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09-07-10, 03:15 PM

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need help with color of house

Wanting to paint my house a new color but not sure what to choose. I have a red tiled roof and brick is a multi cream color... Current trim color is white... Storm windows are white... thought of leaving trum white and painting an accent color around windows leaving the white storm windows... any help is awesome. trying to attach a pic but cant figure out how to do that.

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09-07-10, 03:26 PM

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Welcome to the forums!

I've been retired for awhile so I'm not real familiar with the programs but most paint stores should have a computer program that takes a pic of your house and then 'colors' it with their different paint color selections.

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