It is time to paint. And speaking of the colors of your new home … What exterior colors are you planning to use?
Is it for a complete refinish of your home or other building, or maybe adding a few accents to add a touch of “twist” to your existing color scheme? Even a home with a subtle and conservative color palette can benefit from a little adjustment.
To provide a little help, here are some tips (well, 13 tips in total) for individual homeowners and construction professionals.
When you start thinking about colors to paint your existing house, a renovation or a new construction …
Owners
From a small Cape Cod-style home to a Victorian mansion, your best color options are the ones you carefully consider.
- Assess the current condition of your siding, eaves, other trim, and architectural details.
- Porches are a great place to introduce new colors: floors, ceilings, and trim.
- Alcoves, alcoves, window seats – all are candidates for minor revisions with color and shine.
- Even houses with fewer architectural details will be more elegant and distinctive with the right color additions.
- Planning some landscaping? Coordinate your home’s color with property updates.
Builders: single-family or a development
Build a single spec house or an entire neighborhood? There is a lot to consider when it comes to color.
- It is not necessary to manufacture multiple adjacent houses with the same color schemes.
- The colors you use have a lot to say to the buyers you attract and about them.
- The best color plan will include all your building materials to create the most interesting and attractive properties.
- Color is the first thing your customers will notice. Make it count!
Now may be the time to expand your own horizons of color.
- You can break away from the typical “3 color” format for your home.
- Try a 5-color palette, even in a simpler structure. It will look more interesting.
- Keep the colors of your house in harmony with its surroundings, appropriate for the architecture of your own house and in the neighborhood. They are all important.
- The key is to use the right colors in the right places, where fancy and imaginative colors will enhance a simple-framed home, as well as one with multiple architectural elements and trim.
Sometimes it helps to see what your house or other building will look like before painting! One way is with services like Designer Color Palettes, which use colors that you may have already selected, but want to see what they will look like. There are other options too.
