Why we built this
Choosing an exterior color is a big, slow, expensive decision, and the tools for it have not kept up. Every large paint company has a visualizer. Most of them ask you to paint a stock house that looks nothing like yours. The rest ask you to trace every wall, window and gutter on your own photo with a brush tool, on a phone, before you can see a single color.
We wanted the obvious thing: take one photo, pick real colors, and see your own house repainted. So that is all this site does. It repaints the outside of your house (siding, trim, front door, shutters, roof or brick) in real paint colors, and it leaves everything else alone.
What it does and doesn't do
- It does: exterior paint colors on your own photo, roof colors, painted and limewashed brick, side-by-side comparisons, and the paint codes to take to the store.
- It doesn't: interiors, remodels, new windows or porches, landscaping, or ordering paint. Other tools do those; we would rather do one job well.
Same house. New color.
If you can't trust that the windows are still where they were, you can't trust the color either. Every render is told to keep the structure, the landscaping and the light exactly as they are, and we check each result for changes beyond paint. When a render changes more than it should, you get a free retry. If you spot something we missed, report it under the result and we add a render back.
Color accuracy and trademarks
Colors on screen are an approximation. Screens differ, and paint looks different in morning sun, afternoon shade and different sheens. Use the visualizer to narrow down your options, then always check a real sample on your house before you buy.
Paint color names and codes belong to their owners. We use them only to identify colors, using each brand's published color values. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any paint company. Roof colors are generic and do not represent any manufacturer's product.
Our example photos
The houses in our examples are real, openly licensed photos from Wikimedia Commons. Each example shows the original photo and the same photo with only the listed surfaces recolored to the listed paint color. We never use visitors' photos in examples.
- 1950s California ranch, board-and-batten and stucco: photo by Mcheath at English Wikipedia, Public domain, source
- Cape Cod with lap siding and two dormers: photo by CityLimitsJunction, CC0, source
- Two-story farmhouse with lap siding and a metal roof: photo by Nyttend, Public domain, source
- Craftsman bungalow with a brick porch and shingle roof: photo by Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, source (cropped and resized; recolored in the examples)
- Brick colonial revival with a full-width balcony: photo by Nyttend, Public domain, source
Contact
Questions, a render that looks wrong, or ideas: hello@housecolorvisualizer.com or the contact form.