Ext. paint scheme… your opinion please
davidmeiland
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DW and I are debating whether the eaves of our house should be painted the trim color or the body color. Body is shingled and will be Cottage Red… a barn red. Trim is off-white, the window and door casing, a band above the doors/windows, the details around the porch, etc. The house has minimal fascia and is mostly gables, with outlookers supporting the barge rafter and 2′ of exposed beaded roof decking on every side. One of us wants the underside of the eaves in the trim color, the other wants them the body color. Whatcha got on your house?
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Trim color, for sure!
But... for peace & harmony long term (and maybe a few points) whatever DW wants!
I'd say probably the trim colour but one thing throws me here.
Do you have a overhang with exposed raftertails? and then the beaded roof decking/sheathing above showing? That's the way I interpret what you say.
I would then maybe do the rafter tails and bord blocks/freize in the trim colour and go with something else on the roof underbelly. Maybe a silverskyblue grey. Red is so hard to work with. For me anyway.
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One that is often used on beaded porch ceilings and soffits heree is robins egg - sky blue, because it looks like open sky to cerain iunsects so you get far less spider webs and hornets nests, etc.
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I'm using a similar red as well and using blueish greys on trim and deep deep deep dark green on some of the doors.
I dont want white on trim because to me it looks too much like a band around the house.
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Here's a photo of the primer stage... way too many shadows under the eaves to really see, but this is where it's headed. Previously the barge rafter was white, but everything behind and under was a dark blue body color. Looked like (and was) a cheap landlord paint job. To me, siding is siding, and everything else is trim unless it's a door.
http://bailerhill.com/eaves.jpg
May I suggest that if the trim is an offwhite color, then make the eaves an off offwhite color? In other words a slighter darker white than the trim, just a shade or two or three, an enough to make a pleasing contrast.
The reason I suggest this is because I am currently repainting the trims on a large, red brick masonry home. The trim is a battle ship grey with the fascia a darker grey and the underhangs a lighter grey. The HO asked me to just paint everything the darker grey color but after doing the doors (which were the lighter grey) and their jambs (which were the darker grey), I convinced the HO to stick with the original color scheme and that it was no big deal to paint the fascia one color and the eave another (I am being paid hourly).
Edit: I meant a lighter white color for your eaves, not the off offwhite I suggested. Duh to me. In other words, off white for trim and white for eaves or something like that. Ditto for your exterior doors and jambs (doors white and their jambs off white)
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