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   Piffin | May 21, 2009 02:02pm | #1

   I'd keep 4" lapp, light beige on the siding and darker beige or light brown trim

    

    

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   Danno | May 21, 2009 02:37pm | #2

   I see that you live in Wisconsin, so stucco is probably not what you want (though it would look very good on that house).  But with the roof the color it is, and it looks pretty new, I'd try to go with a color scheme compatable with that, and to my way of thinking, that would be mauve or a grayed down lavender with the same olive trim you have. (That may be a bit too extreme for you though! (Bear in mind that I am and artist, so I like bold color combinations!))

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   cwalkoe | May 21, 2009 02:59pm | #3

   There are a number of "painted ladies" in my neighborhood and I am jelous that I can't go up to 5 colors!  An artist is exactly what I need because I am far from that.  Would love to find some classic examples of paint combos for a bungalow like mine.  Stucco would be awesome, there is a Frank L. Wright inspired house close by that is stucco, very cool.

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   Saltworks | May 21, 2009 03:13pm | #4

   Amazon has a huge selection of bungalow books.  Here's one on bungalow colors that sounds like a good start:

   http://www.amazon.com/Bungalow-Colors-Exteriors-Robert-Schweitzer/dp/1586851306/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242907678&sr=1-1

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   runnerguy | May 21, 2009 03:32pm | #5

   There's also this book:

   http://www.amazon.com/500-Bungalows-Douglas-Keister/dp/1561588423/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242908990&sr=1-1

   500 photographs of the front of bungalows.

   Runnerguy

   
   

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   Edited 5/21/2009 8:32 am ET by runnerguy

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   cwalkoe | May 21, 2009 03:56pm | #6

   Awesome!  Thanks for the amazon links

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   Hackinatit | May 21, 2009 05:23pm | #7

   You apply the colors your WIFE chooses...

   anything else will result in applying 4 coats of paint (two of yours followed with two of hers)

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   cwalkoe | May 21, 2009 05:35pm | #8

   Funny!!  I had a wife once and a really cool old colonial style house that yes, she would have picked the colors on but not this one!  She likes "new" houses and all the "old" stuff that I like didn't suit her i.e. family furniture passed down, old radios etc.  Trust me, I will have a hard enough time with the girlfriend and kids wanting to give their two cents but this one is my baby and I do all the work so I get to be the artist on this one...

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   WayneL5 | May 21, 2009 05:45pm | #9

   Fiber cement looks really good on bungalows. 

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   IMERC | May 21, 2009 05:54pm | #10

   Hsrdi Plank....

   you can almost match what ya have now...

    

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   JAlden | May 21, 2009 06:17pm | #11

   That's a great looking bungalow. I could tell you are in the midwest before checking your profile.

   Sherwin Williams stores have color palates for different house styles. Victorians, Arts and Crafts. I don't know if they have one for bungalows. I looked on their web site but couldn't find any of them.

   They do have an on line tool to try different colors.

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   WayneL5 | May 21, 2009 07:11pm | #12

   During the Bungalow era the popular colors were earth tones.  Greens, straws, rusts, etc.  And all earth tones seem to go together, too.  You would not see white, bright blues, garishness of any kind.

   I'm rearranging my library the next few weeks.  If I run across any good books I'll post another reply.

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    user-51823 | May 21, 2009 07:39pm | #13

    Ack! zapped my longish reply as i tried to post.

    In short: avoid reds and mauves as they are too similar to the roof; go with greens or warm browns, ochres or greens. Cold colors don't look as good on this style. The SW Arts and Crafts pamphlet guide mentioned earlier will definitely work for Bungalow style; it's intended for that broad style as opposed to victorian, colonial, 1950's etc.

    Decide first of all whether you want the trim to be lighter or darker than the face of the house and whether you want accent color(s) and where. in my neighborhood (also craftsman bungalow style), the prettiest front doors are stripped down and clear finished.
    Glad you are taking away the white!

11. 
    WayneL5 | May 23, 2009 06:28pm | #14

    One book that may help is Victorian Exterior Decoration by Roger W. Moss and Gail Caskey Winkler.  Even though Craftsman homes are a bit later, many of the colors show in the book were used thereon, particularly the earth tones, not so much the grays.