Tropical house exteriors lend vivid personality to a neighborhood.
When your heart is set on a home that looks like a Caribbean sunset, play with the color palette of tropical hues. Fruits, flowers, brightly plumed birds, sea, sky and tricks of light can all inspire an exterior color scheme to evoke the islands. Consider the neighbors and the house style before you go Technicolor. A stucco bungalow, a Spanish colonial or even a minimalist modern home looks fine in vivid shades. Unleash your colorful personality, but don't be the only hot pink house on an otherwise subdued brick block.
Caribbean Candy
Go Mo' Bay with a cheerful color palette of mango, lime or deep turquoise. Montego Bay, Jamaica features neighborhoods of cottages that look like a scattering of hard candies. Try a tangerine stucco finish with indigo or pale blue trim. Accent hibiscus-yellow walls with leaf-green trim. Give a pink house an orange door. The colors will really pop on a bungalow or cottage but could be over-the-top on a ranch home in a sea of white facades.
Color Wheel Picks
Paint the siding of your house lavender and trim it with vivid sea blue. Add pumpkin doors and shutters and watch the curb appeal zoom upward. Choosing colors near each other on the color wheel and accenting them with a complement provides both contrast and harmony for your home's exterior. The careful selection makes the facade arresting but not jarring.
Tin-Top Tropical
Under a tin roof, the sky's the limit for tropical colors. Try teal for a larger beachside house and give it a crisp edge with blinding white trim. Use flamingo pink for shingles or siding and punctuate the flowery color with a barn-red or purple door. Use creamy yellow for something more refined and subtle, but dress it up with lime-green or coral trim. A driveway of crushed shells adds an authentic touch to the view from the street.
Beachy Breeze
Your tropical house can evoke the serenity of a private beach without sending you running for the sunglasses. Painting the walls the color of wet sand is a soothing choice for a minimalist modern house. Stay with a pale color for trim -- the slightly grayed white of seagulls or bleached shells, or the creamy lavender of an island sky at dawn. Landscaping with chalky, silvery plants extends the salt-spray beach theme. Be sure to add some umbrella-leaved green banana plants and keep them in containers if you don't want a banana plantation to take over your yard.
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