Exterior Painting
Let’s face it, there’s no shortage of Exterior Painting available for you to choose from. So, why consider Tim and Winges Carpentry? Well, to put quite simply, Tim loves a good paining challenge, he’s cultivated the craft, ensuring his work is highly precise, polished and purified. For Tim, that means he is not your run of the mill guy in a truck. He absolutely loves to paint and enjoy working with his hands and that joy translates to pride in everything that Tim does.
As mentioned, Tim loves a g ood challenge and has grown his business and reputation by consistently tackling the toughest exterior painting jobs while ensuring his customers always receive the highest level of quality combined with impeccable service for each and everyone of his clients. Tim will exceed your expectations while completing your exterior painting project on time and as quoted.
Lastly, Tim is a terrific painter who also excels at much more than just painting. Where required Tim will bring in experienced team-members who are professional, courteous and client-oriented. Everyone works as one group along with contractors and stakeholders, while providing quick and reliable updates to clients each and everyday.
Why Paint the Exterior?
Painting the exterior of your home has benefits other than helping with curb appeal. A nicely painted home exterior does more than simply look good! Quality exterior paint and the right exterior painting service works as an added layer of protection from the elements to keep your home safe from weather damage, insects, and dust. Fresh paint can also help prevent exterior paint from rotting.
What are the Top Exterior Paint Colors?
We are asked, quite often, what are the best exterior paint colors to choose from, and we can tell you that it depends on several factors. However, as a generale rule of thumb, neutral and traditional colors are usually best, not bold, unorthodox ones. The main reason behind this is simple, neutral and traditional colors appeal to broad group of people, which will make your home much more appealing, increase value and make for a quicker sell.
1. Taupe
Taupe will provide your home with a warm and sophisticated look when paired with whites or off-white and is an excellent choice for cottage-style or bungalow-type homes.
2. Grey
Gery is a great color to choose from. It often creates an aura of sophistication and sense of calm.
3. Navy Blue
Navy blue, or shades of navy blue are quite popular, especially when contrasted with white trim and works very well with turquoise or rustic brown accents.
4. Pale Yellow
Yellow is a great color that brightens surroundings and is associated with optimism, happiness and cheer. Your guests will feel these emotions as they arrive to your home!
5. Off White
White is a great color which pairs off well with other colors such as olive, brown and black. Natural woods are also a greate compliment. It’s also an excellent choice for trim but can also be great for siding.
6. Blue Grey
While there are a number of shades, the best blue-grays to help with curb appear are pastel colors with gray undertones. Blue-gery is an excellent choice for Victorian-style homes and classic white, off-white, and gray are fan favourites for trim.
7. Wheat
Wheat combines the best qualities from both white and yellow exterior paints. From yellow, it takes a feeling of warmth and joy, and from white, it takes a clean, crisp, and classic feel. You can pair this paint color with dark browns, white, off-white, grays, blue-grays, and charcoal.
8. White
White is a great color for a home, specifically, when selling it as it acts as a potential buyers blank canvas. White is also one of the more versatile colors you can choose since it pairs with everything, from black and brown to blues and grays and beyond.
9. Red
Red pop’s out in a sea of colors., It feels both traditional and fresh and is well enhanced by blue skies and a clean landscape.
10. Beige
People confuse beige and taupe for the same color, but beige is actually lighter and has yellow and red undertones that give it a warm look and feel.
The do’s and dont’s of Paint Color
Whether you go with beige or any other color, here are a handful of tips worth keeping in mind.
- Start Small: Save time and money by brining home a paint swatch so you can them in normal lighting, then start by painting just a small area as a test. If you’re convinced you have the right color and/or color combo, then you can finish painting.
- Inpsiration from colors you Can’t Change: If your roofing shingles have a hue, then you could possibly use this as inspiration. Not only can this make picking paint colors easier, but it can give you property a more cohesive look and better curb appeal.
- Look around the Neighbourhood: While you don’t want your house to match your neighbor’s, you also don’t want it to be too different.
- Keep it tame, but consider pop: Painting your doors, shutters or windows trim with an eye-catching accent color is a great way to capture enough pop and attention. The point of the pop is to help draw the eyes to more aesthetically pleasing aspects of your home.
- Contrast colors with landscaping: Don’t use too much of the same color on the exterior of your home. For instance, A green home and green garden will cause your home to be lost. So whatever colors you go with, be sure they stand out and make your home the rising star of the neighbourhood.
- Take siding into account: Materials like concrete and metal often look better with tans, grays, and even black.