Curb Appeal Essentials
By Beverly Smirnis
Color Coordination is Key
Harris Interactive©
, one of the world's leading market research firms, has completed a comprehensive study on homeowner preferences for roofing and exterior home features. Some of the key findings of the Harris survey commissioned by DaVinci Roofscapes®
include:
A vast majority of homeowners (88 percent) across all regions of the country see the exterior of their homes as one entity and not a sum of its separate components.
Color preference for exterior features on the home is driven mostly by homeowners' individual sense of style (45 percent) and their desire to blend in with their surroundings (42 percent).
One-third of surveyed homeowners (32 percent) indicate that they are restricted on the color palettes they are allowed to use on exterior features of their homes, usually by a homeowner association or by historical area requirements.
Curb appeal is considered extremely/very important to higher end homeowners
Photo, courtesy of DaVinci Roofscapes.
According to national color expert Kate Smith, people tend to identify their personalities with specific colors, all of which fall into either the “warm” or “cool” classifications. “A home exterior also has a color personality,” says Smith, chief color maven and owner of Sensational Color and a consultant to DaVinci Roofscapes. “A 'cool' home may feature blues, greens and purples as the primary colors in the siding, entryway and roofing. On the flip side, a 'warm' home exterior would have more focus on neutral colors plus hues in yellow, orange and red.”
Whether your scheme is warm or cool, Smith recommends starting at the top of the house with a blend of colors in the roofing tiles to set the overall tone for the home. You can then move down the house by picking up complimentary colors for the second most visible aspect of the home — its siding.
“There are wonderful accent variations within cool and warm color families that can contrast with the overall color scheme to provide visual balance on a home's exterior. For instance, you could have a warm roof on a home that includes light brown, medium brown, dark stone and dark tan tiles matched up with neutral colored siding. Then, add a pop of a cooler color such as deep teal or hunter green for the shutters, trim and front entryway.
The changes in copper over time can make it challenging to select a roof color that looks good with every “face” of the copper long-term. True copper roof accents have many faces—from the newly-installed gleam of shiny yellow-orange that morphs over time to the deep brown, then green and finally a dullish blue-green color that occurring from the oxidizing process. “Ideally you want to select a roof color — or blend of colors — that will complement the copper accents on the roof as it gains its patina from exposure to the sun and rain,” says Kate Smith, national color expert with DaVinci Roofscapes®
will look like a year after it's been installed and make your color selection based on the semi-final green-gray color that most copper pieces transform into.”
12 GREATER DFW METROPLEX BUILDING SAVVY MAGAZINE IXII . “My recommendation is to think about what the copper
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