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Exterior Paint Colors for Siding and Trim

Color specialist Peggy VanAllen meets with Bob to discuss exterior color choices for the Modern Colonial project. In choosing a palette for a home, consider the style of the house and the surrounding environment. For this project, neutral colors were selected for the siding and trim, with a darker green (Charles Green from the Bob Vila Signature Collection paint line) for use on the home's shutters.

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Exterior Paint Colors for Siding and Trim

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" Joining us now is Peggy van Allen. Who is our color wrist consultant who's gonna. Talk -- about how best to select the right color scheme for a house. And so far we've got the primer on our kind of classic center entry colonial but we step over in this direction a little bit we'll see some of the actual. Field color which is warm stone and this of course is from my own new signature line where it hearing it here yet. All right so what's the the logic behind choosing a color like this for the field of the house."

" Forty choosing a color for the house you want to take into account the style of the house here in very classic colonial to traditional looking house -- such an echo of the sort of a neutral color also works well with the environment -- a lot of trees surrounding the house."

" You've helped us choose a white for all the trim. Now."

" Why are we going -- a lighter color for the trim instead of a darker color what's the logic there -- the lighter color will halt the details cannot stand out there's lot of architectural detail in this house that you really want to bring out and make it pop out from the -- color."

" And then the shutters that are going on Peggy. Art beautiful. Wooden shutters which give us an opportunity to put -- a cholera -- right your shutters and your doors are great opportunity to add some color and some spark to the house. Killing of personality into it can hear that the choice for the for the shutters is actually almost a black it's called. Charles green I think that's going to be very elegant when you have those three choices together is gonna be historically relatively accurate. Now the entryway that we have here is kind of like modern version of an antique. Element because you've gotten kind of recessed panels and you've got the column and everything here what -- you do there in terms of your color choices."

" canyon this is a great opportunity where you can really do a lot but I don't think you want to get too wild because we're still keeping in a traditional style. So we -- Powell when he used the warm stone on these panels here and then continue the white on the trim on the corner boards here and again on the columns. And nine in all the rest of the -- on the door you want to keep in the Lily white."

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