Your house colors can enhance your landscape because often, house colors are chosen from the landscaping! Try pulling colors from the rock bed or brick surrounding your flower bed, or perhaps choose colors that really make your landscaping pop, such as classic grays against a green lawn!
Using a semi-transparent stain will bring out the color of wood and highlights the wood grain. You can also use a stain to hide blemishes in the wood, or even to simply protect the wood.
We’ve all been to a house that a different color on every wall. It’s stressful! Scientific studies have been conducted that show color affects your mood. The more colors, the chaos in a room. Further, the more colors in a single room, the smaller the room will look. Instead, try allowing the eye to “rest” […]
Sundried Tomato is a lovely red color. Bright enough to be vibrant, but dark enough to add a pop of color without it looking like something out of a circus tent. A red door is a bold and distinctive move that enhances black, white, or beige trim.
No shutters? No problem! Where to place your exterior accent color! Accent colors make your house pop but not everyone has shutters. Often we can accent your doors to make them pop and your house more individualized. Placing an accent color on your gables, vertical siding pieces, or posts on your porch add a little […]
Sometimes people ask our opinion on more than 3 colors on the exterior. We always tell them less color is always more. We have all seen the houses that have more than one body color, plus trim and accent. It simply looks too busy. Like there is too much going on. If you keep it […]
Color can be tricky when approached by a different light. What may look like a deep blue, may be more of gray-blue when sunlight hits that side of your house! The same can be said of interior painting. Different times of day can give your living room a different hue than in the morning light! […]
Pick colors that match with your brick by finding the colors within the brick that speak to you. Not all brick is JUST red, there are so many shades that can bring out the tones and accents within the brick that you like. Alternatively, instead of matching the brick, find a color that makes that […]
One challenge we’ve come across is picking colors when there is stone or brick in the picture. Here are a few tips to help pick the right color around stone or brick. If the brick/stone has red (or warm colors) always try to stick with warm colors. If the stone has blue, gray or other […]
Have you ever thought about using navy blue as an accent color? Navy blue is a great dark color that can be used as an accent color. Not as bold and bring as reds, yellows or teals but also not as dark and bland as blacks or charcoal grays. We think it’s a great choice […]
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