What Color Should My Shutters Be?

Photo of Marvin home/Keller Williams

When choosing color for your shutters, there are several factors you should consider before going ahead with your painting project.

First of all, do you have any color restrictions from an HOA?

Do you have a color picked out?

Will your neighbors like it?

Seriously though, not that your neighbors will be a deciding factor on your color choice or not but I do recall a neighbor having a Pistachio green house and it was hard on the eyes. But - chances are that won't happen - at least let's hope so.

Getting back to color. Do you have some favorite hues in mind? Do you want the color to blend with the house or to coordinate with it? If you have a traditional home, you really should stick to a more traditional color scheme. Either way, your color choice needs to somehow relate to the style, age and restrictions of your home. Here's what I suggest.

In this Marvin home from the Keller Williams website you can see it's your basic large brick home with black shutters - very ordinary and safe. Since this home is for sale, that's a good thing!

So if you bought this home, what would your color options be? Here's some of my suggestions. These are the very typical colors that you will see in just about every home in just about any neighborhood.

Now these two colors are a little out of the norm but certainly are a beautiful and unique choice.

This is Antique Burgundy by Valspar. Now I do have HOA restrictions and snuck this color in. I didn't put it on my shutters (they are charcoal gray) just my front door. 

The great thing about this color is that in the daytime, it appears to be black UNTIL full sun happens to be on the front door then it has a distinctive purple appearance - very much like eggplant. I would be very careful if you use this color. It will not go with most home colors or styles, mine happens to be a light gray color with a contemporary flair so it works well.

Here is another color that is somewhat unusual for a shutter color. The home I used this “teal” for was an older ranch home that had a lot of blue tones in the brick which is how this hue ties in and it looked beautiful!

So if you're thinking about painting your shutter or front door and you need color help, contact me to help you with your choices. You certainly don't want to have to do this project twice :-)