Help choosing a paint color for my Queen Anne Victorian.
When we bought our coastal New England home six years ago, it came with a moss green exterior paint that looks remarkably better than I would expect from a paint chip, but ultimately feels a bit blah.
We would like to cheer the house up a bit, however it feels as if the design and weight of the home precludes us from using too cheery/bright a color. excepting yellow, which is off the table due to two adjoining neighbors having yellow homes. The attached barn is currently yellow and will stay that way as a nod to the fact that the house was yellow for 50+ years.
A few notes:
- I love seafoam green (third photo from chatGPT) such as Benjamin Moore Wythe Blue, and would love to make it work, but I suspect it may look ridiculous due to the size and design, like painting a battleship the same color as a 22’ power boat would. It feels as if a creamy enough trim might integrate the seafoam green, though?
- While I like the idea of one of the pure or historic blues, many homes in my town are painted in BM Hamilton blue, Van Courtland, blue, etc. and they all look dull, faded and chalky in only a few years, leading me to believe that most blues excepting the deep heavily tinted ones hold up less well than I would like.
u/njkol80 — 4 hours ago