Choosing authentic Victorian exterior house colors can depend on more than just picking a color from the period that you like. Which part of the Victorian era your house was built in can play a part in choosing the best color. Taking a look at the home’s construction is also important.
Although the Victorian period is often seen as being austere and straight-laced, Victorian architecture is actually very detailed. Many of these architectural details, such as gingerbread house trim, were picked out using a wide range of Victorian house colors exterior. Often more than one color was used to cause maximum impact.
Depending on which stage of the Victorian period your house was built, or is modeled upon, the following paint types and colors were popular:
Often it is not about which part of the Victorian era your house was built, or styled upon, but more what its construction is:
Extending the exterior theme out into the garden, try painting any fences in what was called at the time, an “invisible green.” The idea was that the fence railings, gates, and garden benches would “disappear” into the foliage and greenery of the garden. In the later part of the nineteenth century (late Victorian period), it also became fashionable in more well-to-do households to use a bronzing powder paint to highlight outdoor features – fence posts and finials for example.
You should use exterior gloss paint on architectural details such as wooden beams, window frames, and doors – black was popular on traditional Victorian brick houses, but off-white is equally acceptable on Victorian-style houses of today.
The exterior of Victorian house colors are wide and varied, and can easily be used in any combination you wish. As long as you remember to emphasize the architectural details with a different colored paint to your main color choice, you can’t go wrong.
Classic American House Styles
Authentic colors and characteristics of popular American house designs including Ranch style, Craftsman, Victorian, and Colonial styles are examined in this series of Classics of American house architecture, along with plenty of pictures to help identify them.
- Exterior of Ranch Style Homes
- Guide to the Exterior of Craftsman Style Homes with Pictures
- Paint Your Colonial Style House in Historically Accurate Colors
- Authentic Victorian House Colors, Painting a Victorian House Exterior
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