26 Outdated Exterior Paint Colors

Who gives a flying fuck what these design designers want to see in terms of house color?

Looking at their list, what colors are left? They seem to have run the gamut of all hues.

Opinion of one. She writes like a juvenile. Also "Designers around the world are cringing at these outdated shades" - yet makes no reference to her alleged research. She is a dimwitted young "author" who will need to choose a real job soon.

Battleship gray, German Staff car taupe, and black are still apparently OK.

Paint colors ?

Here where I live in RI,, mostly all homes built after 1960 are covered in vinyl siding. Homes built in the 1930s - 1950s are a mix of being covered up in siding, or painted white or gray (usually with black or blue trim). Homes from the late 1700s - 1920s are mostly protected by the local / state Preservation society and Historical society and have to follow their guidelines - colonial paint colors from the era they were built. That gives us plenty of 'colonial red' , 'colonial cream', and 'colonial blue' and nothing much more without special permission (rarely granted). Some of the colonial houses in coastal towns have a little more variety.

You do you.

I love in a 55+ community in Florida and those colors are all we use. It looks so happy and cheerful, just like an exploded Easter basket everywhere!

Really dumb article. Many of those colors work depending on the style of house and the location.

And personal taste; a lot of those colors are fine house colors, but I have an aversion to painting houses blue. A blue house in Key West or a Victorian in San Francisco would look fine, but I still don't like blue houses.

She created a list of colors SHE doesn't like, not colors that for whatever reason shouldn't be used.

This feels like an AI site used for bots that click on paid ads and retargeting for revenue.

None of the 'authors' have any pics and the bios sound strange and unnatural - as are the names.

Then their examples - "Ivory" and it's a STONE house! No ivory paint at all.

I hate that these sites pop-up - they're all used for ad fraud.

I was about to post what R8 just did. That site is total AI-generated listicle bilge. There are thousands of similar AI sites doing this.

The illustration for rust is a brick house. GARBAGE TEXT

R9 - problem is - Google and other ad platforms could easily stop these sites, but they don't want to. If they did, then all the extra money they get from click fraud goes away from their bottom line.

The problem also is that PEOPLE ARE FUCKING IDIOTS and are addicted to AI shovelware SLOP. The millions of animal videos which are ALL LIES. People live for this crap, it's just "vibes" and feelings. OP may have zero internet literacy, as well.

Good grief: The article's "Terracotta Orange" isn't paint--it's the color of the bricks. You can see the (uncolored) cement between the bricks. Same story with the article's "Rust." Similarly, the article's "Ivory" (a) isn't the color ivory but is rather the color bone; and (b) shows stonework with that color, not something painted that color. Meantime, the article's "Pumpkin Orange" doesn't show a house painted that color, it shows . . . pumpkins of that color.

R12 Thanks.

sad grey

I'll save you the click: it's pastels. They list every single variation of pastels. Lilac and lavender get individual listings. Mint green and chartreuse too.

It's the worst fucking clickbait. F&F OP for posting this.

[quote] The problem also is that PEOPLE ARE FUCKING IDIOTS and are addicted to AI shovelware SLOP. The millions of animal videos which are ALL LIES. People live for this crap, it's just "vibes" and feelings.

I rarely go on Facebook, but when I do, my feed is a steady stream of this shit -- listicle garbage and fake news from weird-sounding Facebook pages I've never liked, with links to supposed news sites that are actually content farms, right-wing propaganda, or AI bullshit. When I read the comments people leave on these Facebook posts, it's clear that most people are idiots who believe every word. In fact, they probably trust this kind of bullshit more than they trust the legitimate news media (whose posts almost never show up in their social media feeds). We're doomed.

OP, why did you post this AI generated click-bait listicle???

Everyone knows that the main color problem plaguing contemporary home design is elephant grey. Or house flipper grey/air b&b grey as it’s now frequently referred as.

r19 No

What a dumb article. The picture depicting chartreuse looks closer to a golden chartreuse than the "highlighter-like" chartreuse the writer advises we avoid. She says to go with olive or moss green instead.

