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Choosing Exterior Paint Colors with Confidence: Tips, Tricks, and Practical Advice · Repcolite Home Improvement Show

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Speaker 1: Well, good morning, everybody. Happy Saturday. You're listening to the
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Speaker 1: Repco Light Home improvement show sponsored by Benjamin Moore. You're
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Speaker 1: starting your Saturday off like a champion. How are y'all doing?
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Speaker 1: How was your week? That's the bigger question. Saturday, Sunday,
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Speaker 1: these are gonna be great days. How was your week?
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Speaker 1: Was it great? Was it memorable? Did you do something
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Speaker 1: you know that your family maybe you know, maybe we'll
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Speaker 1: be reminding you of for years to come. Did anything
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Speaker 1: like that happen happen to you? Well? I did that, Absolutely,
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Speaker 1: I did that, And even for me, this is embarrassing.
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Speaker 1: But I'm going to tell you about it briefly before
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Speaker 1: I get into the show, just because it's on my mind,
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Speaker 1: and maybe this will exercise it, you know, cast it
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Speaker 1: out of my mind so I don't have to think
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Speaker 1: about it anymore. Anyway. The other night, we had hot
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Speaker 1: dogs and sweet corn for dinner, and we love sweet corn.
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Speaker 1: I have always loved sweet corn since I was but
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Speaker 1: a wee lad. But the problem with sweet as you're
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Speaker 1: all well aware, is that it's not easy to eat
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Speaker 1: in a very dignified manner. Right. It's like ribs or
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Speaker 1: something in that regard. You've got that cob. It's covered
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Speaker 1: in butter. You know, it's dripping everywhere, you're running it
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Speaker 1: across your face like like it's the carriage of a typewriter.
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Speaker 1: It's just messy, right, It's a given. We're all equals
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Speaker 1: when we're eating sweet corn. You know, there's no royalty
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Speaker 1: when you're eating sweet corn, or at least no dignified royalty,
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Speaker 1: because I can't imagine a polished way, a classy way
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Speaker 1: to eat corn on the cob. It's not that kind
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Speaker 1: of food anyway. I made it ten times worse on accident. Now, basically,
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Speaker 1: this is a non story. There's really I don't even
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Speaker 1: know how to tell it. It's not really a chain
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Speaker 1: of events. It's a non story. I don't even know
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Speaker 1: what happened. I don't know what caused all of this
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Speaker 1: to happen. I was working my way across the cob,
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Speaker 1: you know, eating away, and I was thinking, as I
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Speaker 1: always do when I'm doing that, I'm thinking that I
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Speaker 1: look like a little typewriter, right, just clicking my way along.
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Speaker 1: And then when I get to the end, I always
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Speaker 1: think there should be a bell that goes ding, and
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Speaker 1: then I can return to the other end of the
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Speaker 1: cop and keep working, you know, my way back again
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Speaker 1: like a typewriter. I'm sure everybody thinks those exact same thoughts.
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Speaker 1: I'm doing that, all right, that's happening at the table.
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking those things, and I must this is all
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Speaker 1: I can think. I must have made some kind of ridiculous,
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Speaker 1: deep in thought face, you know, as I'm working my
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Speaker 1: way across the corn on the cop something like that.
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Speaker 1: I was doing something odd because I happened to look
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Speaker 1: up as I'm munching, and Hannah, who's sitting next to
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Speaker 1: me on my left, is staring straight into my soul
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Speaker 1: and not just steering. She's got this ridiculous grin on
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Speaker 1: her face. Her mouth is, you know, just wide open
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Speaker 1: in this mid laugh. I don't know what to call it,
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Speaker 1: a silent laugh of hilarity. Her eyes are just streaming tears.
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Speaker 1: She is absolutely just having a moment laughing at something
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Speaker 1: I'm doing. And she's holding it all in. It's all silent,
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Speaker 1: and I catch that, you know, that rapture of hilarity
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Speaker 1: on her face, and I'm sorry, but I completely exploded.
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Speaker 1: I laughed so hard, so instantly and boisterously. I couldn't
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Speaker 1: help it, And of course I had my mouth full
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Speaker 1: of sweet corn, sweet precious sweet corn, so delicious full
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Speaker 1: in my mouth, and I laugh. You can only imagine.
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Speaker 1: In fact, you can't imagine the scene that played out.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure you're gonna try to imagine. Then you're gonna
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Speaker 1: wish you hadn't. But it was just like some kind
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Speaker 1: of scene from a war movie. I exploded and sweet
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Speaker 1: corn went from the head of the table everywhere. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna be finding sweet corn on the blinds
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Speaker 1: for months to come. I'm gonna be finding sweet corn
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Speaker 1: kernels in all kinds of crazy places, and everybody's gonna say,
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Speaker 1: why is this here? And then they're gonna remember this
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Speaker 1: moment again and we're gonna relive it. I sprayed my
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Speaker 1: entire family with food, completely unintentionally. The worst part of
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Speaker 1: it all was not just the look of you know,
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Speaker 1: people laughing about it, because that came later sometimes for
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Speaker 1: a couple of kids, much later. The main thing was
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Speaker 1: just this look of sheer disgust. Somehow they thought I
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Speaker 1: did this on purpose, that just out of the blue,
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Speaker 1: I decided I'm gonna spray sweetcorn across the table for
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Speaker 1: no reason, just because the meal wasn't exciting enough. Perhaps. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be eating in ponchos for years
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Speaker 1: to come. They're for sure gonna be laughing about this
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Speaker 1: as time goes by. That was my week. That was
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Speaker 1: just part of my week. That is how I roll. Yeah, Normally,
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Speaker 1: normally I embarrassed myself at least once or twice during
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Speaker 1: a week. This one was big. This one was so
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Speaker 1: gross and so big, so I decided to share it
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Speaker 1: on the radio with the more people. That's how my
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Speaker 1: brain works. I don't get it either. Anyway, let's move
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Speaker 1: on to the show. Let's talk about important things on
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Speaker 1: the show. This week. I'm going to be talking all
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Speaker 1: about choosing exterior paint colors with confidence. That's going to
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Speaker 1: be the whole show, and it's going to apply to
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Speaker 1: not just paint, but yeah, siding colors, roofing colors. I'm
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Speaker 1: going to give you some tips and tricks to just
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Speaker 1: help you make that decision a little more confidently, you know,
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Speaker 1: because have you ever been in that boat where you've
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Speaker 1: got to choose exterior colors? You know, you're sitting there
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Speaker 1: rifling through fandex. You're trying to decide what colors would
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Speaker 1: be perfect for your home. Have you ever been there?
