Paint Your House: Tips For Choosing Exterior Colors

It's so hard to choose colors, you may be tempted to give up and paint your house all white. This guide will help make the decision process easier with handy tips and links to photos.

Is green too ordinary? Pink too bold? The answer depends on how you use the colors. These photo galleries will help you visualize color combinations on a variety of house styles.

Wouldn't it be great to preview color combinations on your house, before spending a lot of money on paint? You can, with virtual painting programs. Just point and click to see rooms, furnishings, and house exteriors in many different colors.

View color swatches from popular paint companies online, and also find tips for choosing house paint colors and recommended paint color combinations.

Here's everything you need to know about house paint and paint colors on a single page. Find find tips, techniques, and tools for exterior house painting, painting interior rooms, and painting special surfaces like tile and paneling.

What color should you paint your house? Browse our gallery of house paint pictures for color ideas.

Sunny yellow and gold colors will give nearly any house an aura of warmth. Yellows are also highly adaptable, harmonizing well with brick and stone. Browse these house paint color pictures for ideas on how to use yellow and gold colors in your house painting project.

Green offers a wide palette of hues, ranging from the vibrant yellow green of a spring leaf to subtle gray-green, olive, and moss colors. Browse these house paint color pictures for ideas on how to use green colors in your house painting project.

Like the sky itself, blue has many moods. A bright blue house may appear playful, especially when trimmed with crisp pure white. Gray-toned slate blues and almost-black midnight blues suggest quiet dignity. Deep red accents can add richness to darker blues. Browse these house paint color pictures for ideas on how to use blue colors in your house painting project.

A house painted pink can seem feminine and playful, but darken the color and the pink will become a dramatic shade of rose or coral. Browse these house paint color pictures for ideas on how to use pink colors in your house painting project.

A printer-friendly guide with quick and easy tips.

Owners of this American Foursquare style house faced difficult choices when they decided to repaint. Here's how they picked colors, with step-by-step photos.

A technical manual for solving exterior paint problems on historic woodwork, from the United States National Park Service.

Extensive how-to on the removal of lead paint in old homes, from the National Park Service.

The houses in these photos need a new coat of paint - but, what color? In this workshop we will discuss these homes and choose new exterior paint colors. Follow the links for house color charts, house color tools, and resources to help you choose exterior paint colors for your own home.