The Color Recession
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Yeah, yellow I like. Mustard not so much. It was very popular in interiors in the 90s and 2000s. That and gold. Now they look like avocado green and harvest gold.
I love yellow and white on a more traditional house like the one Steve posted.
Ours is now Woodland, a Sherwin William green. Looks gray in this pic but it's not. We finally like it after being New England Red and then some awful taupe color.
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@bernard what about red? I love this look:
I don't want to do red because the house across the street is red, and the house down the road is red. I like historic reds, but not bright reds on house exteriors. I think bright works quite well in coastal areas.
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@Steve-Miller Interesting thought, but I don't know if my house is big enough for base color, trim color, and yet a third color.
I looked at the picture of your house again, and I noticed that the siding on the gable is different than the siding on the rest of the house. The builder went to some amount of work to do that.
Why not highlight it?
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I looked at the picture of your house again, and I noticed that the siding on the gable is different than the siding on the rest of the house. The builder went to some amount of work to do that.
Why not highlight it?
@Steve-Miller Yeah, that's a good point. I haven't really thought about it. I will give it some thought. Hm.
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No design advice here; I'm a total disaster at picking colors. But I do have a question..
Darker colors retain heat more, and lighter colors reflect. Might the choice of a particular color, light vs dark, affect the interior temperature of the house in a way that's undesirable? So many factors influence what feels comfortable in the house. If you have lots of deciduous trees that keep you cool in summer, then maybe a darker color to retain heat in the winter would be good. Or maybe you have not a lot of tree protection and need to keep things cool in the summer.
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