While painting your home's exterior is part of maintaining your investment, you also want it to reflect you. You want your taste and style to create a feeling that you're happy to come back to at the end of the day. A place you're proud to call home.
One of the tools I use when working with my clients is creating a Photoshop color rendering to give an overall idea of the new look. The photo rendering allows my client to feel the mood a particular color combination carries.
The next step is narrowing down the choices and putting paint swatches up on the exterior. While a digital rendering is fantastic in establishing a design concept, seeing how color behaves during different times of day in a different light is something a rendering can't capture.
Once the paint samples are up, and you've lived with it, seeing it in the morning, afternoon, and evening, you can be confident that these are the colors for you and your home.