Hi guys! I normally hang out Over the Fence, but I need your extensive knowledge, if you have a minute.
My hard-working and talented husband is residing our garage. He’s putting up Maibec white cedar shingles prefinished with the Cabot bleaching oil. So here’s the question. What color shall I paint the garage doors? They need to match reasonably well. Right now they are painted a medium gray, which has more blue tones in it than the shingles. I think I can’t just color match, because I understand the shingle color won’t be set for months.
Thank you!
zone 6 gardening in the woods with 30,000 deer
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I'd go with a contrasting or complimentary color. Sherwin Williams "Repose Gray" is close but not perfect. Bleaching oil ages very differently depending on location, so you would have to wait to know for sure.
One nice thing about the bleaching oil is that pretty much every color goes with it. I like warm tans and cool blue-greens with it myself.
Thanks Mike for your reply. The semi-attached house is gray with white trim, with forest-green doors. I don't really want to introduce more colors, but I don't want to paint the doors either white or green because I don't want to make my garage doors the main design statement. I would like them to just disappear in a kind of utilitarian fog. I could leave them the clashing gray for now and maybe paint them in the spring when the shingles have had a little time to weather. Hmmm.
zone 6 gardening in the woods with 30,000 deer
We usually paint garage doors the same color as the trim, but I know that's not the convention everywhere.