What color shutters should I have?
Question:I am painting my house a light green however I don't want black shutters and I don't want white shutters. I would like a shade of green darker than the house but I am having trouble matching colors. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Answers:
I got a color swatch book--over a hundred pages with paint swatches on them--from Sherwin Williams. The pages fan out individually, so you can hold one strip up next to something. I stood in front of my house and held up strips with shades (tones?) of grey until I hit the "right" one.
I did look at it in sun and shade at various times of the day until I was sure--my husband had already painted the shutters
once--a really wrong shade of red--, and he was willling to do it ONE more time! I really wanted to get it right. I did, and
it looks fantastic.
A pine green would look nice...do the Home Depot commercial thing,,,bring a pine tree to the store and say..."Can you match this?"!!!!
depends alot on what your house interior looks like. But white is a popular choicce right about now.
I would suggest a dark cream colour...that way it won't be white, but will still be a complimentary colour. Hope this helps!
My house is painted a light green, and although I don't have shutters, the trim and wrap-around porch rails are a light cream, and the trim on the windows and the front door are painted brick red.
It looks great!
forest green would be nice, just take a crayon into home depot or lowes and get it matched up
I had the same problem , all the shutters in the stores are just
basic match ups . Everybody has them and I did not just want
to except the limited choices like all the rest !! So I looked at
special order colors which drove the price up and was hard
to imagine what they might look like on my house from a 2x2
inch plastic chip . Anyway I ended up buying the stock shutters and spray painting them myself with my color of choice which was about $25 less per special order shutter .
I used a spice green from American tradition made for out
door furniture & shutters . It looks Great !! and a lot of people
asked how much & where to buy . One guy used the exact same color on his ( upset me a bit too) but he lives a couple
blocks away . If your not sure of your color just buy the shutters
cut out a card board silhouette from them and try some colors
out on it first , holding it up to your house . It took one can of
paint to spray three 68" x 15" dark pine color shutters to the
color green we chose . Besides that when they fade , they will
fade to a darker color first now because of the color underneath or , now I just can paint them again . Anyway I painted them fresh out of the pack , no prep needed , just be
careful not to touch the surface that you'll be painting , plus
paint on a low humid day . Thats it , enjoy...
You are probably gonna have to take a sample of the green you are using and go match it up at a paint dept. They can help you determine if it's a blue green, warm green, ect... I would guess that you are either going to end up with Hunter Green or Spruce Green shutters. Good Luck! It sounds really nice.
How about a creamy yellow to set the green off?
We have a sage green house with deep red shutters and a deep red door. I love the look, however contrast is not for everyone.
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