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How to Choose Paint Colors for Your Entire House: 8 Tips to Make It All Come Together | Architectural Digest

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Interior designer Leah Alexander turned to Banksy for inspiration for this nursery, but tied the space together with a rich ceiling color that the child can grow into.Photo: Marc Mauldin

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Creating a cohesive paint color scheme in a house is akin to selecting your wardrobe—you may love more than one color, but you wouldn’t wear everything at once. The same applies to choosing a unifying palette. When deciding on the hues for your home, it helps to go back to the basics.

Start with where your home is located. “When beginning a project, look to the home’s surrounding environment for color clues,” suggests Gary McBournie, a designer in Boston. “A good designer can make most color choices work. However, some choices may be more appropriate for a specific home than others.” For example, the discord between a moody interior paint and the atmosphere of a seaside residence might be tough to pull off.

Likewise, Leah Alexander, principal designer for Beauty is Abundant in Atlanta, likes to zero in on her clients’ existing materials—cabinets, countertops, floors—before presenting paint color chips. A historic home with rich chocolate trim and wainscoting might not exactly jive with an icy cool paint on the walls. “When you are looking to create a cohesive look in a home with color, the one thing to keep in mind is staying consistent and selecting the similar undertones,” says Ashley Banbury, senior color designer at HGTV Home® by Sherwin-Williams.

Read on for eight more tips on devising a consistent paint color scheme for your entire space.

Amplify the paint color you love

You don’t have to start from scratch when deciding on your house’s hues. “If you have an existing accent color that you love, but are looking for a complementing shade, select a color that has the same undertone—it will look intentional and coordinate seamlessly,” Banbury says. For example, if you are looking for a complementing neutral for an existing blue accent wall with a red undertone, select any neutral with a red undertone, and they will look great together.

Adhere to the same color tone: cool or warm

Deciding on a cool-tone or warm-tone palette is often influenced by the home’s environment and existing elements and furnishings. Once you determine which color family works best, stick to it, Alexander says. Mixing the two tones has the same effect as seeing a car with a bright, warm-toned headlight and a stark, blue-toned headlight: It’s jarring!

Use neutrals to your advantage

“I like my rooms to talk to one another, and a neutral can be the conversation facilitator,” McBournie says. For example, a neutral color on the trim and doors throughout the home can help connect the spaces. McBournie also uses a neutral as a “palette cleanser” on the walls of a room that may be between other rooms with stronger colors.

Find a favorite white paint

“Every single home has white somewhere,” Alexander says. Once you settle on a white, all the whites in the house should be this hue. With a known base, you can then start to layer in other colors. Try a white like HGTV Home® by Sherwin-Williams’s Greek Villa (HGSW7551) or Alabaster (HGSW7008). “They are not too stark, and don’t read blue. Both are slightly warmer than an extra white,” she says. “These colors are approachable and give you that clean look.” HGTV Home® by Sherwin-Williams’s Infinity Tintable Interior Paint + Primer resists scuff marks, a welcome bonus when it comes to white walls.

Layer the color room to room

You don’t have to commit to one color throughout, even in a common area. “When you have rooms that connect, and you want to create a nice flow, choose a color that is a few shades lighter or darker within the same color family and tones,” Banbury says. “It is easier on the eyes when you transition from room to room.”

A glossy white trim connects a strong red room with a softer green space designed by Gary McBournie.

Photo: Luke White/The Interior Archive/Studio Indigo

Don’t get boxed in by one color

Inviting a new color can give your house much needed dimension. “Part of the fun in design is not limiting yourself to a confined box,” says Margaret Naeve Parker, founder of M.Naeve in Houston. “I love a house that has a room, or two, with a nice bold color that differs from the rest of the home.” When the wall paint transitions well, that peekaboo moment sparks a pleasant surprise. Parker recommends limiting this effect to a dining room or a study in order to avoid a color clash that comes off as too busy.

