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am struggling on the exterior of my home. I do not like the curb appeal and am considering painting the brick a steel gray color. The brick is a weird and boring blonde/tan color and adds nothing to the house. I also dislike the two top windows as one is bigger than the other and makes the front even more unappealing. I am considering steel gray paint all over, including side wood part, black trim, new modern double door, white or some type of stone on the middle front section. The big bushes will come out and a vertical cedar feature flanked by the same stone will be placed in front of the solid wall on the left and nice landscape on the right. Need some feed back on my idea as painting the brick is a huge decision. Thanks in advance.
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Go to one of the paint company's websites and play with their paint visualizer. Usually you can upload a pic of your home and then try various color combinations. If you can't upload a pic, they have sample houses that you can use to visualize the colors. Valspar has a good one: Or at least they used to. SW has one and I'm sure Benjamin Moore has one.
http://www.valsparpaint.com/en/explore-colors/painter/virtual-painter.html
http://www.valsparpaint.com/en/explore-colors/painter/virtual-painter.html
I don't think changing the color of the brick is going to do what you want. I wonder if another side of this house was once the 'front', and this was the side. You need changes that make this look more like the front of a house. Fix or remove the one window, add a large double or picture window to the left of the door, and a smaller bedroom-sized window to the right. To make the front entrance more appealing, add a front porch centered over the door, with a peak parallel to the other peaks. Open beams look nice in a porch.
Painting it a dark color now will only make what's not good about this face worse. I wouldn't put in any tall, thin shrubs because the house is low and sprawling. Go for trees that match that, like a Japanese Maple. Lower all the front shrubs if they can take a serious pruning so they don't block your new windows.
Painting it a dark color now will only make what's not good about this face worse. I wouldn't put in any tall, thin shrubs because the house is low and sprawling. Go for trees that match that, like a Japanese Maple. Lower all the front shrubs if they can take a serious pruning so they don't block your new windows.
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