Can I ask for help to paint my house?

[sickofpainting]

My mum has given us a £200 voucher for Farrow and ball. Yes just farrow and ball and yes £200 on paint anyway we've just finished decorating the inside of the house but she wants us to out it towards painting the lintels and coving on the outside of the house. We have a very basic 2 up 2 down terrace but it has Victorian lintels that can be painted. I've ordered a new front door that is being painted stiffkey blue.

I really want blue for the outside but their website seems to suggest no blue goes with stiffkey blue.

What would you paint it? It's the best I can do with Apple photos..

The coving around the front door is like 2 foot deep. It's like a little stone porch. Would grey work? But then grey is boring

How about black? I think it would look really nice with the brick and make the blue stand out.

Oooh I second black, will make the blue pop

Ooh black is something I hadn't considered! This is very similar to the door I've ordered they went for white but white picks up all the crap off the road. We live literally bang on a busy road the walls get filthy

Not black, I'd go much lighter.
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You could paint the whole thing but your brick is lovely!

I have see there is a sort of bottom part to house that can also be painted.. Match that up..

I was hoping to find a complimentary shade of blue but I don't think it exists 🤦‍♀️ would Hague blue work?

Don't Farrow & Ball have 'colour consultants' or suchlike? I bet they'd be all over this.

Is the stone already painted? If it's not, just clean it up. Definitely don't paint it any unnatural colour.

I think I'm going to go for this one, or the white that compliments stiffkey blue. I'll go to the shop today and have a look. We live not far away from chatsworth so it's not unusual to see colourful house fronts.

I think dark blue would potentially look odd against the brown of the brick, and black would give the house a dark appearance when it already looks quite dark in colour.

I'd stick with something light (off white light grey, grey/blue or sage green at rhe moat and mainly ensure the proper prep work is done with the correct products for exterior painting or it won't last long before it cracks off. It's a pretty house!

Neighbours down the road did theirs bright blue one year ago in lockdown one and already it's all peeled off in chunks showing the white underneath, it looks awful. Goodness knows what they did.

Narrowed it down to these

I love Oval Room Blue !

I'd have gone with Ammonite as that goes really well with Stiffkey blue, I have it in my spare living room.

Middle blue or to the right

All that stone colour brick work around windows, door and base of house paint.