In one project, designer Margaret Naeve Parker matched the color of the crown molding and baseboards with the original plaster walls.

Photo: Pär Bengtsson

Think about the trim

Be wary of factory-white windows, as the ultrastark hue can create dissonance, especially when paired with a warmer off-white window trim. “While not always the rule, I like the trim and the mullions to be the same color, which further promotes a cohesive feeling,” Parker says. Matching trim to wall color also helps with the transition, especially when you use a high-quality paint. “Using the same color on all the trim and doors is an architectural element that remains consistent, unifying the entire home’s aesthetic,” Banbury adds.

Give your paint selection some wiggle room

Even though you may have a dream color palette in mind, the reality of your household may keep you from going all out. Say, your kid is obsessed with pink, but you don’t want to have a Barbie bedroom. But just because hot pink is in demand doesn’t mean you can’t compromise in a way that plays nice with the rest of the house’s palette. To appease both parents and kids, Alexander suggests painting a surface that is not all four walls, like a ceiling. She used a dusty hot pink to adorn a nursery. Not only will the color be hidden from the doorway view, it’s exciting for kids to look up from their bed and see their vision come to life, she says. Alternatively, you can hide the kid-coveted color in a bathroom by painting vanity cabinets or adding a playful color band.

At the end of the day, as long as you anchor your house with a few key paint colors, you’ll have flexibility to maintain a cohesive color scheme even with some outliers.

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How to Choose Paint Colors: 12 Pro-Tips and 5 Mistakes to Avoid

So you’ve renovated your house like a skilled surgeon, fixing structural flaws and preserving each room’s distinct architectural character. But something’s still missing. More than likely, that something is color—the renovator’s secret weapon.

Did you know that crown molding can visually raise the ceiling or lower it, depending on how it contrasts with the walls? Or that deft use of color can turn one room into a lively gathering place and another into a relaxing space for curling up with a book?

In today’s open-plan homes, where kitchens, living rooms, and dining rooms are often one large space, color is used to help define interiors and create focal points in relatively featureless rooms. The trick, of course, is figuring out how to pick paint colors to use and where to put them.

How To Choose Interior Paint Colors

1. Create a Color Scheme That Matches Your Home’s Furniture

In a world where thousands of colors can be yours for just $25 a gallon, it pays to consider the advice of architectural color consultant Bonnie Krims.

“Always remember that while there are thousands of paint chips at the store, there are only seven colors in the paint spectrum,” says Krims, referring to red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet (what Color Theory 101 students are often taught to remember by the mnemonic device, “Roy G. Biv”). “I always suggest eliminating a couple even before you go to the paint store.”

Here’s her sure-fire 4 step method for creating a color scheme:

Pro2Pro Tip: If you find yourself paralyzed at the paint store, unable to choose your color sample cards, Krims offers this tip: Look at the darkest color at the bottom of the strip. “If you can live with the one at the bottom, you know you’ll like the middle and top, but if you choose by looking at the top, lightest colors, all the cards in that category start to look the same.”

  1. Start by selecting three colors from an existing object in your home. “Take a pillow from the family-room sofa, your favorite tie or scarf, or a painting—anything that conveys comfort or has an emotional connection for you—and take that object to the paint store,” says Krims. “Find three sample strips with those colors, and you instantly have 15 to 18 colors you can use, since each sample strip typically contains six paint colors.”
  2. The next step is to choose one of the three paint colors as your wall color and to save the other two to be used around the room in fabric or furnishings.
  3. To choose the colors for adjacent rooms, take the same original three color sample strips and select another color.
  4. Finally, choose a fourth color that can be used as an accent: “Splash a little of that color into every room of the house—by way of a pillow or plate or artwork. It makes a connection between the spaces,” Krims says.

