Accenting your home?s architecture with color is an inexpensive way to make your home look new and improved, especially if you?re willing to paint it yourself. Before taking on this task, it helps to become familiar with some basic color vocabulary terms. Choosing a color scheme (a group of colors used to create a visual harmony) is the first step in making your exterior look better. For example, maybe you want to go with blues, reds, yellows, greens, Earth tones or neutrals. Cool

colors are greens, blues and violets, while warm colors are reds, oranges, yellows and browns. To make a color a tint, you have to add white to it so it becomes lighter. To make a color a tone, you have to add gray to it. If you?re trying to create some allusions, keep in mind that receding colors (cool and light colors) make surfaces appear farther away.

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Painting 101: Color Vocabulary Review