This is one of my favorite pet peeves. Inappropriate colors for homes. If you're gonna be placing your home on the market.
Make it marketable.
Mission revival homes should only be in shades of a natural adobe. Colors such as Green, Blue, Gray, Yellow, Pink, Orange and Reds should be avoided.
blue
red
orange
pink
green
Anything that is not White, tan or Beige should be seriously rethought out.
There are plenty of opportunities to introduce color to your Mission Revival homes without ruining the appearance of the home. Trim color of the woodwork, pottery and Malibu tiles can bring in color without overloading.
[photos coming soon of colorful details]
I would like to recommend the book by Arroll Gellner entitled "Red Tile Style: America's Spanish Revival Architecture" . This book is an excellent resource for the mission revival and for getting it correct.
Getting it right starts with calling the style Mission Revival and not the common "Mediterranean". Mediterranean should be reserved for building with architectural DNA to the actual region around the Mediterranean Ocean. Think Portofino, Pompeii, Sicily or Santorini and that is Mediterranean design.
Mission Revival grew out of the 1915 Panama-California Exposition in San Diego's Balboa Park. The houses were intended to honor the California Missions that were being restored throughout the state at that time.
