Exterior Painting Archives - Old House Journal Magazine

A handful of ways to create a proper period paint scheme.

Twentieth-century Capes sometimes stray from tradition.

Follow these guidelines to create cohesive Victorian color schemes.

Historical color experts suggest that this late Victorian cottage might be polychromed in period colors.

Paint colors of the past suggest combinations for early period and Colonial Revival houses today.

Black and white is classic, but it didn’t bring out the best in our Italianate.

Our expert updates original Sears paint colors on the most popular kit houses offered in the early 20th-century.

Author Brian Coleman gives us the inside scoop on how he selected the Victorian house paint colors for his fanciful Queen Anne.

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