I am terrible with color selection. There, I said it. - Like all things in selection, we have to narrow the field. We know that the garage doors are going to be white (already installed anyway). All the windows are white vinyl, so I plan on using white PVC trim around all the windows to make them "pop"...and...the PVC will be maint-free. The soffits will follow suit: white. We know that we will be using the LP Smartside prefinished siding. They offer standard and premium colors. They can also mix any custom color (only in a solid color), but there is a significant upcharge. We don't see the need for straying beyond their standard and premium colors: - - I am still uncertain as to who I am going to go to for the standing seam metal roofing. Menards is my only experience from some smaller projects, but they are not necessarily the best choice. They do, tho, offer one of the best varieties of color...so we will use them to consider roofing colors: - - - - Narrowing the field further on the siding, we like: Seal (solid standard color) French gray (solid standard color) Mahogany (premium color) (we don't have an actual color sample for Maple or Redwood, but it's on the way from the mfgr. I am actually counting on Maple to be "the one"...we'll see)
We have pretty much nix'd cedar as being too "orangey", but could be convinced otherwise given the correct corresponding color combo. Their use of names is unfair. When I hear mahogany, I think of dark brown and get turned off. When I see the sample, I like it. - We want to remember a couple of key factors:
it should blend with the surroundings and compliment; not stand out
it will someday be the secondary building to a much nicer house structure; it should not dominate the 2
but...since the "much nicer house" is many years down the road, we want to be able to enjoy it right now for what it is by itself
Regarding the roof... I really want to avoid having the standard "emerald green roof" that is plastered all over the countryside on the majority of buildings. I suppose, tho, that there is a reason. It works well with alot of the siding options. Actually, we really wanted to try and work the burgundy, but it is awkward with the siding colors we like. The sample house I provided in a couple of posts above is my best creation with a design program to duplicate: Mahogany color siding with the Emerald green roof. - (also, and this creates havoc with color assistance, different monitors create a myriad of differing shades. For instance, the house color model I created was done on a different PC. I used the actual 6" square color sample I picked up from a vendor and matched it to the PC screen custom color creator. Now, it looks different/darker on this PC)
