Exterior Paint Colors?

[seriously]

We are going to have to get our house painted soon.  Leaning towards doing a grayish/brown.  Looking for recommendations you might have of paint colors.  Picking a color for such a large job is a bit intimidating!
Our front porch and steps are a brownish slate, so we want something that will work with those colors.
Tried to add a pic, but it failed.  :-(

[theoriginalbean]

Ugh, we just went through this process last month with our exterior, too. It was such a nerve-wracking decision on such a big canvas.

I don't have any suggestions for you, since we were going with grayish blue, but the best piece of advice I can offer is to get as many sample cans as it takes. We went through a ton of grays, because they'd all end up looking much lighter or much bluer or much different than what we thought they'd look like based on the swatch. We painted patches on the house and looked at the colors in different lights as the sun moved.

[twogirlsmommy]

Jun 3, 2017 22:13:03 GMT -5 seriously said:

We are going to have to get our house painted soon.  Leaning towards doing a grayish/brown.  Looking for recommendations you might have of paint colors.  Picking a color for such a large job is a bit intimidating!
Our front porch and steps are a brownish slate, so we want something that will work with those colors.
Tried to add a pic, but it failed.  

I went to the Sherwin Williams store & scheduled a 1 hour color consult. They come to your house & help you pick a color - it was really helpful for us. They charge $95 but you get a $50 sherwin williams gift card so it seemed worth it to me.

[mrs.jacinthe]

If you are in an HOA or neighborhood with CC&R's, start there. Your neighborhood docs may have restrictions on paint colors. If not, pick a part of your home that gets a lot of sun and do large test samples. All the colors we considered looked great in the shade but several were completely awful in full sun.