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Try Exterior Paint Colors for Craftsman Homes on Your Own House

Upload a photo of your Craftsman or bungalow, describe the siding and trim colors in a sentence, and see how sage, blue-gray, olive or a warm earth tone looks with your porch, stone and wood door before you buy a sample.

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Upload a front photo of the house and describe the new colors. Say which parts change, such as the siding, trim and porch columns, and which stay, such as the stone piers, the wood door and the roof.

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Craftsman House Colors, Before and After

AI-generated sample edits of two Craftsman-style houses. The before photos are AI-drawn stand-in houses, not photos of real homes. Each edit was run once, and each caption shows the exact instruction we typed, what changed, what stayed and what the model got wrong. The samples were made with an image model and settings that may differ from the live paint tool, so your own render may look different. A render shows a color idea, not real paint on a real house.

Craftsman bungalow with tan lap siding, white trim, round white porch columns on stone piers, a stone foundation, a wood front door and a gray shingle roof, beforeBefore
The same Craftsman bungalow with deep sage green siding and pale yellow trim and columns, with the stone piers, wood door and roof keptAfter
Tan to sage on a Craftsman bungalow. We typed: “Repaint the siding a deep sage green and repaint the trim and the porch columns a warm cream. Keep the stone bases, the wood front door, the roof, the roofline, the lawn, the plants, the sky and the camera angle exactly the same.” The siding, gables included, is now deep sage, and the stone piers, stone foundation, wood door, roof and lawn look the same. What went wrong: the trim, fascia and columns came out a pale butter yellow, clearly more yellow than the cream we asked for, and some window casings stayed white, so the trim is not one color. The neighbor’s house on the right also shifted from beige toward olive, which we did not ask for. Asking for “off-white” or naming every window casing should help.
Two-story Craftsman house with gray cedar shingle siding, a wide front porch with round white columns and a white railing, a wood front door and a dark shingle roof, beforeBefore
The same Craftsman house with deep blue-gray siding and off-white porch columns and railing, with the wood front door and dark roof keptAfter
Gray shingles to deep blue-gray on a two-story Craftsman. We typed: “Repaint the siding a deep blue-gray and repaint the trim and the porch columns off-white. Keep the wood front door, the porch, the roof, the roofline, the lawn, the plants, the sky and the camera angle exactly the same.” The walls are deep blue-gray, the columns, porch beam and railing are a creamy off-white, and the window trim reads white. The wood door, roof, lawn and shrubs look the same. What went wrong: the cedar shingle texture turned into flat horizontal lap siding, so the material changed, not just the color, and the house number changed slightly. If your house has shingles, say “keep the shingle texture” in the instruction.

How to Preview Exterior Colors on Your Craftsman House

  1. Shoot the porch and the gables. Get the full front in one photo, including the porch columns, the roof brackets and the gable ends. Shoot on an overcast day or with the sun behind you to avoid hard shadows.
  2. Open the paint tool in Custom mode. Upload the photo and describe the change in one sentence: “Paint the siding a deep sage green and the trim and columns off-white. Keep the stone piers, the wood front door, the shingle texture and the roof exactly the same.” Naming the texture helps, because in our blue-gray sample the shingles turned into lap siding. If you want cream trim, check it did not come out yellow.
  3. Compare a body color, a trim color and one accent. Render a short list, for example sage with cream, blue-gray with off-white and a deep olive with warm cream, and look at each with your roof and stone. Download your renders, compare them, then paint large samples on the house.

For the main tool see the exterior paint visualizer. To change one part at a time, try the trim paint color visualizer, the front door color visualizer or our porch paint colors page. If your Craftsman has stone on the front, see exterior paint colors with stone.

Exterior Colors to Try on a Craftsman House

Historic earth tones

Sherwin-Williams’ Arts & Crafts preservation palette pairs a wall, trim and accent color, for example Craftsman Brown SW 2835 with Roycroft Vellum SW 2833 trim and Quartersawn Oak SW 2836, or Roycroft Bronze Green SW 2846 with Birdseye Maple SW 2834 and Hammered Silver SW 2840. The palette is dated 2001, so check that a color is still sold.

Sage and olive with cream trim

Homestyler suggests a sage body with cream trim and a darker stair riser or balustrade. CompositePaint shows a deep olive body with a warm cream trim, PPG Heavy Cream PPG1098-2, and says to keep the trim light so the rooflines and columns stand out. Our sage sample shows the risk: the cream came out yellow.

