Those with a creative eye....help with house colors

[monica9]

we have the most obnoxious exterior house colors. The woman who lived there before obviously loved the color peach because it was all over our house inside and out.
We are painting our exterior brick, shutters and door.
These are the colors we are thinking. We will also be doing a stone wall around our bushes and getting a gable which will be white. We are keeping all of our trim and accents white.
Here are some pictures.
One is of our ugly house and the brown roof
The riverway color (greenish blue)will be the shutters and door
The worldly grey color will be the brick paint.

Think this will be ok and with the color of our roof?
Any suggestions are definitely welcome!
I’ll post the pictures in the thread

 

[monica9]

 

[monica9]

 

[monica9]

I can’t upload my house/roof picture. It’s saying file is too big and I don’t know how to make it smaller to send it.
It’s a lighter brown

 

[lorimay]

Peach was a 90's color for sure!
Our old house built in '98 had a peach exterior.
Like your modern color choices!

 

[monica9]

Here’s our house. Yikes. So with that roof color would those colors look ok? It’s so hard for us to take the step to purchase the paint. We aren’t good at seeing the final picture in our heads!

 

[cabanafrau]

Can I ask if there's any reason you're painting the brick beyond possibly not liking the look of it?

Personally I'd think long and hard about committing to an ongoing, expensive modification like painting brick.

 

[jaybirdsmommy]

My advice - go get a couple of paint samples and smear some on the shutters and brick. That way you can actually see how it will look. It's hard to tell from paint chips and some colors will look very different when you actually put them on the surface you're painting.

 

[jaybirdsmommy]

Can I ask if there's any reason you're painting the brick beyond possibly not liking the look of it?

Personally I'd think long and hard about committing to an ongoing, expensive modification like painting brick.

I agree, but based on what's going on here, it seems to be the "thing" to do.

 

[monica9]

I agree, but based on what's going on here, it seems to be the "thing" to do.

Can you explain. I’m not sure what that means.

 

[monica9]

Can I ask if there's any reason you're painting the brick beyond possibly not liking the look of it?

Personally I'd think long and hard about committing to an ongoing, expensive modification like painting brick.

I understand it will be a lot of maintenance but we just can’t look at that brick anymore. It’s been 4 years and we are ready for a change and don’t want to re-brick it so we’ve thought long and hard about painting it. Now we have to figure out the color.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

It's hard to imagine in separate pictures, but I'm not sure about the gray with blue/green, and a brown roof. It would probably look better with a gray toned roof.

I would also be concerned about the upkeep of the painting over brick.

 

[jaybirdsmommy]

Can you explain. I’m not sure what that means.

Sorry, all I meant was that it seems to be the trend these days to paint over brick houses. I don't care for it, but I also don't live in your house so I don't get a say so.

One word of advice, though, make sure when the painting is done that they remove the shutters and paint under them. There's a house on a very busy street here that obviously skipped that step. One of their shutters fell down 6 months ago and exposed a big, bare spot underneath. I don't know why they haven't put it back up yet.

 

[monica9]

Sorry, all I meant was that it seems to be the trend these days to paint over brick houses. I don't care for it, but I also don't live in your house so I don't get a say so.

One word of advice, though, make sure when the painting is done that they remove the shutters and paint under them. There's a house on a very busy street here that obviously skipped that step. One of their shutters fell down 6 months ago and exposed a big, bare spot underneath. I don't know why they haven't put it back up yet.

Oh ok. I just really wasn’t sure what you meant. We aren’t big on painting brick either but I feel we have no choice at this point. We just don’t like looking at our house.

 

[jaybirdsmommy]

Oh ok. I just really wasn’t sure what you meant. We aren’t big on painting brick either but I feel we have no choice at this point. We just don’t like looking at our house.

I totally understand, and honestly a lot of the houses that have done it look nice afterwards. I'm just lazy and don't care for the added maintenance.

With the brown roof, have you considered replacing the vinyl shutters with some wooden ones with a natural stain? I can't tell from the picture how many windows you have or whether it's a 1 or 2 story house but a natural wood might go better than the greenish color (which is pretty, I like it a lot, just not sure about putting it with the brown). Something like this:

If you're handy, there are a ton of tutorials for the shutters on pinterest.

 

[Searc]

Honestly, I don't think any of those colors go with or even coordinate with a brown roof.

 

[monica9]

I totally understand, and honestly a lot of the houses that have done it look nice afterwards. I'm just lazy and don't care for the added maintenance.

With the brown roof, have you considered replacing the vinyl shutters with some wooden ones with a natural stain? I can't tell from the picture how many windows you have or whether it's a 1 or 2 story house but a natural wood might go better than the greenish color (which is pretty, I like it a lot, just not sure about putting it with the brown). Something like this:

If you're handy, there are a ton of tutorials for the shutters on pinterest.

This is exactly what our house looks like but the gable will be smaller. My husband suggested exactly this thing. He wants wooden shutters with the river way color door.

 

[piccolopat]

Print out the picture of your home with the roof and then use the paint samples to overlay the areas to be painted. That should help you envision the final product. My guess is that while it might not be ideal with the color of your roof, it will still look good.

 

[jaybirdsmommy]

This is exactly what our house looks like but the gable will be smaller. My husband suggested exactly this thing. He wants wooden shutters with the river way color door.

I like the way he thinks, the turquoise door is too bright for that house, but that River color would be perfect.

 

[Darcy03231]

With a brown roof I'd go with a cream/light tan for the house color and the blue/green for the shutters if you're stuck on that color. If not, I'd do the cream/light tan for the house color and a dark green, navy or cranberry color for the shutters.