TARA DILLARD: How Color Choice Affects the Size of Your Home

Calm, rustique, classic, nestled, below. What plays the major role in this Exterior Design? Color.
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Imagine home, below, with white trim. Pop. The house just moved forward, got smaller, the roof lowered, the garden shrunk. Merely, painting the trim white. Ironically, this home previously had a teal blue trim. Same effect, to lesser degree, than white.
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Everything is thriving, but we do need some rain - it's been very dry here in the Northeast. From my driveway, my house looks beautiful with the tan colored woodwork - it is such a change from the teal blue. Do you remember the old trim?:

Everything is thriving, but we do need some rain - it's been very dry here in the Northeast. From my driveway, my house looks beautiful with the tan colored woodwork - it is such a change from the teal blue. Do you remember the old trim?:

Pic, above, Martha Stewart.

In an area that is small, or with disparate components, here's the color trick, below. Did you already intuit the trick? Everything should be the same color, or color family.

My longtime housekeeper, Laura Acuna, set up some refreshments on the lower terrace parterre outside my kitchen. Some cool pomegranate iced-tea and some cheese wafers.:

My longtime housekeeper, Laura Acuna, set up some refreshments on the lower terrace parterre outside my kitchen. Some cool pomegranate iced-tea and some cheese wafers.:

Pic, above, Martha Stewart.
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Exterior color, if you haven't given it much thought, does potent work to every exterior. Make sure your exterior colors are doing the right potent work. Potent for good vs. potent for bad. It's your choice. Make every layer of narrative with color choices exterior/interior and you've just raised property value, and made every day in your home happier.
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Garden & Be Well, XO T

TARA DILLARD

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

How Color Choice Affects the Size of Your Home

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