2. Decide on the Finish to Create an Appealing Visual Effect

Once you have your colors in hand, consider the finish you’ll be using. Though today’s flat paints have increased stain resistance, conventional wisdom has long held that a satin (also called eggshell) finish is best for walls because it is scrubbable and doesn’t draw attention to imperfections. Semi-gloss and high-gloss finishes, it was thought, were best left to the trim, where they could accent the curves of a molding profile or the panels of a door.

Today, however, finishes are also being used to create visual effects on the entire wall. Paint one wall in a flat or satin finish and the adjacent wall in a semi-gloss, both in the same color, and “when the light hits the walls, it creates a corduroy or velvet effect,” says Doty Horn. Similarly, you can paint the walls flat and the ceiling semi-gloss to achieve a matte and sheen contrast. (The ceiling will feel higher the more light-reflective it is.) Keep in mind that the higher the gloss, the more sheen and the more attention you draw to the surface. Used strategically, color and gloss together can emphasize your interior’s best assets.

3. Match The Color To The Feeling You Want In The Room Colors evoke an emotional response. In general, cool colors (blues, greens, and clean whites) are perceived as restful and soothing while warm colors (like red, orange, and yellow) create a sense of drama and energy. Cool colors are calming in private rooms—like the ice-blue that covers the walls in this bath; warm colors are a good way to enliven social spaces.Photo by Patrick Barta/Cornerhouse Stock Photo

The psychology of color is a minor ­obsession among paint professionals. Many say you should choose a color based at least in part on how a room is used and the mood you want to establish.

Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, co-founder and editor of the blog apartmenttherapy. com suggests, painting social rooms (dining rooms, kitchens, family and living ­areas) warm colors like daffodil-yellow, coral, or cranberry, and give private rooms (home offices, powder rooms, bedrooms) cooler hues like sage-green, violet, or sky-blue.

Keep in mind, when it comes to emotional effect, of course, one person’s welcome-home orange will be another person’s signal to scram.

Debbie Zimmer, for one, declares that “red will increase your appetite—and your blood pressure; blues and greens are naturelike and calming; purple is loved by children but not necessarily by adults; yellow is inviting; and orange can be welcoming but also a little irritating, depending on the tint, tone, or shade.”

Research done by Behr indicates that yellow can stimulate the brain, so it might be worth considering for rooms where homework is done; but avoid yellow in bedrooms, where the goal is generally to chill out. Instead, explore these calming colors in the bedroom to help you sleep better.

4. Know Your Whites

Whites come in a staggering variety. Pure, “clean” whites are formulated without tinted undertones. These are favored by designers looking to showcase artwork or furnishings and are often used on ceilings to create a neutral field overhead.

Most other whites are either warm—with yellow, rust, pink, or brownish undertones—or cool, with green, blue, or gray undertones. Behr’s Mary Rice says: “Use warmer whites in rooms without a lot of natural light, or to make larger spaces seem cozier.”

Cool whites, by contrast, can help open up a space. Test several at once to see which one works best with the other colors at play in the room.

How To Use Interior Paint Colors

5. Create Flow in Open Plan Spaces Using the same gray in the open-plan adjoining living room unifies the two spaces. The simplicity of archways with no casework pulls in the view of the next room rather than framing it. Photo by Karin Melvin

Continuity is important on the ground floor, but color can help “zone” a big open space, separating the dining area from the TV room, for instance. There’s no need to stick to a single color or even a single color palette that is either all warm (reds, oranges, yellows) or all cool (blues, greens, bright whites).

How­ever, “by using muted, dustier values, there’s a better chance the colors you choose will flow into one another,” says ­Tami Ridgeway, a color stylist for Valspar. She recommends leaning toward colors softened by a bit of gray; these are ­often found in historical palettes. Bright colors can be injected in small doses as accents—in furnishings, floor coverings, even flowers.

