Friday, March 22, 2019

Exterior Colors - Examples

Update 3/24: Light green is emerging as the direction. This house (12036 9th Ave.)  illustrates the vertical siding over horizontal shiplap, in green, with brick:



Example M
It also shows what white eaves, fascia and gutter looks like on a black composition shingle roof.

Is that a two-tone? Or does the shiplap reflect more of the sky? SW 6435 Gratifying Green is lighter than Example M. Maybe SW 6436 Bonsai Tint? Maybe I ask my neighbors (we met at a block party last year, but they're not on Nextdoor).

Update 3/24/19: I asked my neighbor, Mark, and he told me. He used Sherwin-Williams Duration paint. SW matched a Behr color called Still Grey. The eaves and fascia are a Behr color called Tinsmith. His house was built, along with its neighbor to the south, in 1955, but it's the same mid-band molding as mine. While the neighbor is vertical T&G like mine, Mark's is actually a striated board without v-grooves. Mark did 10 different color samples and took several days to decide on Still Grey, by the way. His flush front door color is from the same card as Still Grey, two shades darker. Mark's eaves, by the way, are exactly like mine.

Peggy had a couple of houses with something like Gratifying Green:

Example E

Example I

Peggy's examples from Sierra Madre:
Example A

Example B

Example C

Example D


Example F

Example G

Example H
Alastair's examples from Broadview:
Example J

Example K

Example L



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