Porches
In anticipation of painting our porch, I went looking for examples of folks making use of color on their columns and detail. Are there any other good ones that I’ve missed?
In anticipation of painting our porch, I went looking for examples of folks making use of color on their columns and detail. Are there any other good ones that I’ve missed?
Lovely post!
That was fun :-) Thanks for the tour!
If you are in an Old & Historic District, you are restricted to the numbers and variety of colors you can use on your house. Many of the nice examples above would not be approved. OHD residents have to choose from an outdated palette of approved colors. The guidelines also prohibit you from picking out interesting architectural detail with color. Here’s what the Guidelines say: “with the notable exception of the Queen Anne style, traditional paint schemes do not use more than two or three colors.
Individual architectural detailing should not be emphasized with an additional color.” If the Guidelines are ever revised in a meaningful way, they will eliminate all reference to paint colors.
Webster, I have to disagree with you – I really don’t think they will eliminate all reference to paint colors, and I know people who have successfully used paint colors not in the CAR palette, with approval by CAR. I DO agree with you that there are certain restrictions in an O&H district, though.
John, lovely photos! Did I miss 21st Street, the 300 block? RBVa has painted their way around the corner from the yellow duplex that faces south onto Broad (NE corner) up around onto the east side of 21st (with the notable exception of that horribly leaning white house on that block!) Also, check their office at 2120 East Marshall. I’m pretty sure I caught that you HAD included two other properties of theirs at 3013 and 3011 East Broad, more examples of using as much color as possible, and always approved by CAR.
For what it adds to the factual foundation of this dialogue: I was specifically told that the porch on this house on Marshall went through CAR, and this house, this house, this house, this house, this house, and this house are all in either the St.John’s Church or Chimborazo Park city O&H districts (PDF).
Two of the houses listed in #5 are 3013 East Broad and (I think) 3011 East Broad. Both are Jordan-Cooley properties and both went through CAR for paint selection, as did 2120 East Marshall (pictured, I think, in the main photos), that last address (Marshall) being RBVa’s offices.
fantastic… got some porch work in my future… very inspirational
is your house going to stay pink? If so you may want to add something that compliments that nicely…such as white, a dark dark green, or even a creamy white- yellow. If the porch looks out of place from the rest of your home then you may want to add some of the same colors to the door(s), gable brackets or window molding (as you see on almost all of the other homes in your neighborhood.
Yep. We’ve got the colors, we’re playing with the patterns on where the color should go.
that’s so cool! that first house, the yellow one– it’s my house:) ah, enjoying my fifteen minutes of fame! (well, at least my house’s fame! haha!)
The one with the flag is my house. Thanks for highlighting it!