6. Make Small Spaces Feel Bigger or Cozier
What Colors Make A Room Look Bigger?

Generally, crisp whites can make a space feel bigger and more open, while warm colors create a sense of intimacy. At the most rudimentary level, large rooms generally can handle more color than small rooms. “Lighter hues can open up a small space, while darker colors give the perception that the surfaces are closer than they are,” says Debbie Zimmer.

What Colors Make A Room Cozier?

Of course, some small spaces don’t need to feel big: If you’re aiming to create a welcoming or cozy atmosphere in a foyer, study, or library, for example, hunter green or rust may serve you better than pale peach or celery.

7. Using Color ArchitecturallyReddish browns provide a visual connection from the dining room to the front door (Sherman-Williams 2801 Rookwood Dark Red) through a series of cased and uncased openings, which allow a glimpse of the entry’s sunny walls.Photo by Karin Melvin

One of the most effective ways to use color to transform a room is to play up its architectural features. Molding, mantels, built-in bookcases, arched doorways, wainscot, windows, and doors all offer an opportunity to add another layer of interest to colored walls.

Painting Molding and Doorways

For subtle emphasis, Sheri Thompson, director of color marketing and design for Sherwin-Williams, suggests painting molding or doorways just one step lighter or darker than the primary wall. “It’s a subtle shift in color but it really brings your eye to the detail,” she says.

Painting a metallic glaze right on top of an existing painted element, like a ceiling medallion, is another way to draw attention. “A copper or bronze finish is very translucent and it gives a nice shimmer that enhances the architectural feature,” says Thompson.

One way to give adjoining rooms in ground-floor living areas a harmonious look is to paint them in colors with the same undertones, like the yellow-based red, khaki, and pumpkin used here. Keeping trim color consistent from room to room helps avoid any jarring transitions. Private areas that typically remain closed off from view—home offices, bedrooms, and powder rooms, for example—don’t need to tie in as closely with their neighboring spaces. Photo by Patrick Barta/Cornerhouse Stock Photo
Where Do You Switch Color When Moving From Door to Casing?

It’s not an open-and-shut case, but the rule of thumb goes something like this: Paint the face of the door the color of the trim in the room it faces when shut, and the edges of the door the same color as the trim in the room it swings ­into.

If you’re using different trim colors in adjoining rooms, they need to work well together. “Doors tend to stay open, so you’ll have the trim color from an adjoining room in any given space on a regular basis,” observes painter Susan English. So, let’s say you have a barn-red door opening into a room with pale yellow walls. “This can be an effective accent color in the space where it ­doesn’t ‘belong’—if it’s carefully considered.”

Keeping trim color consistent in adjoining rooms that have open entryways generally offers a sense of cohesiveness, providing an unbroken line that is pleasing to the eye. In an open plan, consider painting all the trim white, even where wall colors vary.

8. Exploring Using Two Different Colors in The Same Room

For a bolder approach, try using two different colors in the same room. For example, paint a built-in bookcase or niche a shade of green in a room with blue walls, which will highlight the items on the bookcase or inside the recessed area. Of course, architectural elements can also provide continuity throughout a house if they are painted the same color in every room. Starting in the Federal period and continuing today, white and off-white have been the traditional choice for molding, windows, and doors.

9. Create Contrast in Rooms with Wainscoting

A room containing wainscot provides a good opportunity for a contrast between light and dark. A dark wainscot below a bright wall will draw attention to the upper walls, while a bright white wainscot next to a colored wall will focus the eye on the wainscot. You can also use paint to create the effect of wainscot where it doesn’t exist by covering the bottom third of the wall in one color and the upper walls in another; then place a piece of flat molding along the intersection and paint it the color of the lower wall to reinforce the wainscot look.

10. Create An Accent Wall to Add a Focal Point

Where rooms are relatively featureless, painting an “accent wall” in a vivid hue where the others are white or neutral can add a dramatic, contemporary edge. Or, as Ken Charbonneau, a New York color marketing consultant, suggests, paint the primary walls a soft color such as beige or celadon green and the accent wall three shades darker. “The accent wall still gives the room some punch, but it’s not as dramatic.”

