Choosing Exterior Siding Colors for your Naperville Home

by | Nov 5, 2012 | Windows

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Determining the right siding, Naperville color for your home is not a casual decision especially when dealing with vinyl siding. This is due to the permanent nature of vinyl siding. The exterior color scheme has to express your aesthetic sense without any doubts whatsoever. The scheme has to be an attractive element in the neighborhood and surrounding landscape. Professional siding Naperville companies recommend the use of complementary colors in an exterior color scheme such as a pink exterior in a green surrounding.

In order to come up with a good choice for your siding color, a professional siding installer requires color swatches and a digital camera. During the siding installation process, there are elements of your house that the siding will not cover such as shutters, doors and roof. The siding color so chosen should blend in with colors of these house parts. A close-up photo image of these elements comes in handy when doing a comparison against the color swatches of possible sidings. Holding the close up photo and the color swatches will give you a good idea of whether the two are compatible.

All homes have surrounding landscape elements as well as fauna that have dominant colors. In order for a home to stand out from a particular surrounding, competent siding, Naperville firms will advice that you use complementary colors. For example, if your surroundings are generally green for most of the year, red siding will be an excellent choice for your house. If you reside in a dry area such as the desert, where the dominant colors are shades of orange and yellow, then a blue-green color scheme will result in a splendid look. If on the other hand you want to blend in with the surroundings, go with a similar color tone. A neutral effect is quite easy to achieve with an earth or gray tone.

Apart from considering elements that will not have the siding and the surrounding color tones, it is also important to consider the interior color scheme. Your entire home is one big composition that includes both the outside part and the interior. As such, choose a color scheme that is in accord with your overall interior design. Siding, Naperville also advises extensive consultations even with your neighbors. They might have some excellent color notions.

Once you have successfully settled on the color of the siding, you have to select a second color for the vinyl trim. A good strategy when selecting the trim colors is to work with tints and shades of the same colors that you going to use on the siding. More often than not, these tints and shades end up in perfect harmony with the dominant siding color.

 

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