Exterior Painting

Put the best face forward on your old house, with these articles about exterior painting styles, color schemes, historic color palettes and more.

Exterior Painting

Follow these guidelines to create cohesive Victorian color schemes.

By Patricia Poore

Second Empire cottage all-white paint scheme

Exterior Painting

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

A richly colored Federal house in Newport, Rhode Island, has a contrasting scheme is in patriotic blue and red.

Exterior Painting

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

A balanced polychrome paint scheme (top) enhances the house’s handsome details, which were dulled by the previous black and white (bottom).

Exterior Painting

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

The upper story and pergola of this Foursquare take cues from the mossy green of the variegated brickwork.

Exterior Painting

Seroco paints catalogs from Sears outlined color schemes for all of the company's mail-order houses. (All illustrations from the collection of John Crosby Freeman)

Exterior Painting

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

Exterior Painting

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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