11. Explore Bolder Options with Multiple Colors

If drama is your goal, you might rethink the entire notion of painting a wall from corner to corner, says Doty Horn, director of color and design for Benjamin Moore, and you’ll create an architectural emphasis where one doesn’t exist. Moving around the room in a clockwise direction, try painting a third of one wall and two thirds of the adjacent wall, wrapping the corner in color. Then paint the last one eighth of the second wall and three quarters of its adjacent wall, covering that corner.

Another bold play: Take a big wall and, working in from both corners, paint it almost to the center, leaving an 18- to 20-inch vertical line of white space, and hang artwork down the center.

12. Treat Your Ceiling Like a Fifth WallPainting walls in complementary colors, like the deep red and gray-green at left, and furnishing with neutral hues of similar intensity creates a harmonious look. Red walls make this large dining room more intimate, while highlighting the white wainscoting and trim. Red overhead also lowers the ceiling visually, making the space feel cozier and more convivial—a plus in a room designed for conversation.Photo by Susan Seubert

To give low ceilings the illusion of height, paint them white and any crown molding the same color as the wall; this will keep from interrupting your gaze upward.

Though sticking to “ceiling white” generally makes a space feel airy, a similar effect can be achieved by painting the ceiling a lighter shade of the wall color. Just take the paint sample card that has your wall color as the middle choice, then go one or two choices lighter for the ceiling color. The result will be a room that appears larger, because the contrast between wall color and ceiling color has been softened. In a small room, such as a bathroom, the ceiling can even be painted the same color as the walls to make it look bigger.

Of course, sometimes lowering the ceiling visually creates a welcome feeling of enclosure. In his own 19th-century brownstone, Ken Charbonneau painted the dining room ceiling Pompeiian Red. “People love to ask if the red paint doesn’t bring the ceiling down too much. But you’re sitting the whole time you’re in a dining room, and you want to create a warm, cozy, intimate feeling, so why not?” Of course, his ceilings are 11 feet high. In a house that has ceilings just 8 or 9 feet high, painting a bedroom ceiling a pale robin’s egg blue, for instance, would be a way to create a similar, soothing effect.

Just keep in mind something Kathleen Jewell, a color consultant in Orange Park Acres, California, has learned: “Warm shades lose their yellow tones on a surface where no sun ever falls, turning bluer and grayer,” aka dingy.

5 Paint Color Selection Mistakes To Avoid

1. Being Afraid To Explore Interior Paint Color Options

“The world is divided into two groups—the color courageous and the color cowardly,” says New York color marketing consultant Ken Charbonneau. “People who live in colorful interiors have gotten over the fear of making a mistake.” The best way to get over that fear is to always start with a color you love—from a rug, a painting, a fabric. Then test it on the wall. If it’s too strong, consider asking your paint store to formulate it at “half-strength” to lighten it or to tone it down by adding more gray.

2. Putting Too Much Paint On The Walls

Be aware of the intensity of the colors in a room. “If you have an Oriental rug with five or six strong colors, don’t paint the walls in equally strong hues. Let the rug be the focal point and the walls a lighter color,” says Sherwin-Williams’s Sheri Thompson.

3. Putting Too Little Paint On The Walls

If you think your room is boring, look at it in terms of the 60-30-10 rule that designers employ.

What is the 60 30 10 decorating rule?

Sixty percent of the color in a space generally comes from the walls; 30 percent from upholstery, floor covering, or window treatments; and 10 percent from accent pieces, accessories, and artwork. Translation: Liven up those white walls.

