How To Match Shutters With Siding

Agate green by dunn edwards.

How to match shutters with siding.

Ask a helper to stand back to the street to examine how the siding looks. Cream and off white yellow gray red brick natural cedar shakes and even a monochromatic look with a lighter blue exterior. Or opt for something softer like powder blue shutters or seafoam green shutters. For shutters with hollow backs add the thickness of the shutter to the lap measurement for the length of the spacers.

An exception is if distinct architectural detail adds emphasis to the front door in which case you may want to highlight the effect with a distinct color that stands out from the rest of the home. If you have tan siding or stone midnight blue shutters really pop. To make your windows appear larger match the shutter color to the trim. Doors and shutters usually match unless one is painted and one features stained wood grain.

Spacers should be pre cut to the lap measurement and pre drilled with the same size hole as the shutter. Turn the shutter over. Other colors and exteriors that work well. Look at your home base trim and accent colors to help you narrow down your choice.

Shutter colors for white houses. With white house siding the sky is the limit when you are choosing shutter colors. Go bold with red shutters or black shutters. The shutter color does not have to match the other elements of your home i e.

Place spacers at hole locations. Shutter colors for gray houses. This home makes great use of this with an olive green siding and brick red shutters. Use silicone caulk to hold them in place.

It has a touch of new england formality but works in a small southern town catherine sloan catherine tracy sloan nashville and memphis. Polo mallet white rl1051. Take the samples home and hold them against the roof at a 90 degree angle to test how siding will look against the roof. Front door or trim.

On a house complementary colors are frequently used to add drama to your look. The siding is usually the lightest of the colors and either matched by the corner trim or framed with a darker trim. The muted tones of both the siding and the shutters match one another while the colors themselves contrast. Every shade is a match.

Complementary colors sit opposite one another on the color wheel and create more vivid dynamic views when used in the same place. You might for example introduce dark plum shutters to green mountain sage siding or use muted yellow woodland cream to highlight the dormers on a countrylane red house. Shutters front door. Black by dunn edwards siding.

On a colonial this warm white and grayed down navy make a timeless match.