Choose the Perfect Exterior Paint Color for Your Brick, NJ Home

While some homeowners are terrified of a new exterior paint job, others are excited with the prospect of a new scheme and feel for their home. Quite often, the color a home is purchased with remains for several years or a decade or more. If you’re thrilled at the prospect of combining your personality into your house color, here’s how to choose the perfect exterior paint color for your New Jersey home.

Even the most exciting painting prospects can quickly become overwhelmed with the paint chips and color combinations in the paint aisle. The sheer amount of possible combinations is anxiety-inducing. Avoid the stress and start with these tips.

Neighborhoods

Rather than start staring at thousands of paint chips, begin outside. Walk or drive around neighborhoods with houses in the same style as yours. While it won’t give you an exact paint palette, you will get good ideas of what you like and don’t.

Always keep in mind that governing bodies might have the official sign off on any exterior color choices. Your colors could be subject to an HOA or local government’s seal of approval. Once you have ideas of what colors you’re leaning toward, research with these bodies to make sure you are within their guidelines.

Styles

House styles can also lend themselves to particular colors. A trendy new modern home might not work well with a traditional color scheme and vice versa. Imagine an old victorian home with a trendy, monochromatic gray paint job. Some colors just don’t fit particular house styles.

Geography

Our landscape and temperatures lend themselves to colors that might not work in the rest of the world. While we are somewhat seaside, the sun isn’t as leaching on our colors as it is further south. This means deep colors like charcoal work as well as barely blue. Remember when looking at colors to consider your bushes, flowers and shrubbery that may or may not be blooming right now.

Colorscape

Our color consultants recommend you come up with a three-color pairing you’d like to see on your home. This consists of 70% of your home being the main color, 20% in an accent color, and 10% as a pop of color. For practical application, think of it this way. Paint your home off white, use a charcoal or navy blue for trim and shutters, then add a red pop of color to the front door.

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Even with these recommendations, choosing colors can be difficult. CertaPro Painters has color consultants on hand to help you with your choices. The first step to getting started with a new exterior paint color for your New Jersey home is call us! Schedule a free estimate appointment with our crew today.