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A neutral gray roof that doesn't skew warm or cool leaves you endless possibilities for house paint color. But if your roof is green, brown or red, your house color becomes a trickier decision. Choosing exterior paint colors for a green roof, brown roof or red roof is an art form but you can learn it.
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Amy Krane Color
Blue is ever-growing in popularity as an exterior house paint color and here's why: Blue is the world's favorite color. And homes with light blue bathrooms sell for thousands more too.
Dark exterior paint colors are still on an upward trend and there's no doubt many people consider the best dark blue paint color for a house exterior to be
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There is no single correct way to proceed when choosing colors for multiple buildings on one site. It's more about your individual taste and the function of the buildings. But take care the colors shouldn't fight one another.
Just down the street, less than a half country mile away, a beautiful complex of 3 buildings comprises the now defunct Little Ghent Farm.
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2023 Color and Interior Design Trends. Warm Autumn Toned Paint Colors.
The 2023 paint colors trending for interiors are warm autumn hues…. plus dusty muted pink. Colors like bronze, bourbon, ochre, gold, adobe, orange and russet prevail. This is an iteration of recent color trends. In fact, all of the trends this year signal an evolution, not a revolution of year’s past. The tones are rooted in nature with a nod towards the explosion of deep saturated color that comes before the senescence of winter. Where last year’s trend highlighted green with its nod towards renewal, this year’s marks another point in the circle of life.
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Laura Nelson
We’re about half way through 2022 so it’s a great time to see what’s happening in kitchen design right now. Some trends are humming along consistently as they have been for a couple of years but some newer trends are emerging. Multi-toned kitchens are still here though I’m not referring to the tuxedo look with white upper cabinets and another color below. Let’s consider that more or less over. I’m talking about a trio of colors that often includes black, white or beige and light wood tone. (In cases where it’s just two colors for cabinetry it’s usually the island base or a stand alone pantry that’s unique.)
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This year’s go-to color is green. Though I rarely give the paint companys' Color of the Year more than a glancing nod, this year I was struck by their uniformity and general good sense. Green was the hands down choice. As the most prevalent color in our surroundings (outside of concrete jungles) green ushers in feelings of calmness, health, freshness and well-being. No wonder, after what we’ve been through it’s one of the hottest trends. I’ve been specifying greens for eons when clients are open to it. It’s an easy color to work with and enhances every style of interior design
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Amy Krane Color Victorian
Paint colors for red brick exteriors.
More than any other material, red brick seems to stump folks most when choosing paint colors to accompany it. It’s such a pronounced, definite color, the conceptual opposite of a neutral. Red brick comes in many shades. Brick is a natural material, made from clay. The origin and age of the brick affects its appearance greatly. The brick can appear more burnt orange or red. It can lean brown or yellow tan and it’s almost always multi toned within one structure. Finding great paint colors for red brick is easy if you follow the following guidelines.…
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Madison Nicole Design
Always my favorite blog post, this year, corralling paint color and interior design trends into a coherent POV is tempered by my acknowledgement of the distressing state of the world and the relative insignificance of this task. But not wanting to add to this year’s sense of aberration I’m forging ahead with it. Like most years in the past, this year’s trends are a combination of those newly emerging with those already ongoing. Some also take a relatively fresh idea from the recent past and morph it into something just a squosh different. Last year, pre-Covid, I forecasted the new trend in warm, saturated paint colors like russet, bronze, burnt orange and the like.
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