The best color to paint a small boring ranch home with shutters?

Question

The best color to paint a small boring ranch home with shutters?

Answer 1

Some very important information which is missing from your question is your roof color, your location in the country and what your community standards are. If there is any stone or brick work on or about your house, or any unusual foundation plantings.

Generally, creating contrast on a house is one way to guarantee that it will look smaller so if your goal is to make the house look bigger, then reduce contrast between body, shutters, and trim.

I took a small 42 foot ranch home that had been painted a redwood color with white shutters and trim. The goal was to update the home which had been the same color since the 70's and to make it look larger. My color choices were a much lighter and muted seafoam green with a putty color trim and shutters. I developed a darker accent for the door so I could create a focal point of interest where there was not previously. Yes, the shutters and trim (gutters, facia, foundation and downspouts included) are the same color. Here's the palette; all Benjamin Moore paints: body-Misted Green, 2138-50, trim-Senora Gray, 1530, door-Hemlock, 719.  Good Luck!

Rodd

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Answer 2

You should always do light or bright colors of any kind because they make the room bigger never use dark it makes the room look smaller.

Answer 3

As you do have shutters you can paint using a contrasting colour, like a pastel lemon for the home and a powder blue for the shutters for that sunny cottage feel. For a more traditional feel go for a sandstone/ocher colour and cream shutters to lighten the effect. Go to the paint shop and get some smple pots of colours that you like and give it a try on some paper then live the combinations out for a couple of days to weather then you will truely see how your place will look.

Answer 4

Lt. grey, dark blue shutters