Home Exterior Painting Tips Daring home exterior paint colors are often fun and bold, they usually only exist as trends and tend to go out of style as quickly as they came into style. This opens up the potential for a lot of regret if you feel like you have to change your paint color to keep up with the trend. The light yellow color is extremely inviting, plain and simple. It’s a classic color. If you want to give your home a welcoming curb appeal, then this would be a great choice. A light neutral like tan or khaki is also not a bad choice especially when it comes to exterior painting. This color is easy to landscape around, as well as decorate around with trim and shutters. If you live in a more traditional type of neighborhood, this would be a color that would blend well, no doubt. Red paint is probably a classic because of red brick homes. Something about the color that is just homey, and many homeowners are painting their homes with this color. It's a strong and comforting color, and pairs nicely with classic white shutters. Green really shows up well against brick red, which makes it ideal for homes with a lot of landscaping. A lot of homeowners wait too long before repainting the exterior of their house, thinking they are saving money by delaying the needed work. Instead they end up with major paint deterioration, wood cracks, dry rot, deep mold and mildew and water damage which are very expensive to fix.