Dispatch From New Orleans

New Orleans House Paint Colors: Periwinkle Blue, Mustard and Custard — Mid-City

This house is blatantly, flagrantly, willfully charming. I'm calling the lighter yellow "custard" just to sound cute, but it's really a sweet, pale creamy yellow. Kinda like custard, actually.

Here's what they did:

Bottom siding and fascia: Periwinkle blue
Bottom window frames, detail on posts and trim: Mustard
Upper siding, posts, porch ceiling, upper railing and details: Custard
Doors: Brown
Ironwork: Black

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

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 

Porch Patrol: Pumpkin time in the Big Easy

House colors:

Siding: lavender

Trim: White

Door and shutters: Black

Porch: Gray

Hardware: Brass

Porch Patrol: From the inside looking out in Mid-City

Truth be told, this porch isn't much to look at compared to other porches in New Orleans. But the view from the inside looking out is unsurpassed. What you see here is City Park on a rainy Friday morning in September. City Park is, at 1,300 acres, the fifth largest urban park in the country, and is far bigger than New York's Central Park. For those looking out at the park from their porches, this equates to 1,300 acres of landscaping that someone else maintains. Oh, yeah!

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Porch Patrol: Red chairs in Mid-City

The house is a little rough, but the red rocking chairs save the day!

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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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Porch Patrol: Green chairs in Mid-City

Everything about this house rocks. But the green chairs and table make everything pop!

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