Dispatch From New Orleans

New Orleans House Paint Colors: Olive Green, Fuchsia, Indigo and More!

Before the paint job, this house was extremely boring (photo below). When I saw it up for sale, I thought: Who would want such a boring house? Then, it got painted by the new owners and WOW! They had vision. Here's what they did:

Brick exterior: Olive green
Fascia: Fuchsia
Windows: Yellow and orange
Door: Fuchsia and Yellow 
Shutters: Deep blue
Ironwork: Purple 
Picket fence: Butter yellow 

Bravo! And thanks for brightening up the neighborhood!

New Orleans House Paint Colors: Periwinkle Blue, White and Yellow

How can you go wrong with this combination? (click on photo for a larger view)

This lovely raised Creole cottage just off Marconi near City Park is luminous with its periwinkle lap siding, softly yellow doors and bright white trim.

It's simple and stunning.

Siding: Periwinkle blue
Trim: White
Doors: Yellow 
Roofing: Gray 

New Orleans House Colors: Mid-City

House Colors:

Siding: Tan

Trim: White

Window screens: Periwinkle blue

Foundation: Pumpkin

Fencing: Periwinkle blue

Porch Patrol: Pumpkin time in the Big Easy

House colors:

Siding: lavender

Trim: White

Door and shutters: Black

Porch: Gray

Hardware: Brass

New Orleans House Colors: Mid-City

I love this blue double shotgun Victorian. But what really makes it shine is the bright lime green of the chairs and table and the big burgundy pot on top. Who knew that was magic? Here are the colors that make the whole thing happen:

• Siding and attic window frame: Blue

• Door frames, fascia and rickrack trim: White

• Window mullions, trim and bands on posts: Burgundy

• Doors: Natural wood

• Chairs and table: Lime green

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New Orleans House Colors: French Quarter

This stucco building on Esplanade Avenue in the French Quarter is so extremely attractive. Strange as it sounds, this home has elements of a fairly typical Victorian color scheme. I could almost eat it. Here are the colors involved:

• Stucco: Terra Cotta

• Shutters: Periwinkle blue

• Columns, window frames, door frames: Ecru

• Column bases: Brick red

• Ironwork: Black

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New Orleans House Colors: Lower 9th Ward

This beautiful little cottage is right on the levee in the Holy Cross area of the Lower 9th Ward. The exterior colors include:

• House siding: Bright yellow

• Doors, window mullions and foundation: Pumpkin orange

• Door jambs, door trim, window frames, fascia, and corner quoins: Periwinkle blue

• Steps, cornice above windows: Mint green

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New Orleans House Colors: Mid-City

White on white looks pretty good if you've got a near-mansion with a red tile roof, brick or stone work, plus black iron railings. Otherwise, add some color.

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New Orleans House Colors: Lower 9th Ward

Here's another gorgeous renovated specimen in the Holy Cross area of the Lower 9th Ward. This house was originally a double shotgun, and has been converted into a single. It is absolutely gorgeous inside, with high ceilings, beautiful hardwood floors, and a large granite-counter kitchen. The colors used on the exterior include:

• Siding and deck: Taupe

• Shutters (closable during hurricanes): Olive

• Doors and cornice over attic windows: Red

• Trim, windows and corner quoins: Cream

• Porch ceiling: Sky blue

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Porch Patrol: Leafy bricks in Mid-City

This porch near City Park is so appealing with the brick steps, leafy greens, red-painted deck, red shutters, gray siding and wooden doors with glass inserts. There's a baby swing to the left, which makes me think a youngster lives here. The sign inside the glass door says: "Closed for Big Tymers." I have no idea what that means.

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New Orleans House Colors: Lower 9th Ward: Holy Cross

This is supposedly the first Katrina Cottage built in New Orleans after the storm. The plans and materials came from Lowe's and a local contractor working for the Preservation Resource Center put it together. There were great hopes for these little homes as an alternative to formaldehyde-poisoned trailers for quick homes for hurricane victims. But this house only just sold — for under $90,000 — and it's four years after the levees failed. The standing-seam metal roof is awfully cute, though.

The exterior colors on this modest home include:

Siding, porch deck and steps: Tan

Trim and railing: White

Doors and porch ceiling: Bright blue

New Orleans House Colors: Mid-City

In Mid-City, this exterior colors of this lovely home include:

Wood siding: Cream brick-red 

Trim: Butter yellow

Doors: Dark stain

Porch ceiling: Hunter green

Porch light and bench: Black iron

Cat warily watching me and my dog walk by: Black and white

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New Orleans House Colors: Jefferson Parish

Do you love the colors of this house?