Choosing the right house exterior color is not easy. As hard as you might try picturing your home in different colors, you fear you’ll choose wrong, but are stuck with it. It’s expensive to paint an entire house, whether you do it yourself or hire a painting crew.
While your house likely doesn’t look like the house we feature here, it’s possible showing you the same house in a wide array of colors in the color spectrum gives you an idea of the mood and look different colors have for a house exterior.
The original color of this colonial house is white. We then applied 25 different colors to that to compare them.
In the caption area of each image color I set out the Pantone color.
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Color comparison photos
White house exterior color example – Original color for this house design.
Yellow House Exterior – Pantone 100
Soft yellow house exterior – Pantone 127
Mustard yellow house exterior – Pantone 117
Taupe house exterior – Pantone 119
Orange house exterior color – Pantone 151
Brown-orange house exterior color – Pantone 160
Brown house exterior color – Pantone 161
Pink house exterior color – Pantone 162
Burgundy house exterior color – Pantone 175
Red house exterior color – Pantone 180
Light purple house exterior color example – Pantone 263
Purple house exterior color example – Pantone 222
Navy blue house exterior color example – Pantone 280
Dark blue house exterior color example – Pantone 282
Light blue house exterior example – Pantone 290
Sky blue house exterior example – Pantone 299
Light green house exterior example – Pantone 5807
Light green house exterior color example – Pantone 344
Blue green house exterior color example – Pantone 330
British racing green house exterior color example – Pantone 350
Light beige house exterior color example – Pantone 400
Dark beige house exterior color example – Pantone 404
Black house exterior color example – Pantone 419
Dark gray house exterior color example – Pantone 425
Light gray house exterior color example – Pantone 429
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