Alternative Color Combination Suggestions for a 1925 Tudor Style Home.?
Question:My fiance and I are looking to buy a 1925 Tudor style Home in need of some serious repairs. The current exterior is the typical wood painted dark brown, contrasting a drab toned ivory paint. The bottom half is natural brick with an orangey tone. The overall effect of the current paint scheme is a little drab and creepy (My friends say the pics look at little like the Amityville Horror House!). Any suggestions of exterior paint colors that might update and lighten up the look, but still staying fairly true to the style of the place? I would also be willing to paint the brick.
Answers:
To stay true to the period you really should keep the same color paint scheme, but I understand about creepy. Maybe consider a nice bright white and a lighter honey colored brown.
If brown and white are not accepteable.......
Tudor colors were red and white, as in the Tudor Rose
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tudor_rose...
Maybe white paint, red beams?
Henry VIII's favorite color was green, white and green?
Yellow paint, blue beams??
Good luck, I shudder to think of a different color scheme, paint that brick white! :P
On Behr.com they have this new program (It does cost $4.95 for unlimited year) but you take a picture of what you are wanting to paint (like the front of the house) upload it to their site/program and you just paint the parts of the house you want to paint. That way you can get the true look and you can judge it yourself. They help you find cordinating colors as well.
Im thinking its gonna be best if you pain the bricks. I cant imagine an orangy on brick. Im not sure what would go with dark wood color and orange.
That would be the best way to get a visual. Maybe try using a color wheel too?
Good Luck!
I suggest you go to a good paint store and get a pamphlet on period paint colours. You may be surprised by what is available and by the colours that they used to put together. Another alternative is milk paint colour schemes that you can copy in either latex or alkyd. Mustard yellow may look ok with the orange brick but you may want to paint the woodwork black or even a dusky blue with a grayish tone. The idea of using the computer program with a picture is an excellent one, I would definitely try that!
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