The choice of tones for a facade comes down to the client's personal taste. Either direction can look equally interesting and stylish.

In this project, for example, the range of tones is fairly wide, yet all four options look bright, polished, and entirely fitting.

The light shades look fresh, open, and welcoming.

Keep in mind, though, that a darker color heats up more in the sun, so the temperature inside will rise more in hot weather, too.

Saturated colors are also more prone to fading.

One more important detail about shades: even if you're absolutely delighted with the chosen color in the project, sketch, or rendering, in reality it will turn out a little different—so it's worth doing test swatches of the actual paint.

Summer, the sea — well, not really) But we can dream.

The designs for this project are in the Mediterranean style.

The defining feature of the Mediterranean style — color: the walls should be light, so they reflect the sun and keep the rooms from overheating. That's why the main wall finish for the house in our project — beige plaster with a textured application. Shutters, pergolas for climbing plants, a large balcony, and majolica above the windows all help round out the complete look of the house.

The first sketch for the new project.

The client likes the modern style and light colors. With that in mind, we suggest finishing the main body of the house in several shades of plaster and adding rustication on the bay window for decoration. We would keep the plinth fairly narrow, in graphite-colored stone, and combine it with vertical groupings of planken inserts in places.