4. Rushing The Paint Selection Process The paint chip strip is only a guide. To really see how a color will look on your walls, paint a large piece of foam-core board with it, then move it around the room for a few days. Different lighting will affect how it looks over the course of the day. While yellow looks cheerful in this sun-filled space, a similar warm color used in a room that gets no natural light can quickly start to look dingy.Photo by Alan Shortall/Cornerhouse Stock Photo

The best way to find a color you can live with is to paint a 4-by-4-foot swatch on the wall and live with it for at least 24 to 48 hours so you can see it in action.

The size of the room, the amount of natural or artificial light, and competing elements—ranging from flooring to furnishings—can all affect the way a particular color is perceived.

“Taking the extra time to do the swatch test is worth it to find a color you’ll love living with for years,” says Benjamin Moore’s Doty Horn.

A number of paint companies sell small jars of paint for sampling: Use one to paint a big piece of foam-core board with your top choice. Place it in various spots around the room, and see how it reflects the upholstery and responds to the quality and amount of light in the room over the course of a few days.

5. Forgetting About Primer

When changing the color of a wall, primer (white or tinted) is vital to getting the actual color you picked out. Michael Baillie, paint sales associate at The Home Depot, says, “Priming ensures there will be no interference from the previous wall color.”

The interior of the living room’s uncased square arch is wrapped with the entry’s warm yellow, leading the eye from the front door through the house.Photo by Karin Melvin

Choosing the color of the facade of the house and roofing online

Choosing the texture and color of the facade is exactly the case when it is better to "see once" than to study the theory for a long time and leaf through catalogs with samples. Moreover, you need to see the picture as a whole - a finished sketch of the entire building. After all, the facade should not only be beautiful in itself, but also go well with the roof, windows, slopes and other outdoor elements. Drawing a clear picture with the help of imagination is sometimes difficult even for an experienced designer. But this is not necessary: ​​the online selection of the facade takes care of all the visualization! You just have to choose a good combination of materials and evaluate the result. nine0003

How to use

A desktop computer, laptop, smartphone is suitable for work.

    1. Start by selecting the most appropriate building type in the upper right corner of the toolbar.

For fitting, you must choose the type of house closest to the prototype

Type 1 : a spacious country cottage with a veranda and a large plinth.

Type 2 : classic private house with hipped roof and covered porch.

Type 3 : modern high-tech flat roof house.

It is unlikely that these examples will exactly match your house project, but this is not important - just choose a similar design.

  1. Hovering over different areas of the facade (they are highlighted), select the required area by left clicking.

  1. In the window that opens, options for facade panels will be presented. Left clicking on the selected texture will place it on the previously selected area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe facade. nine0017

The selected façade panels and their article numbers are also displayed at the bottom of the toolbar.

  1. In the toolbar, you can select and modify additional exterior elements: slopes, windows, roof front, roof, filing, drainage system, fences.

Design tips

The appearance of the house is a reflection of the character of its owner, and complete harmony is important here. Even after many years, the dwelling should please the eye and evoke positive emotions, and not the thought “oh, it was worth doing it differently here. ” Of course, the design of the facade is not a decision for life, in the future it can be rethought and updated. But it's better to do well right away. nine0003

However, in expressing your bright individuality, you should not go too far: you can try to pass off a clumsy facade of heaps of incongruous elements as abstractionism, but rather it will become evidence of a lack of taste.

Houses are not built in the middle of empty space. Usually there is a well-defined landscape around, shaping the mood of the area. Don't neglect them! Creating a house design out of place is a risk of getting a very strange result. A high-tech house made of glass and concrete in a cozy forest silence or a carved tower in a modern suburban village will look a little out of place, agree. Perfect harmony with the surrounding space - when even a new house does not look like a new building, but gives the impression that it has always stood in this place. nine0003

Exterior must not be monochromatic! Areas of different colors and textures, repeated with a certain frequency, create a rhythm - one of the main means of architectural composition, giving dynamics and expressiveness. Facade panels are great for such alternations, as they allow you to easily join a variety of finishes. For example, it is reasonable to make contrasting brick-like inserts in plaster-like panels, and “stone” panels can be effectively combined with wood-like panels. nine0003

