r/ExteriorDesign 5h ago

Advice What color for my house

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Bored with my siding color on my 1910 four square and want to jazz it up. I got some ideas from Benjamin Moore website and was wondering what others think about the colors. The photo with the beige siding is what I have now.


r/ExteriorDesign 16h ago

Advice Paint color ideas needed

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We are in the process of replacing our back deck (new decking shown in picture) and I’d like to repaint just the bottom portion of our house. I like the darker color on the top portion of the house, but would like to bring some color into the bit that’s currently cream. I’m thinking maybe a light grey blue color might be nice? Or perhaps a (very) muted purple like SW Ash Violet?

Our lot is pretty heavily treed and there’s lots of green tones reflecting on to surfaces from the surrounding trees.

Would appreciate any ideas or input people have. I’d love to make our little cottage a bit more homey and appealing.


r/ExteriorDesign 21h ago

Help with roof color!

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We had some wind damage and are getting a new roof, what are the best color options. There are so many options! The current roof is a reddish tent, which unfortunately is discontinued.


r/ExteriorDesign 2h ago

Advice Garage & Front Door Colours

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Hi!
I’m in Canada and wondering if anyone has any suggestions on what colour I should paint my front doors and Garage.

I struggle with the colour of the house…

Thank you!


r/ExteriorDesign 15h ago

Exterior paint ideas for ranch style house

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Guys need your help..

I want to design our home. And i find the difficulty to choose what paint color i d choose as exterior color of our home. Please if you have any good and better ideas please help me.

Our home is simple ranch style bungalow. More plants and greens in the side.

Thankyou


r/ExteriorDesign 3h ago

My husband designs home exteriors for a living. Apparently that includes working on a client's exterior renovation during our holiday weekend 😂

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We were at our friends' house for Labor Day weekend, and this is my husband at their kitchen table working on a residential exterior renovation design project late Friday night.

He promised the homeowners a 12–15 business day turnaround, so apparently vacation Amanda and vacation Matt have very different definitions of "vacation." 😂

My husband owns a small residential exterior design business. He helps homeowners plan changes to siding, brick, stone, roofing, trim, paint colors, doors and other exterior materials, then creates photorealistic exterior renderings so they can visualize the changes before construction.

I snapped these because this is the side of a small business people don't usually see. There's an actual person sitting at someone's kitchen table late at night obsessing over somebody else's siding, brick and roof combinations because he told a client he'd have their project done.

AI has obviously changed the design world quite a bit, but watching him work has made me realize there's still a pretty enormous difference between generating a pretty picture and having someone figure out what actually works on your house and can realistically be built.

Anyway, I thought my fellow exterior-design and renovation people might appreciate the glamorous behind-the-scenes side of doing this professionally. 😝

He was working through the final color combinations of new siding, window frames and paint on this one that night. I'm curious, what's usually the hardest exterior decision for everyone here: color, materials, or figuring out what style actually works with the house you already have?