![]() 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.
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