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It is called Terra Cotta by owens corning. The pic it looks kinda red probably because of the light, but it is certaninly a Terra Cotta color. It is more of an orange color than red.
It is called Terra Cotta by owens corning. The pic it looks kinda red probably because of the light, but it is certaninly a Terra Cotta color. It is more of an orange color than red.
When I say that your roof isn't terra cotta, I mean that your roof material isn't terra cotta.
In other words, your roof isn't TILE, it's asphalt.
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Originally Posted by SweethomeSanAntonio
Oh no im not painting the brick at all just the body probably an Ivory color.
Not sure why you started this thread. You already have in mind what you want to do. Everyone here is saying to go darker. The white/ivory isn't going to bring out any of the rich colors in your brick or roof. That's apparent from looking at your garage doors. White/ivory really detracts from the beauty of your house already.
SweetHome,
I see what you're doing. in fact, when i first posted, i immediately thought of stucco for your home. Inside your house, you have a kind of stucco color going, so the outside of your home, where you want it "white," you could paint it that stucco color. The browns need to be deep, and now that I've seen a photo of the actual color of your roof, no need to worry with getting a little red tint to the brown becuz the roof has some deep brown in it already.
Now, if you really want your home to look Spanish, you have to "tip off" people to that style, so you could put some iron gates into a couple stucco pillars at the end of the sidewalk, just for show, you could run a section of low curved stucco wall off the pillars, to ground it into the landscape. Also, use Spanish type iron porch fixtures for lights, etc. And one way to make those prominent soon-to-be brown garage doors look less imposing is to create a stucco-like archway over each door, again just for show, placed so that the doors will still operate, and you can consider making your doorway an arched one, a "fake" arch in front of the square door to save buying a new door. Maybe get some smallish palm-like plants to add to your landscaping, and a large terra cotta-colored plant pot with carvings on the porch.
Try to find a program online that will let you take a house that looks somewhat like yours and change the paint colors, so you'll KNOW it will look correct. And could be to balance the big brown garage doors, you'll need to make your front door brown, too.
GG
SweetHome,
I see what you're doing. in fact, when i first posted, i immediately thought of stucco for your home. Inside your house, you have a kind of stucco color going, so the outside of your home, where you want it "white," you could paint it that stucco color. The browns need to be deep, and now that I've seen a photo of the actual color of your roof, no need to worry with getting a little red tint to the brown becuz the roof has some deep brown in it already.
Now, if you really want your home to look Spanish, you have to "tip off" people to that style, so you could put some iron gates into a couple stucco pillars at the end of the sidewalk, just for show, you could run a section of low curved stucco wall off the pillars, to ground it into the landscape. Also, use Spanish type iron porch fixtures for lights, etc. And one way to make those prominent soon-to-be brown garage doors look less imposing is to create a stucco-like archway over each door, again just for show, placed so that the doors will still operate, and you can consider making your doorway an arched one, a "fake" arch in front of the square door to save buying a new door. Maybe get some smallish palm-like plants to add to your landscaping, and a large terra cotta-colored plant pot with carvings on the porch.
Try to find a program online that will let you take a house that looks somewhat like yours and change the paint colors, so you'll KNOW it will look correct. And could be to balance the big brown garage doors, you'll need to make your front door brown, too.
GG
Thanks great advice!
Thank you all for sharing your imput.
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