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Speaker 1: And like I said, it could be paint colors, but
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Speaker 1: it could also be you know, things like roof colors,
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Speaker 1: siding colors, even just front door colors. It's a big decision,
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Speaker 1: you know, you're trying to figure out the right color.
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Speaker 1: Have you ever been there? Well, if you did go
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Speaker 1: through that process of picking colors for the exterior of
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Speaker 1: your home, the exterior of your home or for an
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Speaker 1: outbuilding on your property, you know, the process can be
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Speaker 1: a little dicey. You know. Maybe for you it was
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Speaker 1: smooth like butter I don't know, smooth like butter on
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Speaker 1: the cob, I don't know. Or maybe it was bumpy,
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Speaker 1: like my experience with corn on the cob. My children
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Speaker 1: were very bumpy after being covered with sweet corn. That's
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Speaker 1: just ridiculous analogy. But was it smooth for you picking
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Speaker 1: those colors or was it a bumpy process? I don't
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Speaker 1: know how it worked for you. It doesn't really matter.
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Speaker 1: I did a little googling about how other real people
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Speaker 1: felt about the process of choosing colors for the exterior
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Speaker 1: of their home, and here are some, just just a
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Speaker 1: few of my favorite quotes describing their experiences, maybe yours
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Speaker 1: have been similar. Number one. The first quote I loved,
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Speaker 1: and it's this quote. I cried a lot. Actually, I
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Speaker 1: love that one. I cried a lot. Actually another quote,
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Speaker 1: it was the most stressed I've ever been. They've clearly
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Speaker 1: never eaten with me, but this was still a stressful
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Speaker 1: experience for that person. A third person, after getting their
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Speaker 1: house painted, they assessed the freshly painted house and said
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Speaker 1: it looked quote so childish. It was like a smurf house,
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Speaker 1: and I couldn't afford to have it repainted. All right.
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Speaker 1: Can you feel the stress coming from those situations, those quotes,
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Speaker 1: If you've got any imagination at all, you definitely can.
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Speaker 1: It's a big deal. Having a house painted isn't cheap.
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Speaker 1: The materials themselves, the paint itself, it's not expensive, but
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Speaker 1: the labor is. And doing it yourself, you know, that's
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Speaker 1: a huge money saver. But it's a lot of work,
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Speaker 1: and if you haven't done it before, it's a really
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Speaker 1: big project. If you've done it before, it's a big project.
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Speaker 1: You maybe feel a little more comfortable about it, but
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Speaker 1: it's still a big project. And to do all of that,
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Speaker 1: you know, to pay all that money, or do all
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Speaker 1: of that work and then not love the results. Well,
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Speaker 1: that's scary, that's stressful. On top of that, you know,
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Speaker 1: the exterior of your home, it's visible to everybody who
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Speaker 1: drives by. You know, if you make a mistake with
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Speaker 1: the color in your living room and your family sees it,
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Speaker 1: you know, that's it. It's not fun. But you know
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Speaker 1: that's the group of people who are seeing your miss
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Speaker 1: and most likely they've seen you make far, far worse
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Speaker 1: mistakes than that, so it's not a big deal. But
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Speaker 1: you make a mistake on the exterior of your home,
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Speaker 1: the exterior color, and the world is going to know
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Speaker 1: about it, and the world is going to talk about it, right,
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Speaker 1: They're going to talk about it. You know they do,
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Speaker 1: because you do and I do. We all walk past
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Speaker 1: or drive past homes that have no terrible, ridiculous color schemes,
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Speaker 1: and we can't help but talk about them. You know
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Speaker 1: what happened here? You know, we're very curious. We want
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Speaker 1: to know how this happened. And you don't want to
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Speaker 1: be the focus of conversations like that across your neighborhood.
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Speaker 1: You don't want to be the butt of all those jokes.
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Speaker 1: So let's fix that. And to do that, I'm going
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Speaker 1: to spend the show adapting a color training that we've
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Speaker 1: got for our employees at Repcolite. Haley you remember her.
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Speaker 1: She was on the show with me for a year
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Speaker 1: and a half, two years something like that, and she
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Speaker 1: left the show about a year or so ago so
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Speaker 1: she could focus on training all of our employees on
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Speaker 1: product tools, color things like that. And recently she just
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Speaker 1: rolled out her newest training module and it's a training
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Speaker 1: design to help us help you find the right exterior
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Speaker 1: color when you come into Repcolite. Now, this training it
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Speaker 1: was so so good, so really good, that's what I
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Speaker 1: was going to say, so good that I decided I've
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Speaker 1: got to adapt it here and present it to you
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Speaker 1: with a few of my own thoughts kind of mixed in.
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Speaker 1: And you'll know which ones those are because they're kind
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Speaker 1: of the boneheaded ones or the off off topic ones.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, this is largely Haley's info. I wanted to
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Speaker 1: make sure I gave her the props and the credit
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Speaker 1: for it, because she did a great job with it.
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Speaker 1: All right, First things first, this first segment, let's talk
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Speaker 1: about some important ground rules for picking exterior colors. You know,
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Speaker 1: when you're getting ready to select exterior colors for your home,
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Speaker 1: for your shutters, your front door, your shed, whatever. First thing,
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Speaker 1: the more light there is, the lighter color is going
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Speaker 1: to look. So outdoors with the sun as a light source,
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Speaker 1: and as far as light sources go, that's a big one.
