Exterior Color Ideas for Gray Colonial with Tan Roof: Free Online Visualizers

Question: Colonial: gray aluminum siding, wood lower front/porch, tan roof (new). Shutters changed cream→colonial blue; door blue. What shutter color works with gray/tan? Picket fence? Porch railings?

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Blue & tan work well. Test shutter colors yourself—you live with it. Picket fence fits Colonial; match porch railing style/color. Picket styles.

Accent with blue-flowering plants (iris, hollyhock, jacaranda) or blue art (gazing ball, statue).

—Marc