Article: Exterior Paint Schemes For Historical Houses
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Exterior Paint Schemes For Historical Houses
Owners of historical homes know that choosing paint colors is a nerve-wracking and critically important decision - if they want their homes to be historically accurate. But there are ways to figure out exterior paint schemes if the owners use the 9 ideas below to ensure accuracy.
Ready-mix paints have been available since the middle part of the nineteenth century and from that time home owners have had to choose their colors without really knowing how their finished home will look. After all, a two inch paint chip looks very different from a 3,000 square foot house!
In a visit to New England in the 1840s, famed novelist Charles Dickens commented, "All the buildings looked as if they had been painted that morning ... Every house is the whitest of white; every s...
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