house color thread - copy the common look or slightly unique?

[Anonymous]

I am thinking of repainting our siding, door; and as a result our garage, trim and potentially shutters.

I walked my whole neighborhood and like a creeper I collected all of the paint colors!! Only took me twice around, which is my usual walk.

Should I attempt to blend in to the most common colors, or go with some unique colors, but still in the character of the neighborhood.

Extra comments:
Currently my house is one of the unique colors, original, getting drab.
I originally walked the neighborhood, was going to just write down a handful of house colors that I liked best. However, our house doesn’t have some of the same features as my favorite houses. So, it doesn’t work to copy.

[Anonymous]

Op here. When I say unique colors in the neighborhood, just know they’re also very very very classic. Nothing is like bright red or pink.

[Anonymous]

Do what you like and what goes well with the neighbors on either side.

[Anonymous]

Anything but white with black windows. I’m also tired of the dusty dark blue.

[Anonymous]

I like unique, but I’m very creative and don’t want to be the tenth house on a road in a shade of beige. I find that boring.

Plus it makes it easier to give people directions. “We’re the orange house on the left” is easier than “we’re the tenth beige house on the left”.

[Anonymous]

We have a bright blue house with lime trim one street over. Its painted brick. Looks cool.

[Anonymous]

As someone who is actually pestering DH to let me paint the siding on our house pink (it would honestly be amazing on our house), I say go unique! Pick what you like, not what everyone else is doing. Be the lady in red when everybody else is wearing tan.

[Anonymous]

If you're not a designer, I'd pick an inspiration house (whether from the internet or in person) and copy those colors. Getting house colors wrong is a really costly mistake.

[Anonymous]

I am really loving a brighter blue or dark gray - both with bright white trim and pop of color for the front door.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like unique, but I’m very creative and don’t want to be the tenth house on a road in a shade of beige. I find that boring.

Plus it makes it easier to give people directions. “We’re the orange house on the left” is easier than “we’re the tenth beige house on the left”.

The houses are numbered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like unique, but I’m very creative and don’t want to be the tenth house on a road in a shade of beige. I find that boring.

Plus it makes it easier to give people directions. “We’re the orange house on the left” is easier than “we’re the tenth beige house on the left”.

The houses are numbered.

Obviously. But when you're driving in an unfamiliar place it's easier to look for a large structure that's orange with blue shutters, than a small 69 above a mailbox, or wait, maybe it's on the other side of the front door, or maybe over the garage, or to the left of the garage, etc.

[Anonymous]

Op here. I tend to be a boring classic person.
Our old house was the tiniest bit pink tan. Ok well, sometimes it definitely looked pink. It was stucco. Burgundy-ish red door. The garage matched the house.
I painted it Greige with a Navy door. Painted garage a bright white (not white, but you know).

Currently we are a tan-yellow or a yellow-tan. We are the only ones in the neighborhood.

I just analyzed all of my data, and if I wanted to completely fit in, the highest #s are tan siding, white or light garage, black door, black shutters.

The more unique touches in the neighborhood:
-Siding with dual tones (side vs. shingle siding in front)
-White with a tinge of light blue - same exact unique layout as ours, and I hate their choice.
-Gray, sometimes looks darker blue
-gray with a tinge of green (ugly original)
-gray
-brown with a tinge of green

Doors
-turquoise
-tan
-light blue
-3 with cream, which I think I love
-bold robins egg
-3 with red

Shutters
-turquoise
-red
-brownish gray or grayish brown
-7 with wood of various shades

[Anonymous]

Pick what YOU like, whether that means standing out or blending in. I wouldn't personally worry about coordinating with the neighborhood unless a choice in that category is one you actually like or prefer anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. I tend to be a boring classic person.
Our old house was the tiniest bit pink tan. Ok well, sometimes it definitely looked pink. It was stucco. Burgundy-ish red door. The garage matched the house.
I painted it Greige with a Navy door. Painted garage a bright white (not white, but you know).

Currently we are a tan-yellow or a yellow-tan. We are the only ones in the neighborhood.

I just analyzed all of my data, and if I wanted to completely fit in, the highest #s are tan siding, white or light garage, black door, black shutters.

The more unique touches in the neighborhood:
-Siding with dual tones (side vs. shingle siding in front)
-White with a tinge of light blue - same exact unique layout as ours, and I hate their choice.
-Gray, sometimes looks darker blue *this is our neighbor, so I don't think we can do this, too much in one part of the street*
-gray with a tinge of green (ugly original)
-gray
-brown with a tinge of green

Doors
-turquoise
-tan
-light blue
-3 with cream, which I think I love
-bold robins egg
-3 with red

Shutters
-turquoise
-red
-brownish gray or grayish brown
-7 with wood of various shades

Op here. My comments and see highlight in bold:

Siding with dual tone I would only do with a designer. As I said above, this is siding on side is one thing; shingle siding on front is another. I love the look!
I can't do the gray that looks dark blue sometimes, because that is our neighbor. It's really pretty.

Some of the siding with dual tone combinations are:
gray and tan
gray and wood (shingle siding is wood)
grayish tan and dark gray
light tan and white
tan and brown
yellow and brown

Last note, I always love a red door; However.. I have been buying wreaths for a brown door (new house) and a navy door (old house) for several years...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. I tend to be a boring classic person.
Our old house was the tiniest bit pink tan. Ok well, sometimes it definitely looked pink. It was stucco. Burgundy-ish red door. The garage matched the house.
I painted it Greige with a Navy door. Painted garage a bright white (not white, but you know).

Currently we are a tan-yellow or a yellow-tan. We are the only ones in the neighborhood.

I just analyzed all of my data, and if I wanted to completely fit in, the highest #s are tan siding, white or light garage, black door, black shutters.

The more unique touches in the neighborhood:
-Siding with dual tones (side vs. shingle siding in front)
-White with a tinge of light blue - same exact unique layout as ours, and I hate their choice.
-Gray, sometimes looks darker blue
-gray with a tinge of green (ugly original)
-gray
-brown with a tinge of green

Doors
-turquoise
-tan
-light blue
-3 with cream, which I think I love
-bold robins egg
-3 with red

Shutters
-turquoise
-red
-brownish gray or grayish brown
-7 with wood of various shades

What about a sage/dusty green with black door and shutters, white garage? I love dark green for houses, but sounds like that would be out of place in your neighborhood. Our house is beige with very dark green shutters and door (beige garage door) and I love it - luckily, since it's HOA-dictated