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Speaker 1: You know. I can't think of a bigger light source
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Speaker 1: than the sun. So with the sun as a light source,
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Speaker 1: your colors are going to look two to three shades
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Speaker 1: lighter on an exterior than that same color would look
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Speaker 1: inside the home. That's really important to remember. I've seen
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Speaker 1: people pick a light gray, for example, that's clearly gray
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Speaker 1: on the color chip. You know, they look at it,
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Speaker 1: it's clearly a mid tone gray. They might even think,
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Speaker 1: And I've seen these same people come back in later
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Speaker 1: to say that it looks almost white outside. You want
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Speaker 1: to avoid that mistake, and you do that by selecting
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Speaker 1: colors that are a couple of shades darker than you
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Speaker 1: want it to look in the end. Now, I know
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Speaker 1: that feels counterintuitive, but that's how it works, and you're
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Speaker 1: going to be glad you adjusted your palette accordingly. So
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Speaker 1: remember that second thing, second ground rule or rule of
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Speaker 1: thumb is if you're painting more than just your front
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Speaker 1: door or your shutters, remember that you're working on a
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Speaker 1: huge canvas. You know, if you're doing the exterior of
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Speaker 1: your home, it's a huge canvas. And that larger scale
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Speaker 1: means that those colors, you know, the colors you pick,
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Speaker 1: they can easily become overwhelming. Remember that person from earlier
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Speaker 1: who described her house as a smurf house, what's going
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Speaker 1: on in that situation is exactly this. She picked a
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Speaker 1: color that most likely looked good when it was presented
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Speaker 1: in smaller doses. However, once it covered the entire exterior,
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Speaker 1: it gained strength from that large scale exposure and it
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Speaker 1: ended up looking ridiculous, like a smurf house. And you
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Speaker 1: don't want that. So you avoid that by looking for
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Speaker 1: toned colors that have some gray in them. And this
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Speaker 1: makes them easier on the eyes. It just makes them
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Speaker 1: feel more sophisticated, easier to look at. It just doesn't
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Speaker 1: overwhelm you. So to help with this, check out some
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Speaker 1: color collections like Benjamin Moore's Affinity or Historic Collections, both
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Speaker 1: of those are great, or even their Williamsburg color collection.
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Speaker 1: Williamsburg is basically one hundred and forty four muted tones
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Speaker 1: or hues inspired by eighteenth century colonial homes. All of
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Speaker 1: these fandex that I listed, Affinity, the Historic Collections, the
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Speaker 1: Williamsburg Color Collection, all of them are safe bets and
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Speaker 1: they're going to scale beautifully on big surfaces. So that's
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Speaker 1: going to give you a safety net there. Check out
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Speaker 1: those color collections, all right. Third thing, last thing, Sample
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Speaker 1: your colors. We sell Benjamin More color samples that will
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Speaker 1: put real paint in your hands. You can actually brush
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Speaker 1: it onto the surface that you're going to be painting.
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Speaker 1: It's worth going through this work. You're not going to
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Speaker 1: regret it. So paint a large area at least two
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Speaker 1: foot by two foot on the siding of the house
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Speaker 1: or the brick or whatever you're painting, if possible. That's
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Speaker 1: way better than just painting a smooth piece of foam
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Speaker 1: board or poster board because the texture, believe it or not,
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Speaker 1: the texture on your siding can change how that color looks.
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Speaker 1: So paint the actual siding and then observe it morning, noon, night,
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Speaker 1: and make sure that it's the vibe you're going for.
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Speaker 1: All right, that's just the beginning. Let's take a break
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Speaker 1: and when we come back, Let's talk about the next
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Speaker 1: big thing to think about, and that's the existing colors
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Speaker 1: on your home. You know, things that aren't going to
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Speaker 1: be changing. You've got to keep those in mind. And
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Speaker 1: we'll talk about that in just a minute, and stick
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Speaker 1: around and we're back. You're listening to the Repco Light
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Speaker 1: Home improvement Show sponsored by Benjamin Moore, and this week
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Speaker 1: we're talking about how to safely and confidently choose exterior
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Speaker 1: paint colors or I guess it could be siding colors,
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Speaker 1: door colors, shutter colors, whatever. All right, let's talk about
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Speaker 1: the importance of taking into account the existing materials that
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Speaker 1: you're working with, basically, the constraints that are in place
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Speaker 1: before you even start looking at colors. Now I'm thinking
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Speaker 1: you're landscaping your roof, gutters and down spouts, window casings
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Speaker 1: and grills and so on. Now, all of these materials,
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Speaker 1: they're in place on your home, and they're heavily going
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Speaker 1: to influence or constrain your exterior color choices. And that
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Speaker 1: kind of sounds a bit like a bummer, it does,
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Speaker 1: But there is a bit of good news here. And
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Speaker 1: even if you don't have exterior painting projects coming up,
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Speaker 1: tune back into me for a second. Come back to me, folks,
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Speaker 1: just for a second, because this applies to interioror painting
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Speaker 1: as well, and it honestly applies to a huge part
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Speaker 1: of life. I mean, I'm dishing out some philosophical life
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Speaker 1: help or whatever. I'm not helping you with your English.
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Speaker 1: I'm just helping you with your lives. So this is
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Speaker 1: all good stuff. These items that I'm talking about, they're constraints,
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Speaker 1: and we always have constraints when we do anything. You know,
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Speaker 1: let's talk about projects in general. Though. There's budget constraints.
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Speaker 1: There's the layout of the home. There's the furniture that
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Speaker 1: we can't afford to replace right now. You know, appliances
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Speaker 1: that are this color or that color. There's a tub
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Speaker 1: and a toilet. All of those things are in place,
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Speaker 1: and we don't always replace all of those, so we've
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Speaker 1: got to deal with them. They're constraints. Outside there's the roof,
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Speaker 1: the landscaping, so on. All of these things constrain our
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Speaker 1: color choices. And when we hear that, we tend to
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Speaker 1: feel bummed. Like I said, we feel that our creativity
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Speaker 1: is being leashed or muzzled, and in a way it is,
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Speaker 1: and we tend to tell ourselves that I could pick
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Speaker 1: colors more easily and have a lot more fun if
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Speaker 1: I didn't have these limits. And that's where things get
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Speaker 1: a little cloudy, And that's where the good news comes in,
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Speaker 1: because it turns out that in reality, for the most part,
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Speaker 1: when we've got unlimited options, you know, unlimited freedom, we
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Speaker 1: tend to freeze up. It's kind of interesting. Boundaries and
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Speaker 1: limits and constraints actually help us dial in our choices
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Speaker 1: and start making productive decisions quicker. The things that feel
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Speaker 1: like limits, you know, a budget, architecture, existing materials, they're
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Speaker 1: actually giving us a place to push off from a
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Speaker 1: foundation for creativity and psychology. It's backed up by research.
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Speaker 1: Constraints Spark innovation studies show that small obstacles can increase
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Speaker 1: creative problem solving by nearly forty percent. So rather than
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Speaker 1: think of your home's roof color, or your budget or
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Speaker 1: your landscaping as strictly limitations, instead see them as pathways
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Speaker 1: giving you a direction. Okay, with that said, let's look
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Speaker 1: at some of these limitations or existing items that you
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Speaker 1: absolutely have to take into account when choosing colors and
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Speaker 1: look for how you can lean into them on your
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Speaker 1: home or use their nudgings to kind of get you
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Speaker 1: moving in the right direction, right, the right color direction.
