Historic New England Exterior Paint Colors

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Historic new england exterior paint colors. Historic New Englands Historic Paint Chart. Combine these historically accurate paint color palettes for wall trim and accent colors that help you achieve a coordinated period look for the rooms in your home. Reds and browns work well in New England because these are the colors of that areas earth and rocks.

Trim was white or the same color as the body while shutters and doors were dark green or black. Shaker Red Redrock Canyon Cogswell Cedar Pumpkin Georgian Yellow Farmhouse Ochre Knightley Straw Asian Jute. The 1812 painting guide by Hezekiah Reynolds of CT advised a palette of white cream straw orange pea-green parrot green grass green red slate and black.

Exterior Door- Hawthorne Yellow from Benjamin Moore. Wishing you all a safe Memorial Day from New England. The Historic Color Collection consists of 149 colors researched by the Society for Preservation of New England Antiquities SPNEA.

I think that the colors from Old Village Paints represent 18th and 19th century paint colors fairly well. If your finished paint result isnt what youd imagined well replace your paint free. Paint colors therefore tended to reflect these pigments.

Today those proud reds and blues can be replicated with Authentic Colors of Historic Philadelphia a palette offered by Finnaren Haley. This is a great article on general colors schemes for historic houses. White was most often reserved as a trim color in the 18th century.

You can buy small cans if you are painting furniture. Find period-appropriate colors for houses of any era. Rodda Paint has an historic paint color collection.