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[rmd]

hello, and welcome to petty upper-middle-class first world problems!

i'm angsting about color for when they paint my porch in a few days.

i'm poking around on the benjamin moore website to look at exterior colors.

if you go to benjaminmoore.com and follow the trail of menu through "for your home" to "personal color viewer", you probably end up someplace like here. if you then select "home exterior" and photo 5, you end up with something kind of like my house. and while i'm not going to have the huge accent color they've got on the main front of the house, it's a reasonable place to play around with colors.

there's an accent color on the rest of the house that looks to be close to nottingham green (at least it looks it on my monitor), so i'll be using that for at least a bit of detailing so that it'll tie the porch in with the rest of the house.

the bulk of the house is white, so i'm thinking i'd like to keep the main siding white.

but i'd like one or maybe even two other accent colors -- one to put on the porch decking, and maybe one for the bannisters or perhaps just a bit of accent on the newell posts.

any suggestions? (you can use color name or number)

Comments

[scottro.livejournal.com]

Ah, got it.

Do you live in the Bay area? it looks like you do from the pictures. If so, I would go with a nice blue shade, somewhere between the sky and the sea.

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[rmd.livejournal.com]

i live in somerville, ma, which is right outside boston.

i was thinking a medium to light blue as a minor accent, and then maybe a dark green for the decking and some accent.

[scottro.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's right. Wrong coast. I suck.

I think it would look really nice with those colors.

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[evwhore.livejournal.com]

But Massachusetts is the Bay State, so partial credit.