Roofing & Exterior
See the Color on Your House Before You Live With It
A chip in the store and a coat on your siding are two different colors. We put real Sherwin-Williams samples on the actual wall, in the light your house actually gets, and build a body, trim, and accent palette you won't regret.
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Signs to watch
Is this you?
The chip looked right, the wall looks wrong
A two-inch chip under store lighting reads nothing like a whole wall under a gray Northwest sky. Undertones you never noticed indoors show up cool, green, or washed-out once they're up in real daylight.
You can't picture body, trim, and accent together
Picking one color is hard. Getting the body, the trim, the front door, and the shutters to work as a set — without one of them fighting the others — is where most people freeze.
Your HOA has to approve it
A lot of communities keep an approved palette or require the board to sign off. Choosing something you love and then getting it rejected costs you the whole selection over again.
It's a big commitment and you only get one shot
Repainting the whole exterior to fix a color you second-guessed is an expensive way to learn. A little time up front is a lot cheaper than repainting a house you already painted.
Your options
The house tells you the color — not the store
We work in Sherwin-Williams and start where color actually gets decided: on your wall. We brush real sample sections onto the body and trim so you can watch them shift from morning to overcast to late afternoon, because Northwest light is flat and cool and it changes what a color does. From there we build the whole palette as a set — body, trim, accent, and front door that read as intentional together — and factor in your fixed elements: roof color, stone, brick, and the neighbors you sit next to. If there's an HOA, we steer toward choices that clear its palette the first time.
The method
How we do it
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Talk through the house and the goal
We look at your siding, roof, and any stone or brick you can't change, listen to what you're drawn to, and narrow the field to a handful of directions worth sampling instead of guessing from a fan deck.
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Sample on the actual wall
We put real coats on the house — body, trim, and accent — and you live with them for a day or two, watching how they read in morning light, flat overcast, and evening before anything is final.
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Lock the palette in writing
Once it's right, we document the exact colors, sheens, and where each one goes, so the crew paints precisely what you approved and you have a record for your files or the HOA.
Straight numbers
What drives a color consultation
The main drivers are how many colors you're coordinating and how many sample sections it takes to feel settled — a single body-color refresh is simpler than a full body, trim, accent, and door scheme on a multi-surface house. Homes with a lot of fixed elements to work around, like a strong roof color, stone, or brick, take a bit more sampling to get right. When the consultation leads into a repaint we're doing, we roll it into the project rather than treating it as a separate line.
Where we do this work
Color Consultation: straight answers
Why not just pick from the fan deck at the store?
Because a chip is tiny and lit by store lighting, and your house is a big surface under Northwest daylight. Colors gain or lose undertones at scale and in cool, flat light — the greens, grays, and beiges especially. Sampling on the wall is the only way to see what you're actually buying.
How many colors should a whole-house scheme have?
Most exteriors land on a body color, a trim color, and one accent — often the front door — with the roof acting as a fixed fourth element you build around. We help you keep it coordinated rather than adding colors that end up competing with each other.
Can you help with HOA-approved colors?
Yes. If your community keeps an approved palette or requires board sign-off, we work within it and help you choose something you'll actually like from what's allowed — and we document the selection so it's easy to submit for approval.
Do I have to hire you to paint to get a color consultation?
It's usually part of planning a repaint with us, and when it leads into a job we're doing, we fold it into the project. If you want the palette worked out first before committing to the paint work, tell us and we'll talk through how to handle it.
Get the color consultation conversation started.
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