What colour for the exterior??
Linda Barbara
8 years ago
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8 years agoHi Linda
At Bodo we recommend keeping exterior paint schemes very simple.
This is particularly true for small houses.
If you are prepared to be brave, you could paint the whole house in monument, including the fascia. You could also keep with your idea of the white fascia, as per the image below.
With the white window frames, and then the oiled decking, and monument as the main colour this falls within our 3 colour maximum exterior rule, and would make for a real showstopper.
Then just keep the interior and eaves white and bright.
Have a look at some of Bodo's amazing colour concept boards, which once downloaded will give you all of the colour names which your painter will be able to reference.
http://bodoboards.com.au/collections/paint-concept
Good Luck!
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