In this post, we're sharing a few of our most used exterior paint colors and a few more that we love and want to incorporate in the future. Read more here.
Follow our steps for how to choose the right exterior paint colors and avoid these common mistakes when choosing exterior paint color combinations.
Want to paint your home and hoping to stay ahead of trends? Check out our list of the 15 best Benjamin Moore exterior paint colors for 2022.
In this post, we're sharing a few of our most used exterior paint colors and a few more that we love and want to incorporate in the future. Read more here.
We painted the exterior of our house! Literally every square inch got a fresh coat of paint minus the roof. Come see the full reveal and everything that went into my biggest project yet!
The South's top architects share their best exterior paint color combinations for your home. Find the palette that will make your house sing.
Looking for exterior paint color ideas that go with brick homes? These 10 amazing exterior paint colors will complement a brick home perfectly.
Check out our designers' definitive list of the best exterior house colors 2023 has to offer, from Benjamin Moore and Sherwin Williams.
Loving this 2020 trend of dark exterior paint colors. Bold exterior color schemes can help add curb appeal to any home. Check out these 13 dark painted exterior homes that bring a little drama to the neighborhood. We’re considering painting our house this year. When we moved in 9 years ago, it was an awful...
Looking for the best white or cream paint color for your house exterior? Try 15 Best White Paint Colors For Brick Exteriors by thetarnishedjewelblog.com.
Exterior paint for your home or new build can be overwhelming. Explore how to choose exterior paint color combinations in a few steps.
Painting your home's exterior? Check out our roundup of the best Sherwin Williams exterior paint colors for 2023.
We're back with another I Design, You Decide for the mountain fixer. We've spent most of our time indoors, so let's move outside and pick some paint colors.
When you want to spruce up the exterior of your home and boost your home's curb appeal, these stunning, yet unexpected exterior paint colors will transform your home.
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These are the best Sherwin Williams exterior paint colors for 2021, reflecting the two main home style trends we're seeing this year.
These are the best exterior paint colors for red brick homes, and how to use them. We recommend four colors and different ways to use them.
Are you looking for a weatherboard paint colour? I get asked often about my own house (further down) and so I went searching for other options to show you today. Of course these colours don’t have to be limited to...
Check out the Stiffkey Blue No. 281 Paint in Paint, Paint & Wallpaper from Farrow & Ball for 99.
Painting the exterior of your home is a big decision. Unlike painting your kitchen, there is no room for mistakes when changing the color of your home’s facade—it’s an expensive endeavor that should last for decades and create curb appeal that will be visible to all passersby. Yardzen’s new exterior... Read more »
A complete list of my favorite Sherwin Williams paint colors, complete with photos and a color palette as a guide!
Stay with us to discover our 2021 exterior paint favorites from Benjamin Moore that we'll be reaching to time and time again this year.
We're back with another I Design, You Decide for the mountain fixer. We've spent most of our time indoors, so let's move outside and pick some paint colors.
Sherwin Williams Natural Choice is a warm-leaning white paint color. Explore SW 7011, undertones, color pairings + see pics in 19 homes!
It’s happening, everyone! We’re really doing it, Har! The painters are here, the wood rot is coming down, the hammers are flying. We are finally taking our sweet peach Colonial and painting it white! Goodbye dinge. Goodbye peach house (that Jackson calls orange…is it orange? Oh my gosh, are we living in an orange house?) […]
Learn all about Sherwin-Williams Oyster White in this color review. This stunning white paint color can be used for exteriors or interiors.
Last week, when I talked about the 6 projects we'll be tackling in the next six months, one of them was windows and the other big ones involved the living room and our new dining/entertaining
Loving this 2020 trend of dark exterior paint colors. Bold exterior color schemes can help add curb appeal to any home. Check out these 13 dark painted exterior homes that bring a little drama to the neighborhood. We’re considering painting our house this year. When we moved in 9 years ago, it was an awful...
Picking an exterior paint color for your house can feel overwhelming so we've put together 5 steps that will help you narrow it down!
When I was selecting the colors for our home, I spent hours researching. I wanted to find colors that were warm and inviting but also felt modern. I didn’t want the white to be too white or the shutters to...Read More
The most popular exterior house paint colors that will instantly up your curb appeal
PHOTO SOURCE when we bought our house and moved in back in november, one of the first things we did was have a painter come out to give us a quote because i haaaaated the yellow beige color. sadly with el niño coming, he said to wait till the late spring to paint, so we lived with it … Continue reading "how to choose an exterior paint color"
When you want to spruce up the exterior of your home and boost your home's curb appeal, these stunning, yet unexpected exterior paint colors will transform your home.
