Boost Your Home’s Curb Appeal with Color

One of the quickest and easiest ways to boost your home’s curb appeal is with color. Your entry way to your home is the perfect place to add some inviting hues. From your front door to benches, chairs and planters, as well as flowers and dried wreaths, you can create a beautiful focal point with welcoming curb appeal.

Begin with what you have – your home’s exterior color is a great starting point to create an exciting color palette. Grab your ColorReader EZ, scan the color of your exterior siding, tap on one of the 3 color matches offered, then find coordinating colors and complete color scheme palettes to make your color selection process easy and flawless.

Color repetition helps to create a finished look. Paint your front door a beautiful color you’ve chosen from your ColorReader options, then paint a few planters the same hue. Add a colorful wreath to the door and repeat those colors in the flowers and plants you add to your planter.

You can paint your window boxes to match your shutters and trim or make them pop with an additional color or in a different gloss level. Choose plantings that contrast and coordinate with the color of your window box (ColorReader EZ can help here!).

If you’re planning to sell your home, stick to treatments and colors that have a more universal appeal, but if you’re longing for a more personalized look and have an artistic touch, why not try your hand at stenciling or free form painting? Think outside the box for planter ideas and color treatments. Coordinate flower colors to your planters/window boxes/shutters (tap into your ColorReader EZ for ideas) to create a pulled-together look.

Get creative when it comes to planters and think beyond basic terra cotta pots. Simple paint pails, wooden crates, old bicycles, even old tires can take on a colorful new life and purpose with some paint