How would you paint this house differently?

[Baz]

This is a house across the street from one of my monthly accounts here.

I watched them painting it a couple months ago. I think the paint scheme is atrocious!

I don't have a problem with using greens and blues for a house color - I just think they way this one was done is way too chaotic or busy...

[javadog]

Well, you live where they sell more pastel house paint than anywhere on the planet. I wouldn’t want that across the street for me where I live, but down there it’s just another brightly painted house. I don’t think it’s done badly, apart from the hideous front door.

Frankly, I’d be tickled pink that someone was keeping up on his house maintenance.

[Steve Carlton]

I wonder if they like it.

[onewhippedpuppy]

I mean it sorta vibes with the coastal FL theme but I agree it’s way too much. I think it would have been better with a white or cream main body and then using the blues for trim and accent. Also that front door is just fugly, it doesn’t match anything.

[Nostril Cheese]

needs a moat

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Needs a margarita machine, fish tacos, and some seating out front.

and a mariachi band

[dad911]

Yellow rails and columns.

Ouch, I was kidding, didn't notice the front door is yellow.

[craigster59]

Reverse it. Paint the body white and use the blue as trim/accent.

Darker colors are your “heavier” colors. Same on a two tone car from the 50’s, paint the body light colored and add your blues, corals, etc on the lower area of the body

[masraum]

Wow, certainly not my taste. I could probably be OK with the primary house color for down there, but the darker blue trim doesn't, IMHO, "go" with the primary house color. And the door, highlighter/flourescent yellow, wow! That's really, IMO, a poor choice.

Certainly, there's got to be a thing from the paint company that's got suggested trim colors to go with the main color. Or at the very least, maybe complementary colors (I guess most folks don't know about them).

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by Nostril Cheese

needs a moat

Funny.

Taste is such a fluid thing: That house color, to me, is a few shades short of acceptable, but the grounds look good and there is not a patina'ed truck in the driveway.

[Zeke]

Blue-gray on the body.

[beran earms]

Wow I'm speechless. Up here in the north east we would think the circus came to town if that showed up. But on the flip side you can go not far into Vermont and find yurts on "industrial hemp farms" so to each his own.

[javadog]

I guess some of you guys have never seen South Beach.

[Bill Douglas]

Pink is another option...

[varmint]

bus station men's room green. needs a touch of urinal puck pink.

[Joe Bob]

Williamsport blue with white trim.

Drop the mike....

[id10t]

Too dark, more pastel-ish/lighter and it would maybe be OK.

However, since it is in a HOA I'd say whatever would cause the most fits to be had - Something reminiscent of Janis Joplin's 356 or Lennon's Rolls....

[Alan A]

Swap the blue contrast for the yellow on the door.
Much paler version of the main color where the white is.
Or for a real bold statement go all yellow instead of the darker blue and white.

[Bill Douglas]

They almost got it right. A friend painted his beachside home green. Similar to that, but not the same. And got it right.

[aldente]

viper green