Our house desperately needs to be painted. We have hired painters and they start on Monday. That's the easy part. But we don't know what color to paint it! Surely some of our loyal blog readers are better at this than us?! Help?!
Here's what we know:
- Everything white is staying white.
- We have cherry wood blinds that you can see through the windows, so the colors need to coordinate with the white trim and cherry blinds.
- Our house looks really small from the front, and is set pretty far back from the street.
- There's a house painted a terrible yellow color two doors down, so I think we can't do yellow or we'll clash.
A little help for your home-design challenged friends? Please?
Here are some pics of our house (from before we bought it and when it didn't need a paint job so badly!)
11 comments:
How about a grey-blue, with dark blue (navy?) shutters?
International. Safety. Orange.
how about a really pale yellow?
I like Susan's suggestion, although I was thinking grey with purple tones. Also, I say ignore the neighbors. A clasic color combination for this style of house is a butter color with red shutters and white trim. You may not think the cherry blinds would look good with red shutters, but trust me.
I was thinking a blue might be nice. I like the grey-blue suggestion. I also like butter yellow. But I think you need to consider how you want to feel when you look at your house. (Think about coming home from a long business trip) When you imagine coming home, what color do you see? What makes you happy?
Why not repeat the exact color combo you have? It looks so good.
Oooh, I just saw a picture in a book with the grey house, white trim and marron shutters. That might work if you make sure the maroon doesn't clash with the blinds.
You want a lighter main color to make the house appear bigger. Like a pale sage green with dark hunter green or black shutters. That would be striking with the cherrywood.
OR pale mauve with dark grey & white trim. Like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/daily-bungalow/812445965/in/photostream/
I'd go with some fun colors. From the front, your house really has a cute bungalow look to it. Work with that!
thank you, thank you everyone for your ideas!! we're still not sure what we're going to do, but will have to decide in the next day or two. we'll put up some pics when it is done!
I am with Cart Cart - use the same colors, but maybe a red door? That is supposed to be really inviting...GrannyB
green green green!
or bright orange, because i know it's your favourite colour.
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