Unlocking Exterior Charm: Choosing the Perfect Color Palette for Your New England Home’s Exterior Feature

Are you searching for the best door color for your home? Curious how to select your trim color? Wondering what to do with your shutters?

We have you covered! If you’d like guidance on which color palettes will enhance the overall aesthetic of your home, CertaPro Painters^® of Andover, MA offers professional color consulting services. Our experienced consultants can assist you in choosing the best colors for your doors, trim, and shutters ensuring that they complement your home’s style and create a stunning visual impact.

Please read on for tips, tools, and strategies for selecting colors that will make your home shine.

Trim

Trim Color – Trim includes molding around your door frame, windows, garage doors and other parts of your home, the soffits and fascia on your roof, and any other paintable architectural feature.

-Your trim should be two to three times lighter or darker than your siding color. When your trim and siding color are too close in color, your home loses the color contrast needed to create a polished look.

-Exceptions to this guideline include historical or traditional homes that are painted white with the same white trim. We also see more modern architecture that is sometimes painted the same dark gray, for example, for both siding and trim.

-Historical homes often look great with off-white or cream trim depending on siding, stonework, or brick color. Off-whites and creams complement beiges, warm grays, charcoals, blues, sage greens, and warm reds in a charming way.

-White trim is a classic choice and works well with cool grays, blue-grays, pale and dark blue, yellows, greens, and whites.

Doors

Door Color – Doors and shutters are often painted the same color. This is a classic choice, but if you’d like to add a pop of color to your home, your front door is a good place to do that. Hint: If you don’t like it or get tired of it, you can always repaint it!

-You’ll want to consider your siding color, brick, or stone color when choosing your door color. Make sure all colors on the front of your home are cohesive – meaning that they look like they belong together.

-Jewel tones are a classic choice for a front door. Jewel tones include red, deep teal, forest green, navy, purple, orange, and yellow.

-You could also consider a pastel such as blush pink or pale turquoise.

-Black and charcoal doors are a classic look on homes with a black or charcoal roof.

Not sure what colors would work on your front door? Look at the colors inside your home for inspiration. Google front door colors or search Pinterest. You’ll quickly find a few that you like. Then get samples and test them out.

Shutters

Shutter Color – If you have shutters on your home, here are some guidelines for making sure your shutters are a visual asset.

-Make sure your shutter colors relate to your roof color. They don’t need to be the same color, but they need to look like they go together. For example, I recently saw a yellow home with gray shutters and a brown roof. Dark brown shutters might have been a better choice because they would have related to the roof.

-If you have a black or charcoal roof, black shutters are a classic, timeless look.

-If your home is painted white, painting your shutters white will give your home more of a cottage or coastal look and feel.

-If your home is an earthy brick or stone, you’ll want to select a shutter color that relates to it. Most likely, that will be beige, cream, or brown.

-If your home is red brick, black or brown shutters will create a classic look. Match your shutters to your roof color.

Selecting colors can be overwhelming because there are so many options and every home is different. If you’d like guidance on which color palettes will give your home a polished, cohesive look, we’d be happy to help. CertaPro Painters^® of Andover, MA offers complimentary color consultations with each painting project.

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