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Speaker 1: Let's start with the landscaping. It's a big one and
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Speaker 1: it's easy to overlook if you're choosing colors in winter
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Speaker 1: or early spring when nothing's blooming. But the landscape plays
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Speaker 1: a major role in how your home looks. If you've
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Speaker 1: got a lot of green stuff going on, a lot
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Speaker 1: of green stuff, if you've got a lot of green
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Speaker 1: out there in your landscaping, hostas ferns, evergreens, don't choose
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Speaker 1: a green exterior. Too much of that, all of that green,
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Speaker 1: and the house is going to just disappear into the yard.
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Speaker 1: Say goes for white. If you've got lots of white
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Speaker 1: blossoms in the spring, maybe skip white for the body color.
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Speaker 1: Look at the dominant tones in your landscaping and choose
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Speaker 1: colors that compliment, not match, or compete with them all right. Next,
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Speaker 1: watch out for unpainted materials that you're leaving as is, stonework,
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Speaker 1: brick block foundations. They can all be painted, but if
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Speaker 1: you're not doing that, those tones should absolutely guide your
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Speaker 1: color choices. And it seems obvious, but there's a house
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Speaker 1: that I drive by often that missed this. Their stone
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Speaker 1: has this bluish cool, bluish tone and the new sighting
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Speaker 1: it's a color that clashes completely. It looks fine head
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Speaker 1: on because you don't see the stone from the front
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Speaker 1: of the house, but from an angle where the stone
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Speaker 1: in the side you meet, it's jarring. It's just really,
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Speaker 1: really wrong. You can tell it's wrong. It's a mistake
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Speaker 1: that was probably only obvious after the job was done.
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Speaker 1: Don't get caught that way. Let those permanent features inform
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Speaker 1: your palette. Same goes for gutters and down spots. They
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Speaker 1: can be changed or painted. They can be, but if
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Speaker 1: you're not planning on that, don't forget to factor them in.
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Speaker 1: Facia and sophets fall into the same category. Two. Last
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Speaker 1: of all, the roof, the biggest, probably least flexible element
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Speaker 1: of all. Roofs don't get changed often, so the color
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Speaker 1: really matters up there now. In general, the body of
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Speaker 1: the house should be lighter than the roof to maintain balance.
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Speaker 1: If you've got a gray or a black roof, stick
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Speaker 1: to cool tones like blues and grays. If you've got
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Speaker 1: a brown roof, then warm tones like beige, tope or
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Speaker 1: red can be a safer bat Now. I know I
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Speaker 1: didn't give out a lot of specific color direction in
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Speaker 1: that segment. That wasn't really my goal. I wasn't trying
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Speaker 1: to lay out a lot of color recommendations for everybody's situation.
17:57
Speaker 1: I really just wanted to bring to mind all of
17:59
Speaker 1: the different things that you want to keep in mind
18:01
Speaker 1: as you start making your color choices. You know, certain
18:04
Speaker 1: aspects are easy to forget about and that can end
18:06
Speaker 1: up biting you. Just keep these things in mind and
18:10
Speaker 1: think of these materials, these existing colors, as you know,
18:14
Speaker 1: maybe has bread crumbs that can lead you to certain
18:17
Speaker 1: color choices. Like I guess Hansel and Gretel had the
18:20
Speaker 1: bread crumbs, but I guess the birds ate the bread crumbs,
18:22
Speaker 1: so maybe these are bread crumbs that the birds won't eat.
18:25
Speaker 1: Think of them that way. Things that are leading you
18:28
Speaker 1: to certain color choices, their hints that your home is
18:31
Speaker 1: giving you. Listen to those hints. It's going to help
18:33
Speaker 1: you cut through the clutter of the color rack and
18:35
Speaker 1: you'll eliminate thousands and thousands of options, and you'll reduce
18:39
Speaker 1: the color rack to just a couple of color families.
18:41
Speaker 1: It can really help, So keep that in mind. All right,
18:44
Speaker 1: let's take a break, and when we come back, let's
18:46
Speaker 1: look at how a home's architecture does or doesn't need
18:49
Speaker 1: to inform your color selections. That's all coming up next.
18:52
Speaker 1: Stick around. You're listening to the Repcolite Home Improvement Show
19:04
Speaker 1: Exterior Color Selection Training Extravaganza sponsored by Benjamin Moore. Basically,
19:11
Speaker 1: I'm walking you through the best I can through a
19:14
Speaker 1: color training that we go through at Repcolite so we
19:16
Speaker 1: can help you when you're searching for exterior colors for
19:19
Speaker 1: your home. Haley, I'm sure you remember Haley, she used
19:23
Speaker 1: to be on the show. Haley put this all together
19:25
Speaker 1: and brought it to our stores just recently, and I
19:28
Speaker 1: thought it was so good that I adapted it so
19:31
Speaker 1: I could work it, you know, put it here on
19:33
Speaker 1: the show and get it out to you guys. So
19:36
Speaker 1: that's what I'm working through now. What I want to
19:39
Speaker 1: get to is I want to talk about the architectural
19:41
Speaker 1: style of your home and how that should or maybe
19:45
Speaker 1: doesn't need to influence your color decisions. You know, depending
19:49
Speaker 1: on the style of your home, we may find ourselves feeling,
19:53
Speaker 1: I guess, locked in to certain color schemes. Sometimes we
19:56
Speaker 1: know what those color schemes include and other times times
20:00
Speaker 1: other times we just don't you know, maybe we're new
20:03
Speaker 1: to that style home, we just bought it, it's our
20:05
Speaker 1: first home. Whatever, we haven't a clue. We know there's
20:08
Speaker 1: color schemes associated with it, we don't know what they are,
20:11
Speaker 1: so we end up either feeling profoundly limited by our
20:14
Speaker 1: options or profoundly confused and a little bit nervous. You know,
20:18
Speaker 1: we don't want to slap a color scheme on a
20:19
Speaker 1: house that's completely wrong for that architectural style. At least
20:24
Speaker 1: that's often, you know, the thinking out there. However, unless
20:28
Speaker 1: we're talking about a historic home in a historic district,
20:31
Speaker 1: you really don't need to feel completely locked in the
20:36
Speaker 1: architectural style that you've got. It can guide, you know,
20:40
Speaker 1: your color choices, and it should probably help you. You know,
20:42
Speaker 1: it should guide your choices, but you don't need to
20:45
Speaker 1: feel like you're on a trail. But you don't need
20:47
Speaker 1: to feel like you're on a trail that you can't
20:49
Speaker 1: diverge from. You know, there's wiggle room. That's the first
20:52
Speaker 1: thing I want to stress in this segment is, unless
20:55
Speaker 1: you're in a historic district, you've got a fair amount
20:58
Speaker 1: of wiggle room. Now, if you're struggle, I mean to
21:00
Speaker 1: read between the lines here, I'm encouraging you to lighten
21:04
Speaker 1: up a little bit. You know, you've got more freedom
21:06
Speaker 1: than you may have thought. Still with that said, let's
21:08
Speaker 1: look at some of the classic color schemes for some
21:11
Speaker 1: classic styles of homes. And I want to start with
21:13
Speaker 1: the colonial. Now colonial architecture. It includes Cape Cod, Georgian,
21:18
Speaker 1: Dutch colonial homes. Colonial architecture traditionally makes use of a
21:23
Speaker 1: color scheme of kind of you know, muted classic neutrals.
