Choosing an Exterior Color Palette for House #7

At this stage of the game we don’t have to fully commit to our house colors for house number seven, but being that we’re building in a neighborhood with a homeowner’s association we do have to send in an application for approval with our architectural plans before we can begin the construction phase.  So we had to choose a “tentative color scheme” in order to get the construction process started.

A Rainbow of Colors from Which to Choose

Being that we live in Charleston, South Carolina, when it comes to selecting a house color, we truly have the rainbow from which to choose.  And while that’s very fun and exciting, it’s also a little overwhelming.  I mean, I’ve boldly and rather fearlessly chosen interiors colors (remember my dark navy bedroom walls and bold red living room in our fifth house?) and even front door colors, but a whole house color?!  Yikes, that’s a big commitment!  And a costly one to change if you get it wrong!

The colorful homes of the Charleston area have always drawn me in, so I definitely plan to have some fun in this area!  It seems almost criminal not to right?  For someone like myself who has always been a huge color lover, I see this as the perfect opportunity to play with a color that would be hard to pull off in another area of the country.

Colors of Historic Charleston

I’ve done a ton of exterior house color research and was happy to find that Sherwin Williams has an entire collection named ‘colors of historic charleston’!

And while these colors are wide and varied, it somehow feels a little safer and a little overwhelming to select an exterior shade from this collection.  It’s a more narrow view of the rainbow.  😉

*Fun fact – The green color of our current home, our sixth house, is apart of this collection ~ Salt Marsh.

Front Door Color – Sherwin Williams Rachel Pink

I wasn’t a fan of our green house color until I painted our front door pink, which was one of my very first house projects when we moved here three years ago!

Playing with Pink!

I’m not going to lie, I’m a little nervous about making such a bold house color choice for the exterior.  The neighborhood we’re building in is filled with lots of colorful homes ~ everything from aqua blues to sunny yellows and minty greens, and yes, there is even one home already dressed in pink.  And it’s that house that always makes me smile ear to ear when I drive by it, so I’m just going for it!  I’ve yet to nail down the exact shade of pink, but I’ve got plenty of time to make that decision.

I can’t wait to share more with you all and to see this house come to life!

If you had the rainbow to choose from, what house color would your heart desire?!