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What Color Should I Paint My House? A Step-by-Step Framework for Getting It Right · Repcolite Home Improvement Show

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