined with gray brick for a textural feel that looks modern and complements the lush green lawn.
Most paint companies should be able to perfectly color-match this shade or any other one you like. Caruso likes this classic off-white color because of its adaptability. “It provides a warm brightness in the depths of a Northern winter and a sense of cool calmness in the blazing heat of a Southern summer,” she says. Architectural designer Richard Bubnowski used a color-matched stain in a creamy off-white shade to cover the western red cedar shingles on this New Jersey home near the shore. Jessica Bennett is an editor, writer, and former digital assistant home editor at BHG.
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