Paint brochures provide newest schemes 1. Asking major paint stores popular colors 2. Immediate neighborhood surroundings 3. House painting apps 4. Asking paint contractor popular colors 5. Home Associations 6. Choosing paint colors can be a monumental task. But simplifying this important decision either matching, going with same colors is the easiest. However picking a completely different color scheme may bring new life and vigor on your home's surfaces. Typically, trim is painted with lighter colors, siding or body darker. Really there is no cookie cutter recipe. It's really whatever you like. Suggestions include looking over paint stores brochures, looking around your immediate neighborhood for likable color schemes, or using house painting apps. Walking into your local Sherwin-Williams or Benjamin-Moore asking who sells the most, what is going out the door. Combining two or three colors on the same swatch is easiest and safest to do. Asking what colors most popular from your painting contractor. Another form, would be asking any Home Association, as they may have an approved list of colors. If choosing same colors, taking a piece of gutter downspout and/or a dryer vent in to your local paint store matching colors exactly.