You Choose the Color!
Hello!
I know updates have been slow coming, but here’s some exciting news: you get to tell us what color to paint the first HGTV Green Home! Starting this Friday, we’ll have a poll up with three options for exterior color schemes and you can vote for your favorite.
In other news, our cohorts over at HGTV Pro have just launched their new feature, Building the 2008 HGTV Green Home. And they’ve already got the first photos from the job site in South Carolina!
And yes, that’s right, HGTV Green Home 2008 is being built in South Carolina. I know there’s been just a bit of confusion in the comments. We’ll have more information soon about the exact location. And starting in late March of 2008, you’ll be able to enter for a chance to win the home!
More HGTV Green Home
HGTV Green Home: The Green Dream
HGTV Green Home Message Board
HGTV Pro: Building the 2008 HGTV Green Home
Green Decorating Basics From Linda Woodrum
HGTV Pro: Building Green From the Basement to the Roof
HGTV Dream Home Central
I would paint the exterior a yellow called Gaugin by Sherwin Williams with while trim. It looks great.
Hellooooooooooooooo! Anybody home? I would love to see you again! I know the updates are coming, I’m just getting a little anxious and excited to see more. No pressure
Since it’s a green home and in tune with nature and the home’s surroundings, why not beautiful shades of earth tones?
How Wonderful!!..It is great to know the first HGTV Green Home will be built in SC Lowcountry…I currently live 1 hr from the SC Coast and can’t wait to see all the “Green” attributes put in it…..I sure would love to win this home……..It’s all about the environment…
Baby Blue with light Yellow will stand out with the rich sorrounding, Ive never had a house but this would be my dream, I currently live in the Bronx in NY so I dont get to see many beautiful homes, make is safe, and a home for generations.
How about a dweepsstake that would retrofit the winners home with the latest energy savings devices. I would volunteer my home for a starter program. Nice of me huh
The GREEN HOME should be GREEN of course.
It’s great that HGTV is setting such an example for green construction. Unfortunately, we’ve become such a wasteful society with a “dispose of” option. Perhaps your actions will motivate our government to better promote “green” construction as well. Thanks HGTV for helping bring GREEN to the frontline.
I think an earth tone color would be pretty. Maybe a dark Khaki with white trim. Love the Low Country.
home home should be green and sand.
I want to rebuild green. I don’t know where to start. Between the insurance company who’s been great and the building company they’ve put in me in touch with, I’m in unknown territory. My house burned down October 1st, at least most of it, all but the basement apartment. Suggestions? Others might be interested in this as well. If I need to rebuild, why not do it right? nobaryma@yahoo.com
Any rich and earthy tone would be nice with white trim.
OR
Any Pastel color with dark or warm wood tones on the trim.
Green is my favorite color, and green living is what it’s all about! I am so excited about this contest, I wish everyone the best of luck. Happy Holidays Everyone!
Soooooo…..How’s it goin? Really getting anxious to see the outcome of the green home.
Any little hint would be fun….can’t wait
Can’t wait to hear something soon!
I would pick a wonderful rust color for the exterior. Pale yellow for the hall.
HGTV is now HBTV to give away a dream home in Harlem. Someone in their programming department overdosed on diversity training and chased everyone off to FineLiving!!
HGTV, If you don’t mind me saying so, I am thinking you’re trying to “up the suspense” over the Green Home. I am dearly wanting to see it!!
By the way, I have an excellent idea for your next Green Home (provided you ever get the first one finished! LOL)
i like the colors that the . baby blues and light sun- shine yellow. and i love to be in a all energy saving home.betty rutledge hempridge rd. shelbyville ky.
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I like a light sage green for an exterior color with an off white trim. Some stone work would look nice also. Inside muted earth tones along with a bold interjection of color now and then. Can’t wait to enter-I absoulutely would love to own a green home.
So, will we be able to have a 3D tour soon of the Green Home, and is it being given away in January?
What color will it be?
Living green, pale or dark, has been the plea for years from environmentalists and other pro-earth personas since I can remember. Now I’m 40. I’m seeing, in recent years, a surge of peoples realizing just how urgent it is that we are more aware of how we treat our home. HGTV is always a leader in living well, from great design (Candace Olsen is simply DIVINE!) to Green design (Ed Begley is a bright Greenie!) I’m inspired and would be honored (and heard) to live in the first Green home giveaway. I’m always excited about the Dream home giveaway, but this would be a wondrous gift to have. I’ve never had my own home, and the thought of it is both overwhelming happifying and taunting. All of the color options were beautiful, but I would think green would be poetically suitable – Olive green looks so earthy, blending in with the country backdrop. Enough of this novel. I’ll keep dreaming and watching HGTV!
Peace
The Green Dream Home should be painted a pale green, with a white or dark green trim.
I like the color sage with brick or stone mixed and maybe a deep red trim of sorts……Goes with the green theme…..
Thanks for keeping us posted and allowing us some input………….. Stay positive!
Sage Green should be the the color Because there are more variations of sage green than any other green in real life. Then using a light tan with small hints of dark brown for the trim would outstanding. Candace Olsen would just be the best for the interior design. I’m hoping the inside will be done to work with the ocean.
