What colour to paint wood work, down pipes etc
Zoe Brodie
7 years ago
Suggestions on what colour to paint the wood boarding, down pipes, possibly the windows, front door of our Victorian villa, love Little Green Paint Company colours, absolutely hate the current colour does nothing for the house, but seems to be a traditional colour in our area but I hate it. Got a couple photos, want to make it more welcoming less dominate, softer. If anyone knows of any apps for tools that you can use to play around with colour choices that would be amazing as well so I can show husband as he needs something to visualise. Thanks in advance
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Juliet Docherty
7 years ago
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7 years agoHi Kamila. I hope you don't mind me asking but are you suggesting dark blues would not have been popular during the period ? I have an early Victorian Italian Renaissance style house which needs painting which I want to do in traditional colours. I know stone colours were hugely popular hence my suggestions above but I was originally thinking of a dark blue front door. Would that not be in keeping with the period? I may well change the doors to black though as I think we'll go with purple brown for the Windows. Thanks
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