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Use your phone (a how-to for i-phones HERE / looks like it’s an APP to download for Blackberry users)Īnd if all else fails – just look out the windows on what you’ve decided is the most IMPORTANT side of your home and think….

Bust out your Boy Scout toolkit and use a compass.

So, now that you’ve figured out which side is your most IMPORTANT one, you need to figure out which DIRECTION it faces! (I’d rather see a browner mulch, but the house COLOURS look good!) A colour you LOVE on the front, might not be your fave on the back, but SOMETIMES, something has to give. Why does it even MATTER which side is the most important? Well, as you saw in the last example, a single paint colour can look DRASTICALLY different from one side of your home to the other, based on the type and quality of light they’re getting.

Which side affects YOU the most (ie: you don’t have much road and spend a lot of time in the backyard, not the front – in which case, you might focus on the back.

Which side faces the road (curb appeal).

So, does that mean you should focus on the FRONT of your home only? No, but you may need to prioritize things, so here are some tips for figuring out which side of your home matters the most.

Now, let’s look at the NORTH-facing backside of the same home…Īnd the reality is that SOMETIMES, you can’t make all 4 exposures, AS WELL AS your stone, brick, roof AND yourself 100% happy. This home is south-facing, as you can see by the sunlight and shadows… And not only am I funny (wink wink), I’m also a darned smart cookie when it comes to paint colours. And if you’re new to my blog – yes, this is how my brain thinks. There are ALWAYS exceptions, of course, like unique homes with more modest fronts and more impressive backsides (sounds like a description of me), but generally speaking, orientation refers to the front of the home. Not the indecent kind that can get you thrown in jail, but the DIRECTIONAL kind that can make your exterior paint picking process a HECK of a lot harder than it should be!Īnd while I’ve talked EXTENSIVELY about how exposure can affect your interior paint colour picking, I haven’t dived into the deep end of the pool on exteriors…but today, we’re going swimming, and with reference to OTHER type of exposure – we’re skinny dipping.Įxposure (for painting purposes) refers to the orientation of the FRONT of your home and how that relates to the direction of the sun. North, East, South, West – Which EXTERIOR Paint Colour is the Best?