6 Blue Exterior House Colors (and the Winner)

I love paint colors. I don’t think anyone is surprised by that statement, but I thought I’d clarify just in case someone thought I was secretly really into monster trucks or something. I’m not. I think a large percentage of the population would rather claw their eyes out (or worse, talk about monster trucks) than read a blog about paint colors, but I’m not one of them. And I’m thinking, that if you are here reading this, you just might be right there with me. Either that or you are just here to watch me design the ugliest house you have ever laid eyes on. Either way, let’s dig in.

For the exterior of my house I wanted a dirty blue/teal/aqua color. Remember this picture for my exterior inspiration post?

Take my money, that is exactly what I wanted. So picking out that color was my first and most important mission. I also had a second and less important but still important mission, which was to not overthink the crap out of choosing this paint color. I may (I definitely do) have a history of that. I know what I want….now I just slap some samples on the wall, pick one, and move on.

I immediately chose to try Aegean Teal by Benjamin Moore, since it was the color of the year in 2021 and super popular.

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Figured I couldn’t really go wrong with that choice, since I was seeing it everywhere and loved it every time.

Then the little guy and I took a trip to Home Depot and choose five more colors.

Here are the candidates we chose –

6 Blue Exterior House Colors

• Aegean Teal
• Baritone
• Dragonfly
• Provence Blue
• Sophisticated Teal
• Venus Teal

I got all of these from Home Depot including the Aegean Teal, even though it’s a Benjamin Moore color. Did you know you can get paint colors made by other companies (Sherwin Williams, Benjamin Moore, etc) at Home Depot? They have the formulas for colors from other companies stored in their system, so just give them the color name and they can make it.

So here are my six samples up on the wall, in alphabetical order (I always recommend putting them in alphabetical order, in case you forget which is which.)

From there I picked three to paint in another location… next to the orangy wood siding on the front.

So here is Dragonfly, Sophisticated Teal, and Venus Teal.

While the lightest color is what I had in mind this whole time, there was something about that super dark teal I just loved. I had grabbed that sample just for the hell of it, probably so I would have something to eliminate immediately. But no…I loved it.

So I painted it in one more place just to be sure it was the one.

And it was. Then I resisted the urge to go back to Home Depot and grab five more samples of dark teal (because, you know,  it’s a whole new color category and all) and sent my selection off to the builder.

 

 

Did this color make me nervous? Heck yes. But fear is stupid when it comes to design, so Sophisticated Teal (that the neighbors might hate me for) was the winner.

I also selected Tricorn Black from Sherwin Williams for the trim color….I didn’t even give myself multiple options on that.

Tricorn black is a very popular color right now, and for good reason. It is a true black without any undertones. It’s not charcoal in some lights, or brownish black, or anything besides just plain old pure black.

So those are my exterior paint color selections, which I picked all in one day with minimal overthinking. I can feel y’all giving me a virtual pat on the back, and I want you to know I appreciate it. Here’s to growth 🍻

And now you get to come back later this week for part II, where this plan goes completely wrong.

 

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