Tampa, FL · Member since 2015 · 39 posts · 0 votes
This is a 1957 block home that I am planning to rent out once renovations are done (next week). The original plan was to paint the exterior a light green with white fascia, but one of the neighbors supposedly harassed my handyman today because the sample of the green I put on the outside too closely resembles the shade of green on his house (they're different shades and he was totally out of line, but he's not totally without merit). So now I'm having to reconsider the color. The problem is I generally hate almost every color on these solid block homes (I tend to think most dark colors look really bad on block), and the green was the only one I've seen that I've liked.
Any ideas (with pics if possible, esp. if the house was also a solid block like this one)? Fwiw, the opposite neighbors house is a dark grey.
I've been liking the light browns/tans with a greenish/avocado like color trim, perhaps some castle blocks rounding the front with flowers behind them..
I've been liking the light browns/tans with a greenish/avocado like color trim, perhaps some castle blocks rounding the front with flowers behind them..
I like the brown color as well, but I hate it over solid block. I've seen a few houses like that and they all look terrible. It's great over stucco, but there's just something about solid block that makes all these usually nice colors seem really dim.
Avocado was actually the color I was going to use that the neighbor yelled at my handyman about haha.
I say pale yellow too. I had a similar dilemma when paining my old house, which was also white. Every other color was taken, esp anything neutral. We tried lots of colors but ended up with Pale Yellow, hunter Green with a few small burgandy accents. We used this special textured deck paint for the porch. It covered all the cracks in the concrete and gave it a nice texture. It's expensive at 50 bucks a gallon but very worth it if you have cracked concrete.
The house on the other side of me is dark gray, so I'm basically opening up the same can of worms with the other neighbor if I went that route. If I'm gunna make a neighbor mad, I might as well get my first choice of color (the green) with it, you know? I'd prefer not to make any neighbors mad though.
who said every house on the street has to be a different color? There are only a handful of colors for houses. In your situation, I'd be tempted to buy a cheap can of the ugliest purple you could find, and give it a go.. Then see what the neighbor says.
If you make it hot pink with lime trim, I'll reimburse you for the paint! Must have photos! Then tell the neighbor it will cost him 2X what it cost you to repaint it a different color when they see it, and hate it!
who said every house on the street has to be a different color? There are only a handful of colors for houses. In your situation, I'd be tempted to buy a cheap can of the ugliest purple you could find, and give it a go.. Then see what the neighbor says.
I agree that it shouldn't be a big deal if consecutive houses are the same color (albeit in different shades), but at the same time I really don't want to go pissing off the neighbors. If my tenant is doing something they shouldn't be, then I'd want to be on good terms with the neighbors so that they'd tell me. Frankly, a neighbor who goes off on my handyman (not even me, the actual owner) about a paint color is probably not the guy I want to be on's bad side anyway.
Originally posted by @Richard D.:
If you make it hot pink with lime trim, I'll reimburse you for the paint! Must have photos! Then tell the neighbor it will cost him 2X what it cost you to repaint it a different color when they see it, and hate it!
If the neighbor gives me or any of my workers guff again about my paint samples or anything else we are doing, then I am absolutely taking you up on your offer. You'd think he'd be smart enough to realize that just mere fact that I'm having the house painted at all will bring up the value on his house by proxy.