Im the father of five children 12,12,12,17,and 20 and my wife an kitten we want the next dream home to be in iowa because its so beautiful and peaceful,iowa has great lakes hills natrual beaty and more it would be perfect and would be a pleasent change from all the serious places we hope you agree my children say thank you goodbye!
i think green is appropriate. considering its the theme for the home. and also green is my favorite color. nothing like green to feel calming effect like the grass and trees , foliage etc. thanks for considering my choice. pale green dark green any green is fine with me. stephanie
I think Salmon is appropriate not pink but Salmon color with green trimmings.
I chose the pale green; it has a understated elegance to it. To me the Olive and yellow are both to bold of colors for the South Carolina coast.
What a progressive concept to get “green-housing” on its way to saving our planet. Way to set the bar for the rest of the world’s residential developers and contractors. I certainly would pack my life and move there in an instant, if I were to be priveledged enough to win it!
I think the color should be natural wood, or an earth tone stain. Obviously something that could withstand the environment of the island, but not a paint. The dream green home should innately fit into it’s surroundings, and not stick out more than the natural beauty of the components that are used to build it…… just a thought
blue and green off course …bring the out doors in with the colors
I vote for green for the color of the green home. Nothing else would be as appropriate. A nice forest green with an off white trim. or maybe a strong irish green with a complementing trim. I just believe that it is best to advertise the homes commitment to being eco-friendly on it’s surface. Green home from the outside in.
Considering the location, I think a dark, wet looking sand color would be perfect with a dark woodsy trim and tinted sky lights to match the natural environment with lots of green/low maintenance plants keeping with the green theme.
I think yellow would be a good shade. Yellow comes from the warmth of the sun along with cotton white trim. I would like to see natural rock or stone added to the green home. I think that these shades feel peaceful and look clean. Looking forward to finally seeing it!
okay, so i’ve got to chime in and suggest brown.
I would like a yellow shade for the geen home along with a crisp white trim. Yellow has the warmth of the sun. It makes a cozy and warm welcome feeling. I am looking forward to seeing the green home progress.
I CHOSE ALL GREEN AND YELLOW.I THINK THE LIGHTER COLOR GREEN WOULD MAKE IT FEEL MORE WARM.IT NICE THAT YOU HAVE ASK US TO HELP PICK THE COLORS BUT I THINK IT SHOULD BE YOU.HGTV HAS ALWAYS PUT TO GETHER A BEAUTIFUL DESIGNS.YOU ARE #1 IN MY BOOK.
If I knew what material was being used on the outside of the home, it would be easier to choose the color. If the house is to be maintenance free, I believe the colors will be limited. Personally, maintenance free is more ideal than a home that has to be painted every two or three years. I do have two choices though: light (sage) green w/ dark (moss) green shutters or dove grey (not something that looks baby blue) w/ navy shutters.
Seems as though every dream home in the past has had a blue scheme on the inside. Are the designers afraid of brown, moss green, gold and etc.? Just because a house is near water doesn’t mean everything on the inside has to be blue.
There is no other color it must be green in order to fit the theme!!!
There is a very soft beautiful parakeet green Sherman Williams paint that was used in the HGTV dh 2008 that might be a perfect match!!
I admire HGTV so very much and am quite impressed that they were able to build and giveaway not one but 2 homes this year beyond generous!! this is what sets HGTV apart from any other station out there!!solar innovation is the wave of the future and HGTV is wise to be at the top of their game!!
I just can’t say enough about HGTV they really listen to their viewers and this I am sure is how the green home was able to come about into fruition!!
I believe the house should be sunshine yellow
with white trim and green shutters. The yellow reflects the idea of using the sun for electricity.
the primary color should be andy’s ment green trimed in white.
My favorite color is a pale yellow, so a pale yellow and some green accents. Throw some white in also I live in Lexington SC. It would be nice to live near the beach. Lots of room for my children to come and visit. Plus all my friends. I do not have much room now.
So happy to finally see a green home. Maybe this will spark the trend for more builders and people to go green in their own homes. we have only one chance to preserve our earth and now is the time. color choices should be something natural. cant wait to see final outcome.
Thank you home and garden network!!
Instantly, I think of earth tones like greens and then traditional white and black would be outstanding.
I’m starting to dream now. It would be nice if my daughter and I won the home. My daughter and I have been through alot. May 14 my long term boyfriend died from a head injury, September 25th to just recently losing our home and all our blongings do to a fire, to fighting with the insurance company to pay, etc.. So can’t wait to get a chance to win. I think as the other writer it should be a natural wood. I’m looking forward to learn more about this home. Thanks
To all have a Happy New Year!!!
I am so excited that the first green home will be built in SC. I am a native south carolinian from the low country.I grow up in a small town about 45mins. form Hilton Head. I think a good color would be a kinda a moss green(maybe oakmoss by Sherwin-Williams)with white trim, and black shutters and doors. Or maybe the door could be a shade of red(maybe fireweed by Sherwin-Williams)
Use transparent paint instead of opaque to add a refective quality. Colors from nature’s palette will give the home life. Special attention to both warm and cool color placement will guarantee a sense of balance. Top off with nontoxic paint to make a complete ecofriendly retreat!
Cynthia H.W.
How about a nice crisp yellow with white and a dark green trim? Yep, I could live with that!!!
I am so proud of all of you at HGTV. Not only for all the hard work you do, but for the precedent you are setting with this wonderful Green Home build. I look forward to getting new and exciting ideas from future shows in 2008. You bet I’m entering the contest as well. I adore the Carolina’s. Happy New Year to you all and please continue to change people’s lives.