Exterior Paint Color Questions

Exterior Paint Color Questions

Exterior paint color questions that can be about choosing a color for the body, trim and accent areas of your home.

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• What color of wall paint will fit a brown roof? - The windows are surrounded with concrete hoods. Below the windows are embedded gray colored stones also surrounded same concrete hoods.
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• Doors and trim color with chocolate color house? - What color should I paint the trim color with a chocolate ice cream color house? The roof is green tin, the windows are white...I do not want white trim and am not real hot on a green door to math the roof.
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• Exterior paint color - Exterior wall paint colour that best matches beige/red metal roof colour?
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• Front door color. - My house is a beige color with a mocha brown trim. The front door is stained wood and I want to paint it. Not sure what color? Brick red? Burgandy? Forest Green? Not sure what will go best with the trim.
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• Exterior Door Color - We have just painted the siding a dark moss brown and have lighter brick with salmon and light brown/tan tones. We did the trim in a cement/off white color around the windows. New roof will be a color called resawn shake, which has dark and light...
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• What color house goes with a green composite roof? - I have a cream colored house with a green composite roof. I want to paint the house a darker color. Any suggestions? Thanks
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• Exterior Stain Color - Red brick front, gray shingle roof, brown windows and storm doors. Has stained clapboard siding. What color stain on the clapboards and trim would look good with this combination?
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• Trim with Brown Brick - The house that we are buying has dark brown brick. What trim colors do you suggest? I would like to lighten the color if possible.
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• Foundation Color - Med. tan colored siding and wood doors with large foundation of cement block. What color do you paint the block?
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• What is a good compliment to cream brick? - Our house is a cream colored brick with stucco outlining the windows. The roof is maroon/brown colored shingles and the front door is stained dark brown. What colors could we paint the house trim and window trim that would compliment the roof an...
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• Front door colour. - I have a white sided house with a green roof. What coulor should I paint my front door?
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• House Color Suggestions - I have a black roof on a two-story house, and the color of the stucco house and door is salmon with white trim. I would like some color suggestions for the house / door / trim to make the house stand out more. It is currently pretty 'bland' in c...
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• Exterior painting color. - I have a white house with black shutters. I want to add gingerbread trim but want to add a color like burgundy or cranberry. Will this look right?
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• What color should I paint the front door? - I have a dark red brick house with dark brown windows and cement trim above and below. There are concrete stairs and pillars at the front door with leaded glass and off white trim around the door. What color should I paint the front door?
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• Mansard roof color. - I have a design project coming up and the homeowner is requesting paint choices for a mansard roof. I visualize a blackish brown by Benjamin Moore called night horizon - may not be dark enough and then blend down to a softer tone - but not cream ...
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• Exterior Color of a Small House - I have a small 2 bedroom house and the exterior is all in masonite siding. Currently it a medium-light blue and I'm getting ready to change the color of it. My neighbors' houses are Green on on side, pale mauve on the other and one two houses down...
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• Foundation color - My house color is a barn red and the trim is khaki. Should I paint the cement foundation the kahki or barn red?
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• Trim Color - I have a Mocha Tan metal roof and white vinyl and tan/brown brick front of house. What would be the best trim color for the shutters and down-spouts?
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• Is it ok to use white primer under a different color? - I'm just painting the stoop by the front door. I bought a shade of brown for the color but I only have white primer. I'm not concerned what color brown it ends up. Is it OK to use the white primer? Both are latex.
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• Exterior Front Door - I want to repaint my front door black. Should it be high gloss or semi gloss. Also, there are so many blacks available what is a designers choice. My brick is light neutral reclaimed brick.
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• painting exterior doors black. - I would like to paint my exterior doors black. I have heard that you shouldn't paint doors with southern exposure black. Is there any truth to this?
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• What colours go best? - Do you think hacienda exterior walls will look ok with woodland grey guttering and roof the windows and screen doors either primrose or stone beige.
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• Best Exterior Color For a Quick Sale - What is the best exterior color to paint your house for a quick sale? What exterior paint color appeals to the largest number of home buyers?
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• Pros and cons of painting the house exterior a dark color. - We are undecided about an exterior house color. We have done test patches of two Benjamin Moore acrylic-latex paints: CC362-Elk (a taupe-beige) and HC 50-Georgian Brick (a dark, brownish-red). We quite like the "Georgian Brick", but have concer...
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• My exterior house color is cream, what would be the best color to paint the exteior door? - My exterior house color is cream, and I am wondering what the best color would be to paint the exterior door in order to go with the body of the house?
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