21:26
Speaker 1: So think crisp whites, soft creams, beige's, or grays, all
21:31
Speaker 1: of those colors for the main body of the home.
21:33
Speaker 1: You know, they're usually paired with primary colors like dark green, black,
21:38
Speaker 1: barn red, or maybe even yellow for your doors, shutters,
21:41
Speaker 1: and trim. So that's colonial architecture. If you've got a
21:45
Speaker 1: Victorian home, let me tell you you've got options here,
21:48
Speaker 1: options galore. It's like being at the buffet somewhere somewhere good,
21:53
Speaker 1: you know, not just the buffet somewhere, but somewhere good.
21:55
Speaker 1: A lot of options. In fact, there really aren't a
21:58
Speaker 1: lot of rules when it comes to these types of homes.
22:01
Speaker 1: You know, we sometimes think there are, we assume there are,
22:04
Speaker 1: but when you really get down to it, that's not
22:06
Speaker 1: the case. You can really stretch and still have everything
22:09
Speaker 1: turn out well. With Victorian architecture, for example, you can
22:13
Speaker 1: do everything from rich jewel tones like emeralds or sapphires
22:16
Speaker 1: to soft pastels. A lot of freedom here, So if
22:20
Speaker 1: you find yourself choosing colors for a Victorian home, feel
22:22
Speaker 1: free to stretch a little bit, push the boundaries, and
22:25
Speaker 1: have a little bit of fun. Now. Another common architectural
22:28
Speaker 1: style is a craftsman home, and the term craftsmen represents
22:32
Speaker 1: a really broad architectural category. And while most people you
22:35
Speaker 1: know kind of picture a very specific look when they
22:38
Speaker 1: hear craftsmen, it actually includes quite a range of subtypes
22:42
Speaker 1: and styles that all stem from that same design philosophy.
22:46
Speaker 1: You know, these homes are all about warmth, craftsmanship, and character.
22:49
Speaker 1: The craftsman movement it includes you know, a variety of
22:52
Speaker 1: designs from bungalows to boxy four squares to mission influenced homes.
22:57
Speaker 1: All are rooted in kind of natural materials, strong lines,
23:01
Speaker 1: and like I said that craftsmen feel that hand crafted,
23:04
Speaker 1: you know, feel handcrafted details. However, you want to say
23:07
Speaker 1: that traditionally, colorwise, these lean towards earthy, muted colors. So
23:11
Speaker 1: think browns, sages, and grays. The colors feel grounded, they
23:16
Speaker 1: feel historically accurate for those types of homes. But with these,
23:21
Speaker 1: don't be too afraid to modernize them a little bit
23:24
Speaker 1: by bringing in some mustard or olive accents. That would
23:28
Speaker 1: work really well with these. All right, moving on, let's
23:30
Speaker 1: look at ranch homes. Now, colonial and craftsmen homes, they
23:34
Speaker 1: trace their roots back to the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries.
23:38
Speaker 1: The ranch house is pure mid century Americana. You know,
23:41
Speaker 1: they've got single story layouts, open floor plans and kind
23:45
Speaker 1: of this feeling of horizontal sprawl. Now, when it comes
23:48
Speaker 1: to colors in ranches, you know, it's kind of it
23:53
Speaker 1: varies a lot. It's hard to pin down. It's not uncommon, though,
23:57
Speaker 1: to see a lot of earthy tones, you know, so
23:59
Speaker 1: think tope brown tan for the body, colors like that,
24:03
Speaker 1: with whiter brown for the trim. Really often we see
24:07
Speaker 1: burgundy deep green for the doors and shutters, you know,
24:10
Speaker 1: color schemes like that, and that's probably the most common.
24:13
Speaker 1: But these homes, really, you know, they could be quite
24:16
Speaker 1: interesting in the fifties and sixties. We've got some old
24:20
Speaker 1: repcoal light exterior color charts from that era. And the
24:24
Speaker 1: colors of that era were pretty crazy. So this isn't
24:27
Speaker 1: specific to ranches, but ranches in you know, the fifties
24:30
Speaker 1: and sixties they really excelled when it came to a
24:34
Speaker 1: little bit of extravagance. So you could see soft pastels
24:37
Speaker 1: on the bases, so pale aquas and buttery yellows and
24:41
Speaker 1: all of that on you know, the base of the house,
24:43
Speaker 1: and then bright colors for the doors and the shutters,
24:46
Speaker 1: you know, white or black for the trim, and that
24:49
Speaker 1: was pretty common in the fifties and sixties or so.
24:52
Speaker 1: All right, those are some you know, main architectural styles
24:56
Speaker 1: and their traditional color palettes. But remember, unless you're in
24:58
Speaker 1: a historic district, you're really not bound to use those
25:02
Speaker 1: color schemes. You know, you've got a lot of freedom,
25:05
Speaker 1: and you can really tap into the colors that you
25:07
Speaker 1: most love, regardless of the style. By all means, let
25:11
Speaker 1: those traditional colors and the architectural style of your home
25:15
Speaker 1: at least guide you or at least whisper to you
25:18
Speaker 1: a little bit. They can make suggestions just remember, you
25:21
Speaker 1: don't have to listen to those suggestions or take them
25:24
Speaker 1: up on it unless you're in the historic district. Then
25:26
Speaker 1: you better check the rules, because there's going to be
25:29
Speaker 1: rules all right Now, Before we move on from all
25:31
Speaker 1: of this and get to the last segment, I want
25:34
Speaker 1: to focus on a building material on many different homes,
25:39
Speaker 1: no matter their style, and I probably should have put
25:41
Speaker 1: this in last segments conversation. In hindsight, I see that
25:47
Speaker 1: it would have fit better there, but I didn't do that,
25:50
Speaker 1: and I'm not going back in time, not this time,
25:52
Speaker 1: not going to do it. So I'm going to ump
25:54
Speaker 1: it in right here. I'm going to talk about a
25:55
Speaker 1: building material that's on all kinds of different architectural style
26:00
Speaker 1: and it's sometimes hard to work with. What I'm talking
26:03
Speaker 1: about is brick, and unless you're actually painting the brick,
26:06
Speaker 1: you're going to have to treat that brick kind of
26:09
Speaker 1: as the star of the show here. I guess it
26:10
Speaker 1: depends on how much of it is on the home,
26:12
Speaker 1: But if the home is largely brick, of course it's
26:15
Speaker 1: going to have to be the star of the show.
