Accentuating (Painting) exterior stonework/moulding

[asimon]

Hi all,

As you may have seen from previous posts I am doing some renovation to my property dated around 1872, we are looking at painting the front exterior of the property Barley White, keeping the stone work around the windows white, but we are deliberation as to whether we should accentuate the stonework mouldings (see images) in a different colour.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rs8ghx0nqvmvzz5/AACtZPFe6fEMvOq7ZSrGbeHAa

I was wondering if anyone knows how the stone work around the windows would have been painted, did they accentuate the brick work mouldings, if so would it have been a bright colour like a red or more subtle colour.

I am looking at going to my local main library and seeing if there are any archives of buildings of my road, to see if I can get an idea, but would like to hear form this forum, as the feedback I get is very useful.
Any images of similar properties and how they have been painted, whether it has been the original or a contemporary look.

Thanks again to this forum

 

[livias]

I used to live in a row of houses which are very similar and originally the stonework would not have been painted. By the time I moved in nearly all of the houses had painted stonework, the exception being mine which was very grubby after 100 years of pollution staining. The stonemason who lived across the road convinced me that I should leave it unpainted but grubby as it would be less likely to decay. He was right because my stonework was in much better condition than that on most other houses. He later removed the paint from his own stonework and repaired the decay and it looked LOVELY

As your stonework has already been painted, it can do no harm to paint it again in what ever colour you like. Can I put in a plea for NOT painting a house facade in cream with white windows. I think it looks both dull and horrible because the colours are too similar. How about doing it in a deeper shade of barley than the wall?

 

[88v8]

On my route to primary school, there once was a bungalow, brick, with the bricks pink and the pointing picked out in sky blue. Or was it blue with pink pointing, errrm?
Anyway, It was distinctive.

At least with paint, if you don't like it after you do a section, you can redo it. Agree with livias about white on white. Makes me think of estate agents.

If you're temporarily stuck with those horrid plastic windows and door, you know you can paint them? Just rub down with 100 grade sandpaper, and apply two coats of oil gloss.

Ivor

 

[asimon]

Are you suggesting for example that if we paint the Wall "Barley White", all the stonework around the window should be a deeper shade of Barley and not white, or should just the more decorative parts of the stone work be a deeper shade of barley

 

[livias]

Well its your choice because after all you have tyo live with it and I don't. Myself, I would do all the window in deep Barley

My Grandad was a Norwich City fan, so when he bought his rented cottage, he painted the windows and doors in bright green and yellow :mrgreen:

 

[vicky whitworth]

Up the canaries! My husband is a Norwich City fan and has NCFC dressing gown and slippers. Please dont tell him that repainting the house is an option.