Two body colors, upper and lower

Arts & Crafts Homes, writing about Sherwin-Williams colors, says a bungalow with clapboards below and shingles above needs a double-body scheme; for one bungalow it suggests Watery SW 6478 clapboards with Persimmon SW 6339 gable shingles. Brick & Batten shows Benjamin Moore Elemental AF-400 on the lower siding with Aegean Olive 1491 above.

Dark bodies with light trim

Brick & Batten shows Benjamin Moore Black Beauty 2128-10 siding with Sherwin-Williams Westhighland White SW 7566 trim, Sherwin-Williams Iron Ore with Benjamin Moore Simply White trim, and Benjamin Moore Black Forest Green HC-187 with Revere Pewter HC-172.

Blue and blue-gray

Board & Vellum, a Seattle design firm, suggests blues such as Sherwin-Williams Smoky Blue SW 7604 or Benjamin Moore Labrador Blue CC-740 with white trim or cedar. Homestyler warns that grayish blues can look grayer in low sun, so check your shade in evening light.

Bolder picks: gold, yellow and orange

Designing Idea says amber, yellow and gold with olive and russet were common in the 1920s, and lists Glidden Craftsman Gold PPG1092-4 with white trim. Board & Vellum shows Sherwin-Williams Gambol Gold SW 6690 with black trim and Sherwin-Williams Harvest Gold SW 2858.

Before You Choose Exterior Colors for a Craftsman

  • Plan the whole scheme. Designing Idea suggests one major trim color, one minor trim color and one or two accents, rather than a single body and trim.
  • Keep what is expensive to change. Stone piers, brick and a stained wood door usually stay, so pick a body color that suits them, and name them in the instruction so the render keeps them.
  • Use one bright accent. Homestyler suggests a neutral body with one teal or deep red door, and says bright colors work better on doors or posts than on the whole body.
  • Test big samples. Arts & Crafts Homes suggests large brush-outs on poster board rather than small patches on the wall, and Homestyler suggests living with samples for a week and looking at them at dawn and dusk.
  • Mind the texture. If your house has cedar shingles, say so in the instruction; in our blue-gray sample the model flattened them into lap siding.

Exterior Paint Colors for Craftsman Homes FAQ

Is it free to try?+

You need a free account to generate. New accounts get 1 free render, and free renders carry a small watermark. After that, paid plans on the pricing page give you more renders without the watermark.

Do I need to sign up?+

Yes. Rendering requires an account so your credits and results can be saved. You can sign in with Google or a one-time code sent to your email.

What exterior colors are traditional for Craftsman homes?+

Earth tones. Sherwin-Williams’ Arts & Crafts preservation palette is built from browns, tans, bronze and bottle greens such as Craftsman Brown SW 2835 and Roycroft Bronze Green SW 2846, with light trim such as Roycroft Vellum SW 2833. Brick & Batten also notes that Craftsman homes were originally painted in earth tones. Try two or three of these on a photo of your own house.

Can I use two siding colors on a Craftsman?+

Yes, and on many bungalows it fits the house. Arts & Crafts Homes says a bungalow with clapboards below and shingles above needs a double-body scheme, and Brick & Batten shows upper and lower siding in two colors. In the tool, name both: “paint the lower siding sage and the gable shingles a darker olive.”

Why did my cream trim come out yellow?+

In our sage sample, “warm cream” came out pale butter yellow. The model can push warm whites toward yellow. Ask for “off-white” or “a creamy white, not yellow,” and check the render next to a real paint chip.

Will the tool keep my stone piers, wood door and porch?+

It should if you name them. In both samples the stone, the wood door and the roof stayed. It is an AI edit, not a mask, though: in the blue-gray sample the shingle texture changed to lap siding, so also name the siding texture you want to keep.

What trim color goes with a Craftsman house?+

Many palettes use a light warm trim, such as cream or vellum, so the roofline, brackets and columns stand out. Designing Idea suggests one main trim color, one minor trim color and one or two accents. Dark trim on a mid-tone body is another option.

Will the render match the real paint?+

No. The render shows a color idea, not a paint chip, and outdoor light changes how a color looks through the day. Paint large samples on the house before you buy gallons.

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