ISO a good exterior khaki paint archived

j_r

May 12, 2014 at 11:07am

I'm finally next on the list for exterior painting and suggestions are still welcome.

My house is an American foursquare, and looks more or less like the one in the picture below, except that it has stucco siding. It is currently painted a very pale yellow, and Hawthorne Yellow is a color I like a lot. The new roof is charcoal. If it matters, the nearby neighbors are beige, tan, white and white.

Suggestions for trim color? Other ideas about the exterior?

Should shingle dormers be painted to match the stucco walls, or should they be their own color?

Should the decorative eave brackets be painted a different color?

For the door, I think I'd like Blue Nose.

j_r

May 13, 2014 at 3:40pm Edited

Hawthorne Yellow it is.

I think a true white looks better than a creamy white for the trim.

For the eave brackets, I tried Cypress Green, and it's too green. I need a gray-based khaki that goes well with a gray-based yellow. Suggestions?

Powerwashing was pretty brutal on most wood trim, but uncovered beautiful wood on the deck on the north side of the house, which gets mossy.

kmk

May 13, 2014 at 6:19pm

I know this is not real helpful but we have had VERY good results using the Benjamin Moore iPhone app called "Color Capture."
You simply photograph something you like color-wise (a pair of khaki pants, a napkin, a piece of stationery) and the app generates a palette of 6 stock paint colors that you can choose from. We found the perfect red just this week.

dg64

May 14, 2014 at 2:18am

Have you looked at BM Olive Branch?

kmk

May 14, 2014 at 3:28am

@j_r, you can also ask the nice folks at Ricciardi to let you borrow their huge color fan/wheel/ book thing. They lent it to me for 24 hours last week.

For our exterior we also did mock up samples using blank foamcore-like boards sold at the paint store. Colors look VERY different out in full-spectrum sunlight!

j_r

May 14, 2014 at 3:39am

So true! One white (Snow Something) looks gray-blue and the other (Elephant Tusk) is yellow in outdoor light.

dg64

May 14, 2014 at 5:20am

Also look at the color boards on all exposures of your house. The color may look very different when put on a north facade as opposed to a south facade.

j_r

May 14, 2014 at 5:28am

I'm getting nothing done at work because of Color Capture.

kmk

May 14, 2014 at 5:35am

^Hah!

j_r

May 14, 2014 at 5:50am

My pants are Athens Blue! My eyes are Chimichurri!

I think I've settled on Revere Pewter as the khaki accent. Now I just have to choose from one of the thousands of shades of "white."

wendyn

May 14, 2014 at 5:56am

I actually went with just BM White for the (inside) trim so I would remember what it was when I had to repaint!

kmk

May 14, 2014 at 5:57am

Full disclosure, we used the plain white - as in the base white - as our trim color.
Initially I was horrified at its starkness but now, 10 months later, it has mellowed and it looks just about right. Much like a new pair of white Jack Purcell's I suppose!

lynnb

May 14, 2014 at 5:59am

I've been looking at similar tones and really like white dove (OC-17). Haven't seen it on the actual house yet though. Was planning to do simpliy white but worried it might be too stark. Inside the house I use decorators white on all trim.

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