Need advice on what color to paint the siding/shutters/trim/gutters.
I have a few colors picked out but I need to know if I am headed in the right direction.
Shutters: black
Siding/trim/gutters: a warm beige color
Pictures taken 2/2007 prior to moving day...
Front door...I would L-O-V-E a new front door and glass door.
west side of house, we have removed ALL of these bushes
south side of the house
west side/south side
west side, driveway view/front door view
west side, again
north side, bushes have been removed, crazy flower box has been removed...all of this has uncovered the air conditioning unit which is now surrounded by a white lattice fence (which needs to be smaller but it works for now)
front door view, outside light needs to be updated
another front door view
another front door view
This is a web-site that I found that sells wrought iron things. I L-O-V-E this monogram with house numbers...we will probably be doing something similiar.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://ironworkshome.com/library/HouseNumbers1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://ironworkshome.com/entry.html&usg=__hTIQy7RjRJbuuNtnFJCkTtUKAk4=&h=480&w=361&sz=49&hl=en&start=4&um=1&tbnid=2QlCTfgScdsTjM:&tbnh=129&tbnw=97&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpictures%2Bof%2Bhouse%2Bnumbers%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX
So here is where your wonderful advice comes in you wonderful friends and family. We have lived here 1.5 years now and it is getting time to start on the outside. :)
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://ironworkshome.com/library/HouseNumbers1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://ironworkshome.com/entry.html&usg=__hTIQy7RjRJbuuNtnFJCkTtUKAk4=&h=480&w=361&sz=49&hl=en&start=4&um=1&tbnid=2QlCTfgScdsTjM:&tbnh=129&tbnw=97&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpictures%2Bof%2Bhouse%2Bnumbers%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX
So here is where your wonderful advice comes in you wonderful friends and family. We have lived here 1.5 years now and it is getting time to start on the outside. :)
Thanks for your help!
2 comments:
Hey Rachel Annie.
I had a milisecond to be on the computer and visited your site. I love your site. I want to get one going for us but have to find the time...
I love the wrought iron idea (of course, it's rustic and old.) And the warm beige for trim, guttering, etc. is good. I'm not sold on the black shutters. Just seems too dark to me. But I've never been good with the whole color scheme thing. Aunt Janet would be the one to help you with that. She always has great ideas. I'll make sure she knows about your site.
Keep up the good work with your site. I love keeping track of you all this way. Since my phone seems to have that magnetic shield which keeps me from making phone calls often.
Love you all,
Aunt Kelly
on January 4, 2009 at 4:44 pm bmeglis
Hi Rachel,
Great blog! As for your house, I suggest a tan/camel siding color rather than gray even though your roof is gray. The brick will look so much warmer with a yellow based neutral, something like DutchBoy’s Basketweave (or one of the many others). You can keep the trim the same color as the siding and move to an off-white window trim. Or you can keep the white trim on the house and stick with white windows. Either way will work. It looks like you live in a warm climate, but if you have a chance to darken the roof just a little, that will help with contrast between roof and siding. But the pitch of your roof is so slight that I wouldn’t let the roof color dictate your house color. Go warm.
Hope that helps.
-Barbara
Your Home & Color Coach
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