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Historic Color Collection
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House Painting
Suggestions in regard to desirable shades and trimmings.
For dwellings in elevated or exposed situations - grays, drabs, olives and other dark colors are most desirable. For dwellings not so situated or which are surrounded by shade trees, the yellow and lighter tints are preferable.
When the molding, cornice or other ornamental work is heavy, i.e., presents a large surface, the lighter trimming shades should be used, and where the ornamental work is light and graceful in design, the darker trimming shades are more effective.
-The Painter's Encyclopedia
Franklin B. Gardner
1891
The colors depicted are created with the RBG "additive" color method. The hexadecimal color code is attached to each color for easy duplication on a computer.
* The colors shown above are not specific color matches taken from actual historic homes. They are representations of "typical" historic colors as seen on various color cards and historic color collections.
The dark, grayed and muddy colors shown above are fairly typical of the late Victorian period of the 1870's through the 1890's
Old historic exterior paint was made from raw linseed oil and tinted on the job by the house painter. On the interior, water based calsomine paint may have been used with oil enamel on the trim. Everything was brush applied of course - there were no rollers in those days.
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