Colonial House Door Colors

Anthony applies his fresh take on americana in both furnishings and décor using a broad range of rich paint colors from the williamsburg paint color collection palette.

Colonial house door colors.

Color your home welcoming. Royal blue is a timeless color choice that will wear well and look great with accents from many seasons. A stormy gray hue on the clapboards makes the house recede into the landscape rather than compete with it. It s the first thing people see and the last one on many homeowners to choose list.

Crimson strawberry door and shutters. This soft white home shines with sea blue board and batten shutters and a rustic arched front door. A single accent color on the door and shutters emphasizes the symmetrical facade a hallmark of the colonial revival style. Drizzle by sherwin williams front door.

Stained wood i realize stain isn t technically a color but letting your beautiful wooden door shine through with a pretty stain on it can look fabulous with a blue house. Rural houses were often unpainted until the middle of the 19th century. White or sometimes the same color as the body. The eight essential colonial colors are the most stable natural colorants.

This house has so much character that you almost can t tell it s new construction say homeowners brit and zack drozda. Hang a wreath with touches of blue for a pulled together look. A victorian home is a license to indulge in brilliant paint and trim choices. This style of architecture has so much detail that it takes a dark or bold color to draw your attention to the front door as a focal point says jackie jordan director of color marketing for sherwin williams.

Traditional paint colors come to brilliant life at the palmer house circa 1750 under the deft skills of celebrated interior designer anthony baratta in colonial williamsburg. House fronts were sometimes painted in fashionable lighter and more expensive colors while the back and or the sides were in the more traditional and cheaper reds. Shutters and doors were dark green or black. The color of the front door.

Vivid royal blue is one of the standout front door colors. In the 17th and 18th centuries that made it easy for german and swiss immigrants settling in pennsylvania for example to transfer their folk painting traditions to the new world resulting in pennsylvania deutsch furniture. View our gallery of colonial house exterior colors. They re also available almost everywhere.

Window and door trim looks great painted a crisp white or painted the same color as the body of the house to put the focus on the door. But if classic green red and black have long been the defaults that s beginning to change. The deep blue color is calming and goes with most house colors but it accents the pale gray of this house very nicely.