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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

[solarbird]

Oh! I didn't know you were making it two storeys. Very nice! ^_^

I was looking through the construction photos and going, "Y'know, I'm not entirely sure that's adequate earthquake strapping..." and then was all, "...oh, riiiight." You and your building in geologically stable areas! ^_^

[solarbird]

I've been trying to match the existing colours of your house to elements selectable in this online tool. The problem is I don't know whether I've done that. (The other problem is that I'm not big on white houses or pastel blue trims. Sorry! *^_^*;; I find them difficult to work with.)

If the body is something like 869 (Oxford White) in real life and if the existing trim is something like 1674 (Polar Sky) in real life (as my monitor implies), then you're already mixing a warm white with a cool trim colour, and I recommending reinforcing the cool with 1413 ("purple haze") or 587 ("Scotch Plains Green") as a strong accent colour. But that's a lot of ifs and if you go with the green (587) you'd need to be really careful, and not have any large flat areas of it.

I would be very careful about going with a strong, bright colour, and avoid warms as far as you can possibly can with that blue. (Again, that's if I've identified a right or at least similar blue. If I haven't, then all this is wrong.) With that white and blue as base colours, I would go for intensity differential rather than colour or tone differential, if that parses.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

the existing trim color (mostly on the sides and a bit of the undersides of the vinyl siding soffits) is more like 569 or maybe even 568.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

heh. not *that* stable. we get a bit of a tremor every once in a while, and we're overdue for a big one.