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Exterior · 3 guides

House Colors for Every Roof: All Our Guides

3 guides to exterior colors (colors by roof), each with complete house schemes you can recolor, colors measured from public-domain paintings and the closest real paints.

House Paint Color with a Green Roof: 4 Exterior Schemes Green metal roof House Paint Colors with a Red Roof: Four Schemes Terracotta tile roof Brown Roof House Colors: Four Exterior Schemes That Work Brown roof

Paintings these colors come from

Rocks at Fontainebleau Paul Cézanne, 1890s Madame Thadée Natanson (Misia Godebska, 1872–1950) at the Theater Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1895 Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect Claude Monet, 1903 Portrait of a Man Continental Painter

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Rooms
  • Bedroom 47
  • Living room 14
  • Bathroom 12
  • Kitchen 12
  • Hallway 3
Colors
  • Green 19
  • Blue 15
  • Grey 15
  • White 11
  • Neutral & beige 9
  • Pink 6
  • Red 5
  • Black 4
  • Yellow 4
  • Orange & terracotta 3
Light
  • North-facing rooms 7
  • Small rooms 5
  • Dark rooms 4
  • West-facing rooms 3
Styles
  • Modern 4
  • Coastal 3
  • Farmhouse 3
Exterior
  • House colors 32
  • Trim & shutters 5
  • Colors by roof 3
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