House Colors is the most comprehensive resource ever compiled on choosing exterior house colors.
Sorted by architectural style, this format will allow the reader to pinpoint the colors that will best suit their style of home.
It is the ultimate resource for those looking to achieve exceptional color combinations, from subtle to bold, that are so difficult to achieve without professional design assistance.
The information included will supply the homeowner with all of the resource information from manufacturers and retailers that are needed to provide dazzling professional results that will increase the beauty of the home and neighborhood, increase curb appeal and add value to the property while creating pride of ownership for the homeowner.
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HOUSE COLORS Susan Hershman Beautiful, well-chosen exterior color can add significant value to any home investment, not to mention fill its owners with a sense of pride. But finding the right colors through (more…)
House Colors: Exterior Color by Style of Architecture




















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Unique and Inspiring!
This amazing book has obviously been a labor of love for Ms. Hershman. I have never seen such a comprehensive and interesting study of house colors.
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A wonderful source book to get ideas, inspirations….
I love this book so much! It helped me many times to choose even in house colors, let alone helping me with the exterior color. Many friends keep borrowing it from me.
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Help At Last for the Clueless
I was so pleased to get my hands on Susan Hershmans’s House Colors. She makes it so easy to peruse and find just what you want.
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Inspiring Book of Color and Ideas
This is a unique book filled with inspiration about not only color combinations for your home but also exterior home details.
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Love This book!
I thought this book was the most well done and the most useful design book I have ever bought. The woman who wrote this book obviously poured her heart and soul into it.
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Lots of beautiful color combinations, but…
This is a really well thought-out, well documented, beautifully produced book, one that clearly must have been a labor of love for the author and photographers.
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I absolutely love this book
I absolutely love this book. I first saw it when I was browsing at a nearby Benjamin Moore paint store in preparation for giving my house a long over-due paint job, and I knew I…
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Lovely book but…
This is a lovely book with lots of information. However, I bought it to try to decide on a new color scheme for my Cape Cod home, only to find that just one Cape is shown in over…
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Invaluable resource
This book by Susan Hershman has been invaluable in many ways. Since we live in a Victorian City, the book is a way to show off ours and other similar cities.
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Fantastic book
This is the best reference I have ever seen for exterior colors. The pictures are of real houses, not staged for photography and the book gives you the paint brands and numbers…