Your choice of exterior paint colors can make a significant difference in creating a cohesive visual identity for your home. Everything from the design of your garden and the color of its most prominent flowers to the look of your roof and windows can either accentuate your home’s exterior color scheme or overpower it. Since your neighbors’ homes exist on either side of yours, the battle between continuity and uniqueness will be a factor, as well.
The same is true of your home’s interior. Some wall colors lend themselves to an aesthetic that will unite your furniture, shelving, and decorations under one design umbrella, while other color choices may violently clash with everything else in the room. More confounding still are rooms that have cohesive aesthetics, yet they feel jarringly out of time and place. The difference between a coherent look and a gaudy mess is all in understanding how the pieces fit together and why.
Making Your Home Stand Out
Contrast is a desirable quality in the public-facing look of a home, within the bounds of good taste. If both of your neighbors have white houses, a pale-yellow exterior may make your home stand out in a soft and subtle way that adds beauty to your neighborhood while potentially improving your home’s value on the market, should you decide to sell.
Standing out is not an absolute good when it comes to appearances, of course. A bright red house surrounded by neighboring homes with subtler color schemes is likely to look garish, and if your garden is full of roses, the sight of your property may seem excessive and turn away potential buyers. When choosing to accentuate your home, it’s important to remember that sometimes, less is more.
Know Where Your Interior Design Comes From
Like art, architecture, fashion, and music, interior design has a history. Cultural revolutions, economic factors, and the environment all contribute to the rise and fall of new and old styles, and features that would have been perfectly common in the average home in one time and place may seem anachronistic in another. Sometimes the dissonance that results from competing styles is intentional and leads to the birth of new trends, but those combinations are hard to find. Most people wouldn’t want to attach a brutalist garage to a Spanish-style villa. By that same token, you probably shouldn’t paint your walls hot pink in a room full of Victorian-style furniture, or baby blue in a room featuring rustic décor.
Creating the right look for any room in your house requires some knowledge of how the pieces fit together. Sometimes the wrong color choices are obvious, but sometimes your living space just looks drab, and you can’t quite put your finger on what’s missing. An experienced painter who’s worked with residential interiors can give you valuable insight into whether you might like a complete recolor, or just a simple accent wall to tie your interior design vision together.
Richard Stewart Painting works with homeowners throughout the Los Angeles, CA area, providing house painting services that will bring your exterior and interior design vision to life. Call us at 1.818.951.1181 to get a no-obligation quote on your project.
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