Do not use more than three different shades in the exterior design, otherwise the house will turn out to be too colorful. The selected colors should be in harmony with each other: unnatural transitions of shades will spoil the overall perception. To choose a palette, it is convenient to use color wheels. The most calm and harmonious option is to use shades of varying degrees of saturation from the same sector of the color gamut; this creates the necessary contrast, without breaking out of a single style. If you want to get a brighter exterior from different colors, then their optimal combinations can be found by placing a triangle in the center of the color wheel. nine0003

Roof combination

It is wise to start designing with the choice of the roof and then match the façade to match it. There are purely technical reasons for this (the roof is mounted first), and objective market ones: the choice of facade materials is much wider than roofing materials, so choosing a good facade for an already selected roof is easier than vice versa.

Red and Brown are the traditional and most popular colors for roofing. White facades are perfect for them, such a house looks friendly and beautiful. This is a classic combination of colors "dark top and light bottom", optimal for the suburbs. Dark wood or brick facades with a brown roof do not look so elegant, and look more appropriate in urban areas. nine0003

Gray and black the roof is a more strict and solid option, and even more practical in northern latitudes. The darker the roof, the better it absorbs heat: in spring, snow disappears from the roof faster, and the attic warms up more actively. A dark roof is versatile and goes well with a façade of almost any color and texture.

White and light gray roofing is relevant in hot regions with low rainfall. A light-colored roof helps reduce air-conditioning costs at home and looks great with a light blue or blue façade. But such a roof is quickly polluted by precipitation, so it is rare. nine0003

Green and blue The colors of the roof make the house more visible and unusual in appearance, but by no means pretentious. The green roof harmonizes well with the forest area, and the blue one with the sky in open spaces. Beige and sandy facades are effectively combined with them, most often it is a brick or stone finish.

Facade selection examples

Stone and wood

NICHIHA Exterior Cladding EJB492E (English Brick), EPC241N (Japanese Pine). Decorative corner strips and window slopes are made of wood. nine0003

Plaster and stone

To implement the design project of the facade of this cottage, a combination of NICHIHA facade panels of two textures was used: stone-like panels AY4109 (35 mm) with a deep relief texture and, in contrast, “airy” light panels with WFX463 plaster effect (14 mm).

Wood in different colors

Light wood facade with NICHIHA WFX801p fiber cement panels. Contrasting dark inserts are made with the WFX802p texture. The thickness of the panels is 14 mm. nine0003

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Contents:

  1. Types of facades and finishing methods
  2. Front color harmony and features
  3. Combination of colors of the facade of the building with surrounding objects

Facade cladding is made with a variety of materials that give it a natural and natural color. Brick, stone, wood, painted plaster, clinker, majolica - all materials or their combinations change and decorate the appearance of the building. nine0003

To choose the color of the facade, you need to take into account a number of parameters: climate, geographical location, technical characteristics, building functions, its dimensions, facing materials, structural elements.

A harmonious combination of shades contributes to the creation of architectural ensembles at the level of works of art.

Types of facades and finishes

The surface texture and the type of lighting have a great influence on the perception of color. Remarkable effects can be achieved by combining natural building and cladding materials. nine0003

Stone, concrete, wood are perfectly combined with mosaics, glass, asbestos cement, ceramics, metal.

Sometimes artificial materials are used for decoration, but this is not the best choice, because the walls of houses must be strong and reliable, because this is not furniture, where chipboard facades are often used.

Shades of structural elements should be combined with each other and decorate the facade. Usually, color combinations of the basement, roof and facade are selected so that they harmoniously decorate the house. nine0003

For plastered walls, paints are used that are resistant to temperature changes and other weather conditions.

For metal elements, steel or black paint is more often used, and facade elements made of metal alloys are varnished, vinyl chloride or anodized.

You can use special programs to select colors or invite a specialist.