26:17
Speaker 1: It's the main color in your color scheme, and that's obvious,
26:21
Speaker 1: but it's more complicated than that because the brick isn't
26:24
Speaker 1: really a single color at all. It's a texture, it's
26:28
Speaker 1: a pattern, and when it comes to color, it's a
26:30
Speaker 1: bunch of different colors that, when viewed as a whole,
26:34
Speaker 1: you know, make up an average color that our eye sees.
26:37
Speaker 1: So you've got to keep all of that in mind
26:38
Speaker 1: when you're working with brick. But a lot of times
26:41
Speaker 1: people don't do this, and instead they go the easiest
26:43
Speaker 1: route with brick and they make the accent colors white.
26:46
Speaker 1: We just often don't know what else to do. But
26:48
Speaker 1: painted surfaces on a brick home should all take a
26:51
Speaker 1: back seat. You know. That's a big rule of thumb
26:53
Speaker 1: with brick. Anything that you paint, shutters, doors, all of
26:56
Speaker 1: that that should take the back seat. Let the brick
27:00
Speaker 1: be the main star of the show. Let it do
27:02
Speaker 1: its thing. And when you put white trim on a
27:06
Speaker 1: brick home, that white trim, those white accents do anything
27:09
Speaker 1: but take a back seat. They're just way too stark
27:12
Speaker 1: on a surface like that. They break up the house's
27:14
Speaker 1: natural flow and they can make the house actually look broken.
27:18
Speaker 1: You know. There's just some tension that's created from all
27:20
Speaker 1: the light being reflected back from those surfaces, while the
27:23
Speaker 1: texture on the main body of the home, the brick
27:26
Speaker 1: is absorbing so much light. There's just this tension that's
27:29
Speaker 1: created to reduce or eliminate that. You want to choose
27:33
Speaker 1: colors so that your trim, your window casings, your doors,
27:36
Speaker 1: your foundations, all of those materials, all of those areas,
27:39
Speaker 1: I should say, recede. You know, colors like dark topes, browns, blacks,
27:44
Speaker 1: or colors like dark blue, teal, or green, even all
27:47
Speaker 1: of them will complement the orange red tones that we
27:50
Speaker 1: see in brick without being loud, without being in your face.
27:54
Speaker 1: And in the end, the home is going to look
27:56
Speaker 1: more subtle, more cohesive, and it's just because it's been
28:00
Speaker 1: put together a little more intentionally at that point. Now,
28:02
Speaker 1: if you're absolutely committed to having lighter tones for the
28:05
Speaker 1: trim match the mortar color, this is still going to
28:09
Speaker 1: give off a visual that's going to give a nod
28:11
Speaker 1: towards having white trim, but it's not going to be
28:14
Speaker 1: as stark as white trim. It's not gonna break everything.
28:16
Speaker 1: It's going to work alongside the pattern, you know, and
28:19
Speaker 1: the color variations in the brick, because that mortar actually
28:22
Speaker 1: does make up that average that we see, that average
28:26
Speaker 1: color that our eye sees. The mortar's right in there,
28:28
Speaker 1: so it's going to kind of work with that, and
28:30
Speaker 1: it's not going to separate from it. All right. So
28:33
Speaker 1: if you want to have light color on your trim
28:35
Speaker 1: and you've got a brick home, match the mortar color.
28:38
Speaker 1: All right. That's a ton of info, big info dump
28:42
Speaker 1: that I just threw in your face. Hopefully, hopefully it
28:46
Speaker 1: helps you out. And remember if you just can't remember
28:49
Speaker 1: everything I said and you need to revisit it, you
28:52
Speaker 1: can always find it online at repco light dot com.
28:55
Speaker 1: Just click the on the radio tab on the homepage
28:57
Speaker 1: and you can find the latest episode that way, so
29:01
Speaker 1: you can catch this again. All right, let's take a
29:02
Speaker 1: break right now, and when we come back, we'll wrap
29:04
Speaker 1: all this up with some final thoughts. Stay right there,
29:07
Speaker 1: or actually go wherever, do whatever you want. Just come
29:10
Speaker 1: back in a few minutes. We'll talk to you in
29:13
Speaker 1: a minute, and we're back. You're listening to the Repolite
29:21
Speaker 1: Home Improvement Show and our spotlight on how to feel
29:24
Speaker 1: comfortable and confident when picking exterior colors for your home.
29:28
Speaker 1: And we've covered a lot of ground at this point,
29:31
Speaker 1: But there are a few things left that I want
29:33
Speaker 1: to hit before I wrap it all up for the week.
29:35
Speaker 1: And the first one is this, how many colors should
29:38
Speaker 1: you use on an exterior color scheme? You know, is
29:41
Speaker 1: there a rule when it comes to picking these colors?
29:43
Speaker 1: Because we're talking about picking them, I better give you
29:46
Speaker 1: some kind of idea as to how many you should
29:48
Speaker 1: be choosing. Is it two colors that you need? Is
29:50
Speaker 1: it three? Maybe it's twelve. I don't know, Maybe it's
29:54
Speaker 1: seventeen and a half. Maybe it's a different number. What
29:57
Speaker 1: is the right number when it comes to exterior color schemes?
30:00
Speaker 1: How many colors? Well, of course, the reality is it depends.
