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How to Match Your Home’s Exterior Color With Your Roof

If you’ve ever tried to style different outfits, you know how a simple addition or subtraction can make a world of difference. Your home’s color scheme and pattern can dramatically change its quality and curb appeal, and unlike your easy-to-change outfits, replacing exterior paint colors isn’t as easy or cheap.

So how do you know how to match your home’s exterior color with your roof? Matching your home colors to the neighborhood, choosing to make a statement with a color combination that stands out, and using the architecture to your advantage can help you find the perfect roof color to put the finishing touches on your beautiful home.

Understand the Architecture

The right exterior color for your home can depend on the materials used, your home’s style, and even your roof and attic shape. You want to get a keen understanding of the roof materials used and how your roof looks on the street as opposed to up close. Your shingle colors might glisten up close but look like your existing roof to anyone passing by.

Understand how to match your roof and house siding and the relationship between the two. A flatter roof might not have much to offer to complement the siding, but a roof with an attic that sticks out might lead to more options on the color palette. When in doubt, it’s never a bad idea to stick to the basics, but the basics aren’t what draws the eyes, right?

Understand the Basics

Ideally, a great exterior color combination for your home should have three parts: The primary color that dominates the eyes, a trim color that accentuates the primary color nicely, and an accent color that adds beauty to elements like your doors and shutters.

It’s also good to know a few fundamental paint ideologies that stand the test of time. A green siding color looks great with gray or black roofs, and a lighter olive color works exceptionally well with dark-colored shingles. Speaking of darker shingles, brown-colored shingles and cream-ish house colors make for beautiful home combinations. Darker house paint with increasing shades of gray also work to create a beautiful grayscale home.

Make Sure the Colors Complement Each Other

There are so many different paint colors you can choose from, but you don’t want to select a color without seeing how they work together as best as you can. There are apps you can use to choose exterior colors, or you can ask the painting professionals in your area to provide you with samples of the colors so you can make the judgment yourself.

Understand Your Climate

Believe it or not, your climate can play a significant role in the colors you choose when matching your roof and exterior home color. Cooler climates can have darker roof shingles that attract and keep in the heat. Homeowners in warmer climates might want to choose a lighter color for their roof, which can unlock a few exciting shades and color combinations to match roof shingles with the home exterior color.

A Good Paint Company Will Match Your Paint to Perfection

Painting professionals like the ones at Fox Painting Company know a thing or two about matching home colors. Regardless of what climate you live in, or the look of your home, you can be sure to have a color scheme that looks as good up close as it does from afar and will make you happy. 
Reach out to our house painters in Bucks County, PA today if you’re looking for more information on how you can exquisitely match your home and roof color and perfect the home of your dreams.

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