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How to pick exterior paint colors that go with brick

Choosing exterior paint colors that coordinate with existing brick requires deciding whether to complement the brick or paint over everything else instead. Trying to guess how off-white paint and black trim will look against unpainted brick leads to uncertainty about how to properly match the elements without clashing.

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

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    looking at what nearby brick houses are doing with black or blue paint

In their words

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I’m wanting to keep the brick and do an off white with black trim. Any thoughts?source ↗

PossibleOk582 · r/homeowners · 33 upvotes

I meant paint everything BUT the bricksource ↗

OnlyFreshBrine · r/homeowners · 2 upvotes

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