Rules for choosing colors and color combinations

When choosing a facade color, you need to remember simple rules:

The combination of colors should emphasize the advantages and hide the flaws.

Walls are painted in warm shades: brown, yellow, red. A rare combination of white and gray. Dark facade colors should be used in small quantities so as not to create an impression of bad taste. nine0003

The house should be beautiful, neat, and bright colors make the building stand out from the space, visually increase the size. The white facade is well combined with other shades.

The green hue goes well with nature and is often used to decorate the facades of cottages and mansions outside the city. In modern architecture, purple and black shades can be used.

Terracotta is a modern and fashionable color that contains the whole range of autumn colors: carrot, brick, orange. They induce relaxation and tranquility. Terracotta decoration can consist of both rich tones and more muted ones. nine0003

Facades are also decorated in brown-red tones. The brown façade comes in a variety of hues, from copper to chocolate, and is often used to finish objects that do not have complex architecture.

Façade color harmony and characteristics

How to choose a color to make an object look more impressive and attract attention - this issue is decided by both professionals and ordinary people building their own private house.

Color has a different effect on the human psyche, and for the color scheme it is important to select shades that have a beneficial effect on the body. For some people, these are shades of red and brick, and for others, beige and green. nine0003

Scales

There are several types of color scales: achromatic, contrasting, monochromatic, disharmonious, nuanced. Gamma selection is not an easy process, and it is better if it is carried out by specialists.

Select it according to the style of the building: classic, modern or rustic.

It is better to use a small number of shades: one main and 2 or 3 additional ones. Painting a house in one color is not a very good solution, because it will look monotonous and uninteresting. nine0003

Primary colors are blue, red and yellow, while green, violet and orange are secondary colors.

Architectural features of the object dictate decisions in the choice of color palette, because poorly matched colors can cross out the style and sophistication of the building.

White and milky shades are often used in classical architecture, because they visually increase the size.

Important color characteristics:

Dark shades attract light and are used for buildings in the Nordic countries. Bright colors fade in the sun, and it is better to take this factor into account in advance.

Saturated colors are used in the absence of small elements and simple forms of the building, while intricate structures look good in light colors.

Light colors visually increase the volume of the building, dark colors emphasize the shape and reduce the emphasis on the object, bright colors make the house stand out from the surrounding space. nine0003

Important parameters for the choice of colors

The choice of color for the facade is carried out taking into account the following parameters:

Shade selection should be carried out taking into account the architecture of the object: the laconic and simple silhouette of the building is emphasized by light tones, and the complex architecture is emphasized by bright colors. nine0003

You also need to take into account the texture and dimensions of the elements. A smooth texture increases brightness, while a rough texture softens colors. The selection of colors involves the selection of all elements: doors, plinth, facade, roof, windows.

Rules to be observed when selecting colors:

Regardless of the choice of colors, the combination must be harmonious and consistent with the architecture of the object. You can choose the colors of the facades of houses by looking at the photo (see link). This is a great opportunity to choose the right option. nine0003

Combination of the colors of the facade of the building with the surrounding objects

You need to paint the house not only taking into account your taste, but also take into account the general surrounding color scheme of those objects that are nearby.

In a historic site, the color combinations that are typical for the building area should be followed. For a country house, a good solution would be to use pastel colors. If the house is surrounded by a garden and trees, then it is decorated with light colors. nine0003

If the building is located in an ordinary residential area or in an open area, then it can be highlighted with bright colors.

Facades should also be painted taking into account climatic conditions, because paints of organic origin (red, green, purple, yellow) quickly fade under the influence of ultraviolet rays, and too dark ones contribute to the heating of the facade and its destruction.

For the south side of the façade, paint tones should be more muted, because they look lighter in bright light. It is necessary to take into account how the building will look in winter or summer: the white house will not stand out against the background of snow and will completely merge with the surroundings, and the green house will not look like summer.

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