![]() Sound good? □ The fun part will be finding the right shutter and front doors colors that bring some color to the exterior of the house. So it looks like Mindful Gray is my choice. Although I’ll admit that I do love how light and fresh the color is, and I really like it with the aqua front door in the photo above. Repose Gray (#1) is too light and cold, Silverplate (#2) has blue undertones to it, and Knitting Needles (#3) has blue/purple undertones, so those three are definitely ruled out.Ĭolonnade Gray (#5) seems to have red/pink undertones in the late day and early morning light, so I’m pretty sure that won’t work. On the samples on my own house, I tried my hardest to pay attention to undertones in different lighting throughout the day.īy the end of the day, I was leaning towards Mindful Gray (#4). So when looking at pictures of the colors on other houses online, I was mostly interested to see how well the color contrasts with white trim. Of course, while you can get a general idea of the color in a photo on someone else’s house, it’s hard to get an idea of the exact color in a photo since the appearance depends on so many variables - lighting, time of day, trim color, etc. Photo by – Discover exterior home design inspiration Here are a couple of examples of Mindful Gray… The other three just looked cold and steely to me. I narrowed it down to Mindful Gray (#4) and Colonnade Gray (#5) immediately. …and on the portico side of the studio, which is always in the sunlight and hard to photograph… This was around 7:15pm on the breakfast room side of the studio… Then I waited a couple of hours and took a few more pictures. Here’s a closeup of the colors on the stone in the 5:00pm-ish light. The siding is being torn off of the front porch right now.) I had a favorite almost immediately, but I also wanted to see them on the front of the studio… Here they are around 5:00pm on the breakfast room side of the studio next to the trim color, which is Extra White (i.e., Sherwin Williams’ base color). I chose (1) Repose Gray, (2) Silverplate, (3) Knitting Needles, (4) Mindful Gray, and (5) Colonnade Gray. I started out with a stack of about 25 gray paint chips, and quickly narrowed them down to my five favorites. So I headed to Sherwin Williams to look at grays. Right after we bought this house, I did a few different mock ups, and I remember this one being a crowd favorite on my A2D Facebook page…Īnd it’s still a favorite of mine with the coral front door and the really dark midnight blue shutters, so I might go that direction this time. I’m not quite sure if I’ll go with black shutters this time, and I’m about 99% sure I won’t do a red front door. So I’ve decided to go with gray siding (and stone!) and white trim. So when Matt and I built our first home in Albany, Oregon, right after we got married, and he asked what colors I wanted on the house, I knew exactly what I wanted. And I got my gray house with white trim, black shutters and a red front door. In my early and mid-twenties, I always dreamed of having a light gray house with white trim, black shutters and a red front door. Gray used in interior decorating is a new thing for me, and even now I can only use it minimally (like the absolute lightest gray I could find for my breakfast room and living room walls) and combined with lots of color.īut gray on exteriors has been a favorite of mine for about two decades. It is refreshing and charming and one of the popular Sherwin Williams exterior colors.Photo by McCoy Homes, Inc. So, without taking up any more time, let's get to the fun part and see how lovely these colors look on houses. To make this easy for you, I have collected some great examples for you in this post. Once my client narrows down to three colors, we searched Pinterest for houses with that paint color. It's going to be a great color for your house, too! You see, if they are popular, then most likely the color has been tried again and again. ![]() POPULAR SHERWIN WILLIAMS EXTERIOR PAINT COLORSĪnytime I get a call about selecting exterior colors I begin with a list of my most popular Sherwin Williams Exterior colors. This post contains affiliate links, which means I receive a commission if you purchase at no cost to you using the links below. Update: I have added a printable list at the bottom of this post for easy access to the colors when you go pick up samples at the paint store. My heart went out to her because she had lost all the excitement in decorating because of the paint, which is why I am sharing my top 10 go-to popular Sherwin Williams exterior paint colors. ![]() ![]() ![]() Once I received a phone call from a client who was in tears because she was painting the exterior of her house and after many tries couldn't find a color she liked. ![]()
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