Choosing Colours for Your Exterior Shutters

Exterior shutters are decisive when it comes to creating an overall visual impression of your home. Even though there are numerous factors to consider here, picking a shutter colour should be smart and not hard. With a little effort, reading and homework, any home owner can turn out to be a pro in making this critical decision. In this article, we will discuss a few points that you as a home-owner must consider while choosing a colour for your exterior shutter.

An overall look that you want for your Home: Conventional or Bold

Given the current character of your home and your vision for the same, all you have to decide is, which look is more apt: a conventional look or a bold look. What helps here is the - Familiarity with the history of your home plus good decision-making ability in designing the future of your home. For better decision – you may consider taking advice from an architect or exterior designers or specialists.

Regardless of whether you require the opinion from an expert or not, remember this: black or white exterior shutters look amazingly well with any colour scheme. Picking either of the two colour means you are giving a conventional look to your home, while choosing a colour other than these two means you want to produce a bold look for your home. There is no right or wrong here, all depends upon your taste and what you expect for your home.

Contemplate the existing colour scheme of your house

In the event that you are not re-roofing or re-siding your house, then it is important that you choose the colour of your shutter that goes hand in hand with the existing colour scheme of your house. This may appear glaringly evident, however, it's genuinely essential to limit your colour choices to the ones that fit with your roofing, window trim and siding colours.

Don’t worry, within an existing colour scheme, there is ‘N’ number of possibilities when it comes to shutter colours. Going by the general rules, light-coloured shutter makes your home look larger while the dark-coloured shutter makes it look smaller.

Pay attention to the colour scheme of your neighbourhood

We all have seen and driven past that one house that does not exactly harmonize into the neighbourhood. We consider fitting in a neighbourhood important for two reasons – firstly, it helps in maintaining good relations and secondly, it increases the worth of your house. For example: In plain-speaking, a garish coloured scheme house in a gentle-coloured neighbourhood won’t attract much value in the market. And coming to worst case scenario, the neighbourhood might even resent the odd appearance of your house. The strategy that would work here is – balance your exclusive expression with the appearance dictated by your neighbourhood. All things considered, giving respect to the rules and to people who live around you is your civic duty.

Complement or Contrast? 

 As soon as you are done with the first two choices – consider the existing colour scheme and paying attention to your neighbourhood, now is the time for you to decide whether you want your exterior shutters to complement or contrast the colours of your home.

For instance: If the house has light sidings, dark coloured shutters while harmonizing with the colour scheme will offer a welcoming contrast. Similarly, if the siding of your house is dark, light shutters will offer the required contrast. For a complementing look, try exterior shutters with a few shades lighter or darker than the existing siding colours.

Ask the Experts

It is difficult to predict exactly how your chosen shutter will actually look when installed. However, one thing that you can do to be doubly sure about your choice is to find the suggestion from the industry experts. These experts provide samples for their shutter colors, which you can use (by holding the sample against your house in real world light) and get the perfect picture of the color interaction you will create.

Just follow the steps and all you have is your most apt exterior shutter.