30:04
Speaker 1: You know, it's going to depend on a combination of
30:07
Speaker 1: the homes details. You know what you've got to work with,
30:09
Speaker 1: and the vibe you're going for. You know what you
30:12
Speaker 1: want to achieve with the home. For example, if you
30:15
Speaker 1: want to emphasize a vibe of simplicity, you know that's
30:18
Speaker 1: what you're after. Just calm, simplicity, and you've got a ranch,
30:22
Speaker 1: Just stick with two colors. You know, you've got a
30:24
Speaker 1: body color and a single accent color. That's plenty. If
30:27
Speaker 1: you want to infuse a little energy into the design
30:30
Speaker 1: or highlight certain aspects of the home. Add in a
30:33
Speaker 1: third color you know that still works with that ranch,
30:35
Speaker 1: and you can achieve you know, that slightly more energetic
30:39
Speaker 1: exterior that you're looking for. Now, let's say you're working
30:42
Speaker 1: with a Victorian home and you've got just loads of
30:45
Speaker 1: gingerbread trim. You know, everywhere you look there's something new happening.
30:49
Speaker 1: If you've got that and you want to simplify everything
30:52
Speaker 1: and streamline it all, if that's the vibe you're after,
30:55
Speaker 1: all you need to do is limit your color choices.
30:57
Speaker 1: Fewer accent colors will cause excess architectural elements to blend
31:01
Speaker 1: into other ones, and it's going to soften that overall.
31:03
Speaker 1: Look now, if you want to draw attention to all
31:05
Speaker 1: of those details, of course, then you just lean into color.
31:08
Speaker 1: Go for three, four, maybe more, maybe five six colors.
31:11
Speaker 1: It all depends on what you're working with. The big
31:14
Speaker 1: thing here is this, if you do stretch, you know,
31:17
Speaker 1: whether it's the ranch, whether it's the you know, Victorian home,
31:20
Speaker 1: or anything in between. If you do stretch and bring
31:22
Speaker 1: in more colors, you need to be consistent. You know,
31:25
Speaker 1: you're essentially creating a pattern with color. Here, if there's
31:28
Speaker 1: an architectural feature that you're painting a given color, be
31:32
Speaker 1: sure that there's enough of that feature to make that
31:35
Speaker 1: choice look right and look intentional. Too many colors without
31:39
Speaker 1: enough repetition can look chaotic and it can look like
31:42
Speaker 1: a mistake. So make sure there's enough of that feature,
31:45
Speaker 1: you know, to make that color that you're bringing in
31:47
Speaker 1: look right. Also, if you're going to do that, be
31:49
Speaker 1: sure that you make all of those features that same color.
31:53
Speaker 1: You know. Don't mess up your pattern basically is what
31:56
Speaker 1: I'm saying, And that sounds kind of silly, but it
31:59
Speaker 1: happens all the time, and if you look at homes
32:01
Speaker 1: around your neighborhood, you're going to find some that do that.
32:04
Speaker 1: I saw one the other day that all the ca
32:06
Speaker 1: scenes of the windows were painted a given accent color
32:10
Speaker 1: except a bay window, where they painted all of them
32:13
Speaker 1: the actual base color of the home. It didn't look terrible,
32:17
Speaker 1: but it did break the pattern, and it would have
32:19
Speaker 1: been better had they stuck with the pattern all the
32:22
Speaker 1: way around. So be aware of that. Keep that in
32:24
Speaker 1: mind as you start bringing more colors in. Make sure
32:27
Speaker 1: you're consistent. One last thing, as you're working with or
32:30
Speaker 1: thinking about how many colors you want to bring in.
32:32
Speaker 1: Here's a really practical thing to think about. The more
32:35
Speaker 1: accent colors you bring in, the more money it's going
32:38
Speaker 1: to cost to get the home painted, and in some cases,
32:41
Speaker 1: the harder it's going to be to find a painter
32:43
Speaker 1: willing to tackle all of that minutia. You know, all
32:46
Speaker 1: of that work. So keep that in mind, all right,
32:48
Speaker 1: Moving on another thing to think about shutters and doors.
32:51
Speaker 1: You know, we've talked about accent colors, and we've mentioned
32:55
Speaker 1: doors and shutters plenty of times, but let's talk about
32:57
Speaker 1: them specifically here for a little bit. If a home
33:00
Speaker 1: has shutters, there's a popular understanding that those shutters should
33:04
Speaker 1: be painted the same color as the door. Well, that's
33:07
Speaker 1: not a rule. You know, you can follow it, you know,
33:10
Speaker 1: that's fine, But a better guide is to again assess
33:13
Speaker 1: your goals the vibe you're after. Do you want to
33:15
Speaker 1: simplify and streamline that exterior look of your home. If
33:18
Speaker 1: that's the case, you know, paint the shutters the same
33:21
Speaker 1: color as the door, or if you want to bring
33:23
Speaker 1: in kind of a third color, make them a little
33:26
Speaker 1: bit darker, a shade darker than the door. You know,
33:28
Speaker 1: keep everything in the same family, maybe just a little
33:30
Speaker 1: bit darker. That's going to help streamline the look. It's
33:33
Speaker 1: going to simplify the exterior a little bit. If you're
33:36
Speaker 1: hoping to infuse a little interest or some whimsy or
33:39
Speaker 1: energy or whatever you want to call it, you know,
33:41
Speaker 1: infuse that into the exterior. Then of course, feel free
33:44
Speaker 1: to vary the colors of the shutters and doors, and
33:46
Speaker 1: sometimes even vary them dramatically. All right, so that's shutters
33:50
Speaker 1: and doors. Now final thoughts. You know, I'm sorry, this
33:53
Speaker 1: whole last segment is kind of just a it's a hodgepodge.
33:57
Speaker 1: It's like a buffet. Pick and choose what you like.
34:00
Speaker 1: I've got some final thoughts and then we'll wrap it
34:02
Speaker 1: all up. First thing is this, don't rush when it
34:05
Speaker 1: comes to choosing your color schemes. Take your time with
34:08
Speaker 1: the samples, take your time finding inspiration. If you're feeling pressured,
34:12
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes by a painter, by a designer, by yourself.
34:16
Speaker 1: A lot of the times it's us, you know, our
34:18
Speaker 1: own selves, who are our own worst enemies. You're pushing
34:21
Speaker 1: yourself to get the answer, to come up with a solution.
34:25
Speaker 1: Just try to give yourself a break if it's somebody
34:27
Speaker 1: else pushing you. You know. I understand there are timelines,
34:31
Speaker 1: there are deadlines, and they're going to need certain colors
34:33
Speaker 1: by certain times, but if you're feeling rushed, just try
34:37
Speaker 1: to find a way to slow it down a little bit.
