Exterior renovation
ideas & advice.
Practical guides and design perspectives for seeing your exterior more clearly.
Should Garage Doors Match the Siding? Start With the Focal Point
Garage color changes where you look first. Use contrast to organize the exterior rather than emphasize its largest opening by accident.
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One Builder-Beige House, Three Exterior Design Directions
A warm transitional palette, a muted organic palette, and a deeper blue-green direction reveal different possibilities within the same architecture.
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Best Exterior Paint Colors for a House With a Brown Roof
Choose siding, trim, garage, and front door colors that work with the undertones of your existing brown roof.
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How to Choose Exterior Colors for a Red Brick House
Keep your red brick and choose siding, trim and door colors around the roof, mortar and windows, with a practical order for testing the whole palette.
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What Color Should I Paint My House? A Designer’s Guide
A practical sequence for choosing an exterior palette around your architecture, roof, brick, stone, and natural light.
Read storyHow to Modernize a Dated House Exterior Without a Major Renovation
Use color, lighting, doors, and carefully chosen details to improve the composition before considering structural work.
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