Commercial and Residential Painting Contractors

Our services cover the following;

Restoring and painting windows, doors & trims. We will paint your historic house windows, doors, and trims to highlight the beauty and details of your historic house. We restore and paint the porch area and columns. The cheapest way to freshen your porch is to liven it up with new colors. Let us give your historic house an elegant looking appearance by painting your columns and porch.

Interior Painting

The interior of a historical house allows you to explore lots of color options. But, remember you can always make the interior colors suit your personal taste. Whatever color you may want to choose for the interior, Spectra Painting Contractors are readily available to give your space the splash of life it needs with colorful, quality paints. Our interior painting services cover;

• Repairing and repainting all high ceilings with the right equipment
• Restoring and painting of crown moldings
• Restore and repaint windows & doors trims
• Restore wood baseboard paint
• Painting or staining wood stairs
• Repaint wood fireplace

Consider some of the best exterior paint colors for your historical colonial house;

Classic Paint Colors

The classic colonial homes are the earliest colonial homes, which were mostly painted in simple, earth tones. You’d often find these home styles in colors like dark brown, ochre, almond, creamy yellow, beige, muted green, and taupe. These colors were commonly used because the pigments were created from natural elements that were available at that time; such as ochre, sienna, plants, and minerals. Dark colors are preferred for the chimney of a classic colonial- it creates an impressive contrast.

Dutch Paint Colors

Dutch colonial homes often feature neutral tones, light, or pale colors. Dark colors like black or navy are preferred for the trims. You can also go on the warmer side by using beige as the main color and crisp white color for the trims.

Georgian Paint Colors

The Georgian style reflects wealth and class. This style embraces a range of bold colors including grays, peach, earthy yellow, sage green, and blue. Deep, rich colors, such as burgundy, navy, black, and gold are preferred as trims and doors to create accents. In Georgian times, the blue pigment was rare and expensive so it was limited to upper-class colonial homes.

Federal paint colors

The federal colonial homes were on the lighter and delicate color scheme. Preferred colors for federal colonial houses include rich creams, sage greens, peach, softer yellow, pumpkins, and a mix of grays and whites. Some other hues of delicate colors later into trends- pale green, lemon yellow, primrose, and Wedgewood blue. It’s much easier for you to choose a color for your federal colonial house because there are a lot of them available.

Greek Revival Paint Color

Greek Revival houses were painted white, off-white, cream, ochre, or gray to mimic the sun-bleached stones of Greek temples. The plain colors of Greek Revival houses make them stand out in the community. If you are looking to create a positive attraction to your home, you can have it painted in Greek Revival colors.

Victorian Age Paint Colors

Middle-class houses became more vibrant and colorful in the Victorian age. Houses were painted in muted colors, such as beige, taupe, ecru, russet, and ochre, while trims were mostly painted white or creams, and doors were commonly green or black. Deeper and richer colors dominated around this time. If you are looking to recreate a Victorian age colonial house style, you shouldn’t be afraid to try deep and rich colors. These colors make your house a center of attraction in your community.