With so many colour offerings and colour combinations, how do you even begin to decide your home’s new look?.
Have you missed your house once again on your way home? Perhaps it blends in too much with the rest on the street, or maybe it lacks that curb appeal?
Is your house lingering on the market, failing to impress potential buyers even before they step inside?
A professional paint job can work wonders for your home, offering a cost-effective solution compared to new siding or an additional construction. Even if you opt for a slightly pricier option by hiring a reputable painting company, the added value to your property will likely justify the investment. With a plethora of colour choices and combinations available, selecting a new look for your home can be overwhelming.
Although many painting contractors can assist with colour selection, here are some tips to help you choose the perfect colours for your home:
Tip 1 - Setting Matters
If you live in an urban neighbourhood, your fellow homeowners may be unhappy if your fire engine red home makes theirs pale by comparison. You may have made a statement, but is it a wise one? If the homes around you are all white, you can still stand out with a fresh coat of white and trim in red or your favourite bold colour. In a neighbourhood of muted tones of beiges, creams, and pale olives, make sure yours is not the same colour as those immediately adjacent to yours, and maybe not the same as any of them, but still in muted tones. White trim always looks crisp against any of these palettes.
On the other hand, perhaps your neighbours have discovered the joy of deep colours, mustard yellow, colonial blue, Kent green, or even that red. A white or subdued tone is almost an insult to the spirit of the community!
Perhaps you live in a rural setting. Nothing stands out against the greens of nature like a more intense colour. It speaks joy, like the first blossoms of spring.
Tip 2 - Your Home's Style
A Victorian style home is often most elegant in pure white, whereas an old farmhouse wears traditional white and new, more vivid colours well. Spanish style stucco would look dark and heavy in deeper shades and looks best in very pale hues
Tip 3 - Consider Your Personality
If you are hoping to sell soon, try to go with more conventional colours such as those creams and taupe, but if the house is yours for life and you want to smile every time you see it, go for those colours that excite or calm you, make you feel like royalty or a cabaret dancer!
Whatever you decide, no paint is permanent. You can change the colour scheme again at any time.
No more just driving by! And probably others will stop to admire too!