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Which color scheme looks best on our 1940s home? (see pics)

11 years ago

I was wondering if folks could let me know which color scheme looks best. I tried different colors on at Sherwin Williams' online color visualizer and I've narrowed down my choices.

This is how the house is in its current state:

And these are some options below [note: we plan on having the brick "color washed" (paint diluted w/water) so that it is opaque and the brick shows through as shown in the pictures below]:

Which looks best and why? Thanks much!

This post was edited by nurseyj on Tue, Mar 19, 13 at 18:29

Comments (3)

graywings123
11 years ago
Your photos are not showing up. I would post this on the Home Decorating forum and try again with the photos.
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Lori A. Sawaya
11 years ago
Look up Bungalow colors. Like the red/green and also the last one. Bungalow would be why.
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Debbie Downer
11 years ago
I like #2, with the gold-yellow door and the gray-taupe colors. Why? I dunno, the colors and the intensities just seem to harmonize very nicely., and the paint colors relate best to the brick colors. At least on my monitor that's how it looks!

Looking at it from the front I dont know if its the classic 1920s bungalow - looks sort of 40s-50s to me?

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