i am here to say that we are (mostly) finished painting the exterior of our house and we both have lived to tell about it. we still have a few high points of trim to finish up and the chimney, which will probably take an entire day in of itself. the chimney is a whole different and dangerous situation that i will get into later. but besides that, this house is done! the photo above is what the house looked like when we moved in almost 4 years ago. we aren't sure what the original color is because it has faded so badly and our HOA doesn't have record of the color schemes. we think it was some sort of gray but overtime it has started to look purple. and because i'm not a huge fan of purple houses we decided to change it up and go with a shade of blue-gray. deciding to do this job ourselves came after a few houses in our neighborhood had received quotes from $3500-$5000. and since we have a few other backyard projects that i want to do this year, i wanted to save our budget and try to spread it out between the 3. after a lot of research, calculations, and talking to some professionals, we built up enough confidence to do it ourselves. ^^^ the house the day we started painting. paint: we decided on sherwin williams since we had heard and read they were the best of the best. we went with their top of the line for the front (emerald) and were told with the harsh west sun we get on the front of our house, we can expect the paint to last about 10-12 years. that was totally worth it to us. plus, by then we'll have 3 grown boys who can help with the next round :) the sides and back was their duration line, just a step below emerald. we figured we could save some pennies by going a step down since the rest of the house doesn't receive the same amount of heat. russell simply measured with a good 'ol fashion tape measure to calculate our square footage- we ended up with two gallons for the front and 7 gallons for the rest of the house. grand total on paint, including our 40% off coupon- $433. (sign up on SW website and every now and then you'll receive a 40% off coupon. we got our coupon in february so we went ahead and bought all our paint then. we hadn't decided on our colors yet, though. SW told us to bring our paint in later and they would still tint them at no charge.) update: after talking to some local painters they actually suggest we NOT use emerald if your house has flaking paint, but instead stick with duration. our home was completely faded, not flaking. they said the emerald paint was so strong in adhering to the house that if your old paint was flaking, the emerald paint would continue to pull the it off over time. our final choices- gibraltar for the front & morning fog for the sides & back. 2 weeks before we were set to paint russell went out and pressure washed the entire house. we had read up to 30 days prior to painting is fine. however, we never considered pollen season. we had to do some extra cleaning the morning of, but it ended up not being too much of a big deal. i began caulking the week before in the areas i could reach with my ladder and russell filled in the gaps in the evenings when he got home from work. the other big expense we decided to splurge on was renting a 50ft lift. the sides of our house stand around 36 feet and even with the tallest ladder, we were pushing the limits of how far russell could reach. and for his safety we thought it was well worth the $250. it also made painting go faster as he didn't have to keep climbing up and down the ladder. we had also planned to replace some of our trim because we had assumed that some of it would have been rotted. we got lucky and didn't find any rot but we did have flaking paint that needed to be peeled, sanded, and primed. had we found rot it would have been replaced, adding to our budget. i will admit that at this point i began freaking out. the sides of the house were supposed to be gray. not blue. and when the peak of sunshine hit the side of the house it looked baby blue. we discovered the time of day made a big difference on how the color looked. russell and i discussed tossing the paint and starting over, which of course russell was totally against. in fact, he may have laughed and said i can use the rest of our budget to hire someone to redo it. ha! i guess there really wasn't much of a discussion then, haha. ultimately, no matter what color we chose, one side of the house was going to look different than the other even though they were the same color. i decided to keep it and see how it turned out once finished. i'm one of those that has to see things on a grand scale and not by small paint samples. now that it's done i don't see it as much as a baby blue as i do blue/gray. and over the weeks i have come to really like it. we were really hoping this lift would have reached the chimney, but it couldn't get around our roof line. russell is planning on wearing a harness and climbing up the roof to paint. however, if he gets up there and decides it's too risky we have no problem calling in the professionals. if you are wondering where all of our plants went that were once up against the house, we transplanted them with the intent to expand our patio. years later we are finally getting around to it. one of the other projects planned for this summer is to lay additional concrete to give us more patio space. and we are hoping (if we aren't too far in over our heads already) to also add a pergola. overall, this project took us about 3 weeks of painting to finish. we had a deadline to get it done in half that time before russell left for a work trip to africa. but because of rain and wind, we were pushed back to when russell returned home. then throw in easter weekend and then more rain. i think we easily could have pushed this out in 4 days but i had to watch the kids while russell painted, only being able to help when gatlin napped and at other random miscellaneous times. we divided the house and i was responsible for all the lower half, saving russell about 1/3 of time. i am here to tell you that if you are thinking of painting the outside of your house, you can definitely do it. with strategic planning and research, and if you have the basic concept of how to paint and repair, it can certainly be done. our grand total spent was around $800. that's $2,700 savings from the cheapest $3500 quote. and in 10 years, sherwin williams will see us again ready for round two. with 3 additional family helpers ;) update: we had two painters come out and quote us for our chimeny. one quoted $500 and they would purchase the remaining paint. and the other $300 and we provide the paint. each one said it would have been half the price if it wasn't such a steep and dangerous job. we had them paint it in less than an hour and our home was complete.
These are the homes shortlisted as finalists in the 2018 Dulux Colour Awards
Hi there friends! Have you heard the news?! Green is back!!! Last year it was the "it" color, we saw it go from soft to sultry, on walls, cabinetry, furnishings, art and accessories. This year it's still on trend and make no mistake about it, it's not your mother's forest green. As I write this I still can't believe a. it's back in and b. I am liking it! My mom fancied "the green" and she used it in every, single room at one point, yikes!!! This classic color has gotten a fresh new persona with it's neutral sensibility and style adaptability, so I for one am going to give it a try.
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Follow our steps for how to choose the right exterior paint colors and avoid these common mistakes when choosing exterior paint color combinations.
Follow our steps for how to choose the right exterior paint colors and avoid these common mistakes when choosing exterior paint color combinations.
Want to paint your home and hoping to stay ahead of trends? Check out our list of the 15 best Benjamin Moore exterior paint colors for 2022.
