![]() Plus, by painting the garage doors the house color or a little darker, your house will look bigger and less chopped up. Standard garage doors should usually be painted either the color of the house or a couple of shades darker to “anchor” them. Garage door color: Unless you want to broadcast to your neighbors that you have a three-car garage, you probably don’t want to highlight your garage doors. Matching the trim to the actual windows will make them look bigger than if you break up the color by painting a dark trim around a white window or a white trim around a dark window. Trim around windows: To keep the windows looking as large as possible, paint the trim around the windows the same as the window frames, either white or cream or whatever color the window frames are. ![]() Not only will you draw attention to all the different colors themselves and away from the front door (regardless of what color IT is), but you will have visual chaos!Įxception: If you have an old Victorian home, you may want to accent all the different architectural elements with paint in many different colors. Unless you have an architectural masterpiece, I would avoid choosing trim colors that are unrelated to the house color (for example, painting a gray house with navy blue trim, red shutters and red garage doors). The message here is to avoid too many different hues (different colors) when painting the house, trim, doors and shutters. To accent your trim in a traditional way, choose contrast by using either white or cream. If you have a stone house, the grout color is a great trim color. If you want to show off the trim in a more contemporary way, consider painting the edge trim two shades darker than the house color. This will blend the corners of the house in with the body and draw your eye to color - hopefully, the front door. House trim color: If you have a small house and you want it to look bigger, consider painting the edge trim the same color as the house or just a shade lighter. ![]() (Even though Great Britain’s former Prime Minister Tony Blair reportedly changed his 10 Downing Street door color from conservative black to Labour Party red as seen in this photo from the Daily Mail, evidently it was all an April Fool’s joke - see the full story at )ĭoubtful that changing your own front door color will create as much of a stir in the neighborhood, but you’ll want to give it considerable thought anyway. The front door is the focal point of your house and it can make a big splash.
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