Then we scroll down and see Olive Drab listed, which she faults for making homes look like a military base. And olive and moss green don't? Those colors are just a few subtle gradients apart.

R18 Cause I was bored

The same photo of the same house is used to illustrate mint green and neon green.

I'd use all of those colours bar olive drab and maybe some of the pinks. I really like some of them, like the first three. Beige is outdated as an interior colour but its fine on the exterior although a bit dull. And the powder blue looks more grey to me which I would avoid, its a shit exterior colour

And yes, "article" looks like bad AI slop to me too

[quote]Everyone knows that the main color problem plaguing contemporary home design is elephant grey. Or house flipper grey/air b&b grey as it’s now frequently referred as.

R19 Exactly. Best post in thread!

I live in a desert area and I think the mustardy yellow/almond color so many homes and commercial buildings have in my area is tired as fuck.

I realize it was meant to blend into its surroundings but it just makes homes look so dingy and dirty.

And yes, OP's link is from a shitbag AI slop site.

[quote]Love how they used the same image for both mint green and neon green.

Most of the people here save that sort of emotion for their sick three-legged rescue muttdoodles.

R17 I'm tired of FB flooding my feeds wit this bullshit AI news. This morning there was an article saying 'Barbra Streisand, Dolly Parton, Diana Ross, Cher and Dionne Warwick' were teaming up and doing a 'fond farewell' concert next year starting in January (and of course, my city was on the tour of about 100 stops !). I could not believe the thousands of comments it had generated - skimming through some, they all asked 'When do tickets go on sale ?' It scares me people are this gullible and stupid.

None of those colors were ever commonly used, though the house next door when I was growing up was purple.

Now, every house is some kind of grey. That’s an improvement?

Any light blue, even baby or powder, with white trim, is much more appealing to me than NAVY. I am old enough to remember navy blue as a white trash choice. It only looked smart with brick red shutters.

Do people still use fake shutters?

Navy blue is for my pea coat.

R29 Yes, vinyl shutters are so inexpensive and last forever. When they fade, you just replace them. It's more cost effective than investing in wood shutters and repainting them.

R27 and we know this will happen with political stuff too.....too many too dumb to understand reality, easily duped by propaganda.

I use a color called seastorm foam on my house exterior. Most people would call it a kind of gray. But it turns out that roof color and the colors of nearby houses drastically affect the perception. In one of my properties, the house appears strongly gray green. In the other, it appears strongly blue gray. So strange.

I think paint color is location dependent. Some of these "outdated" colors would still look wonderful in South Florida, or similar coastal area. Same with San Francisco.

I think the baby blue painted house shown is lovely and not outdated at all.

Maybe not mint green or lime green or olive green, but green is making a huge comeback.

I notice in the article that the "outdated" pastel paint colors are all used on Victorian style homes. Of course no one's painting new builds these colors. I say bring the pastels back -- the various shades of "putty" being used now are boring.

How on earth did Sherwin Williams come up with the name parakeet for that color? Is there such a dull-colored parakeet in nature?

Depends on where you are. Some of these are fine for beachside communities. I agree some are garish for a regular suburban neighborhood.

R18 Because I thought it would get 2-3 replies, tops. Plus, I really wanted people to reassure me that pastel/mint green is a good color choice for a house, but no one has done so yet.

R23 As said in the original post

Sorry

So basically every color other than neutrals? I’m assuming the “modern farmhouse” look, ala Joanna Gaines, featuring mainly white exteriors with black trims, has already peaked, no?

I wouldn’t mind having a mint green house. There is one in my neighborhood and it’s really pretty.

I like most of the blue and green houses (not the extreme aqua), especially:

Mint Green (Neon? We think not.)

Chartreuse

Powder Blue

Turquoise (but in less saturated tones)

Lime Green (stunning; would I want to live with it?)

The turquoise shutters w/the beige house: very nice.

Powder blue might be my favorite.

r20 I bet I know what color your floors and cabinets are

I love that baby pink paint! Beyond that, the examples don’t match: those aren’t maroon or neon green to me.