I need suggestions for painting an 1898 Victorian House

Visit your local restoration society to see what colors were used at the time the house was built and use that as your guide. Or just paint any color that fits in with the neighborhood. !Lemon yellow with a white trim would be pretty. A white house with black trim can be striking.

I would check with the Historical Society in your area to be sure you use the correct paints/colors for the time period when the house was built. Since it is Victorian, you would not want to paint it a color that is too modern looking. It sounds like a beautiful house-personally, I love the old homes-they have so much character & you wouldn't want to take away from that. Good luck-post some pics when you are finished.

https://www.thisoldhouse.com/ideas/paint-color-ideas-ornate-victorian-houses

What a wonderful house. Thank you for preserving it. Victorians liked color, so if you want to go that route, try This Old House: Paint-Color Ideas for Ornate Victorian Houses | This Old House

The colors below won a price in 2015 in Chicago. Personally, I'm partial to white houses with dark trims, but it's really up to you. Good luck.

Have you checked with your local historical society, they usually have paint recommendations and in some historical districts,, the color selection must be approved by them. https://www.google.com/search?q=pictures+of+Kansas+victorian+paint+colors&client=opera&hs=UX2&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjItvS5j4fXAhUO-GMKHXV9CUkQ7AkIQQ&biw=1302&bih=669

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First check to see if you are in a historical area. If you are then you have to follow their guide lines. If your not you can paint it what ever color you like but be sure to clean and prep it well so you don't have to paint again in a year or so. Victorians usually mixed several colors on their houses and you can go onto different sites to see their suggestions. I personally like a two or three tone house. A base color, a trim color and a contrasting door and shutter color. Maybe sage green for siding, white for trim and black for shutters and door. But it is your house and you should use he colors you like best. Just suggestion though, buy samples and try them on the back of the house first and see if you really like the color outside and in a large area. Expensive if you paint the whole thing and don't like it afterwards!

If you live in a historic district, you must confer with the historic society about colors. They may also help you research historic records as to how it may have once been painted.

I live near Savannah, GA and white with black shutters seems to be the norm in our historic district and plantation homes. Love your house. Have fun!

You have what might be categorized as a "painted lady," which is a typical house of the Victorian era. Do some research on painted ladies and choose colors that appeal to you and would be appropriate to the time. Typically these homes were painted in color units of 3 or 5 or, sometimes, more. In other words, three colors or five colors. Almost always an odd number.

Many books have been published about these lovely homes. Check your library or the Internet for some of them. You will enjoy reading and paging through them.

Although I love houses like this painted many different colors, in our case cost of such a paint job would be a big factor. You have one of the houses of my dreams. I imagine this is very big with a lot of rooms? I think you mentioned a stove? My daughter had the 1940's stove (6 burner) in her house repaired. . . it was costly but well worth it as the size would have been hard to replace and it fits its space exactly.

See if your city or county govt. has an Historic District Commission under their jurisdiction that dictates colors. I worked for an HDC in Howard County MD, and homes in the historic districts had to go before a Commission when doing exterior painting or renovations.

I live in Catonsville MD, and there are lots of houses like this in my neighborhood and when they are painted and decorated correctly, the homes are so lovely.

Take your time, do your research, and you'll end up with a gem. I do like the colors that Bijous 2010 submitted.

Look online at some of the “painted ladies” as they are called, in San Francisco to give you ideas; some of them are quite ornate with many colors on the small details, etc. You have a beautiful home. Good luck!

I owned one of these turn of the century homes a while ago. It was painted white when I bought it. I painted it a taupe base color, used white on the Corinthian columns and chose a muted turquoise and muted Terra cotta for the trim. Used the taupe color on the porch deck and the caps of the columns. People were yelling complements out of their car windows. Really was beautiful if I don't say so myself.