Category Archives: Architecture

Specifying Exterior Color for Multi-Family Buildings

Condominium Exterior ColorAmy Krane Color
Creating an exterior color scheme for multi-family buildings, especially in multi-building communities is a challenge all unto itself. The factors one considers, the process to choose and have the colors approved, the time line, all differ greatly from specifying color for single family residences. Continue reading...

12 Paint Color & Interior Design Trends for 2024

2024 design trendAshley Montgomery
Here we are! Looking back and looking forward, trying to encapsulate and interpret what we’ve seen and what we believe we will see more of. Here are my 2024 trends for paint color and interior design. Continue reading...

10 Paint Color and Interior Design Trends for 2023

Sage green house exterior
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. Continue reading...

11 Paint Color and Interior Design Trends for 2021

wood tone and olive green kitchenMadison 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. Continue reading...

How to Choose a White Paint Color for Your House Exterior

White house exteriorMark Reuter Design
Choosing the best white paint color for your house exterior can be difficult. Let’s’ face it, many folks find choosing white colors for both exteriors and interiors challenging. That’s why you should go to an exterior paint color consultant for help! Most paint companies make many white choices. When you compare a lot of them you realize that accompanying the white exists many other tones. White can appear a tad pink or creamy with some yellow. It can contain some gray, blue, green, or a mix of more than one other color.  Like other colors besides white, the color comes from a particular hue family and traces of those families are part of the white’s makeup.… Continue reading...

Exterior Paint Color Trends for 2020

exterior paint color trends 2020Amy Krane Color &  Quatrefoil Inc. Builders  r
Unless you’ve been driving around with blinders on you’ve had to have noticed the prevalence of very dark homes by now. Exterior paint color trends for 2020 practically starts and ends with black, charcoal, navy and other very dark hues.  I’ve been writing about this trend for years as they started showing up in about 2014 or 2015 but dark houses seem to be moving more and more into the mainstream. Chances are you’ll see more dark homes in cities and the countryside. The trend is lagging in the suburbs for obvious reasons. And while they seem most appropriate for very modern homes you’ll note dark hues on historic homes like the Victorian above as well as colonials and other architectural styles, much to the delight of some and horror of others.… Continue reading...

9 Design Trends for 2016

color consultant
“Best of” lists are common this time of year. We see roundups of the best television shows, movies, Facebook posts and photos of 2015.  With the recent announcement of the new Color of the Year by Pantone and the major paint companies, sights are set on the new year in design. But next year’s trends are formulated by this year’s choices. Who better than a paint color consultant to focus a keen eye on what was, to point us towards what will be. Here’s a list of the top color and home design trends of 2015 which promise to evolve in 2016.… Continue reading...

Dark Paint Colors for House Exteriors

Peter Pennoyer's Adirondack House
Dark houses are dramatic! The juxtaposition of a dark house color with the lighter sky makes for serious contrast. Of course dark houses blend in less with the environment than lighter or mid tone houses. But that’s a design choice. Dark blue, dark green, dark grey, brown and black are all great choices. A very modern approach is not to use any contrasting trim colors at all, but the success of that is very much based on the architectural style of the house. As an exterior paint color specialist I help my clients choose dark paint colors for exteriors when they want to go that direction.… Continue reading...