How To Match Shutters With Siding

As the old saying goes if it ain t broke don t fix it this 1920s era tudor style home looks just as it did back in the day with black louvered shutters and sophisticated matching front door gorgeously complementing the blue gray wood shingle siding.

How to match shutters with siding.

Go bold with red shutters or black shutters. The siding is usually the lightest of the colors and either matched by the corner trim or framed with a darker 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.

Use silicone caulk to hold them in place. Front door or trim. Cream and off white yellow gray red brick natural cedar shakes and even a monochromatic look with a lighter blue exterior. Polo mallet white rl1051.

For shutters with hollow backs add the thickness of the shutter to the lap measurement for the length of the spacers. On a colonial this warm white and grayed down navy make a timeless match. The shutter color does not have to match the other elements of your home i e. If you have tan siding or stone midnight blue shutters really pop.

Place spacers at hole locations. Shutter colors for gray houses. With white house siding the sky is the limit when you are choosing shutter colors. The muted tones of both the siding and the shutters match one another while the colors themselves contrast.

Black by dunn edwards siding. To make your windows appear larger match the shutter color to the trim. Complementary colors sit opposite one another on the color wheel and create more vivid dynamic views when used in the same place. It has a touch of new england formality but works in a small southern town catherine sloan catherine tracy sloan nashville and memphis.

Other colors and exteriors that work well. Every shade is a match. Or opt for something softer like powder blue shutters or seafoam green shutters. Take the samples home and hold them against the roof at a 90 degree angle to test how siding will look against the roof.

On a house complementary colors are frequently used to add drama to your look. 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. Agate green by dunn edwards. Ask a helper to stand back to the street to examine how the siding looks.

Shutter colors for white houses. Choose an exterior shutter color that complements your home. Shutters front door. Turn the shutter over.

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.