34:39
Speaker 1: Nobody makes good decisions when you're feeling rushed, So keep
34:43
Speaker 1: that in mind and be sure. Along these same lines,
34:46
Speaker 1: as you're looking at all these colors and thinking about
34:48
Speaker 1: which way you want to go, remember that you should
34:51
Speaker 1: be looking at your colors in different lighting conditions throughout
34:53
Speaker 1: different times of the day before you make that final choice.
34:57
Speaker 1: You know, don't land on a color, look at it
34:59
Speaker 1: in the afternoon on the side of the house and
35:01
Speaker 1: call it good. Make sure you give yourself that extra
35:04
Speaker 1: time to see it in the morning, to see it
35:06
Speaker 1: in the evening, and just make sure that when the
35:08
Speaker 1: lighting changes that color is still exactly what you want.
35:11
Speaker 1: All right, along these same lines, still talking about colors here,
35:15
Speaker 1: be sure that you check out Benjamin Moore's color Portfolio app.
35:18
Speaker 1: I know everybody and their brother has an app, and
35:21
Speaker 1: it gets to be a little much after a while,
35:23
Speaker 1: but the Benjamin Ward Color Portfolio app is really worth
35:26
Speaker 1: downloading if you've got paint projects coming up. It's going
35:30
Speaker 1: to give you access to all of their fan decks,
35:32
Speaker 1: so you can view colors easily right on your phone.
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Speaker 1: But you can also test out colors on various exteriors
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Speaker 1: on the app itself. They've got a few, you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe four preloaded house exteriors that you can try the
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Speaker 1: colors out on. You can also take pictures of your
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Speaker 1: own home and upload that. But even if you use
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Speaker 1: their stock photos, you definitely can get a good idea
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Speaker 1: of how colors look together, which is cool. But it's
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Speaker 1: also going to give you a good idea of how
35:57
Speaker 1: a given color looks much lighter outside. You know, we
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Speaker 1: talked about that earlier, that colors outside can look two
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Speaker 1: to three shades lighter. You're going to see a lot
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Speaker 1: of that in this app. So it's definitely a great
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Speaker 1: tool to have if you're getting ready to start an
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Speaker 1: exter your your painting project, or really honestly any painting project.
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Speaker 1: Download it and check it out. It's free. It's the
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Speaker 1: Benjamin war Color Portfolio app. You can find it where
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Speaker 1: you find your apps. All right, next thing, be careful
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Speaker 1: about getting opinions you know we all do it, and
36:24
Speaker 1: we often all need to go get outside thoughts. But
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Speaker 1: if you do that, if you go that route when
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Speaker 1: it comes to your exterior colors, I'd recommend that you
36:32
Speaker 1: get one or maybe at most to other people whose
36:36
Speaker 1: design opinions you really admire. Don't get many more people
36:40
Speaker 1: than that, because too many opinions usually makes making that
36:43
Speaker 1: decision a little bit harder. Moving on, remember we're here
36:47
Speaker 1: to help at Repcolite as well. You know, we've got
36:49
Speaker 1: people at every single Repcolite location who are trained and
36:52
Speaker 1: ready to walk you through this process. So bring your photos,
36:55
Speaker 1: bring your samples, bring anything that you think will help
36:58
Speaker 1: and will go over your specific situation with you and
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Speaker 1: help you make the best color choices possible. Finally, last thing,
37:04
Speaker 1: I've got, get the right paint. You know, whether you
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Speaker 1: hire a contractor or whether you do the project yourself,
37:10
Speaker 1: you as the homeowner, you've got the power to choose
37:12
Speaker 1: the paint that you want on your home. Benjamin Moore.
37:15
Speaker 1: Exterior paint products are going to excel when it comes
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Speaker 1: to performance and durability. You know or Exterior Regal select
37:21
Speaker 1: Exterior their top of the line products. You're not going
37:24
Speaker 1: to find better out there. Benjamin Moore's Element Guard. It's
37:26
Speaker 1: also a great product, and it's claim to fame is
37:29
Speaker 1: really interesting. If we get rain even just an hour
37:33
Speaker 1: after the product was applied, it's still going to be fine.
37:36
Speaker 1: That's unheard of in the industry. It's a really great
37:38
Speaker 1: safety net if you're painting in the early spring or
37:41
Speaker 1: the late fall when weather is a little more unpredictable. Now,
37:44
Speaker 1: another thing to consider with Benjamin Moore products is that
37:47
Speaker 1: it's not just the quality of the paint that you're getting.
37:49
Speaker 1: You're also getting products that are tinted. With Benjamin Moore's
37:52
Speaker 1: gen X Colorance, this is kind of geeky stuff. It's
37:55
Speaker 1: a little bit nerdy, it's a little bit boring, and
37:58
Speaker 1: I don't often talk about them on the show, but
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Speaker 1: gen X Colorance they're designed to enhance the durability and
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Speaker 1: color retention of exterior paints, especially in harsh weather conditions.
38:06
Speaker 1: These colorants are going to help exterior paints resist fading, cracking,
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Speaker 1: and peeling, and it ensures that the chosen color stays
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Speaker 1: true for a much longer time. So Benjamin Moore paint products,
38:16
Speaker 1: they're tried and true. They're going to give you long
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Speaker 1: lasting color and protection and durability for your home. Ask
38:21
Speaker 1: for them. But don't forget about Repcolite products either. We
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Speaker 1: make them in Holland. Most of you already know that,
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Speaker 1: and we've been doing it for over seventy six years now.
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Speaker 1: So we've got it down and we've got a great
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Speaker 1: exterior option called Endura, and as a bonus, we tint
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Speaker 1: it with another high performance colorant system that's going to
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Speaker 1: give performance similar to Benjamin Moore's gen X Colorance. So
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Speaker 1: whatever you pick, Benjamin Moore or Repcolite, just make sure
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Speaker 1: you get the best paint you can all right. That's
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Speaker 1: going to do it. That's all the time we've got.
38:48
Speaker 1: We're going to wrap it up. If you want to
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Speaker 1: catch it again, you can find it online at repcolit
38:52
Speaker 1: dot com. Whatever you do today makes your paints a
38:54
Speaker 1: part of it. And remember the next project you tackle
38:56
Speaker 1: is way easier than you think. Stop out at your
38:59
Speaker 1: nearest Repcolite and let us help. Have a great weekend everybody,
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Speaker 1: and I'll see you next week. I'm Dan Hansen. Thanks
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Speaker 1: for listening.