The Spanish Colonial Revival Home
Essential Style Elements
Spanish Colonial Revival homes typically feature light-colored stucco exterior walls and chimney finishes, with low-pitched red Mission or Spanish tile roofs with little or no overhanging eaves. They include asymmetrical massing and facades with one or more arched entrance doors or principal windows, and wrought iron grillwork for windows, doors and balconies.
Quintessential Windows
Quintessential Doors
Colors & Finishes
When the Spanish Colonial Revival style first became popular in the Southwest and Florida, dark brown was the most common color for this style's windows. In other areas of the country, a variety of other colors were also used, and are now common throughout all parts of the country.
The window frame, sash and trim is usually one color and is intended to contrast with the very light color of the adjacent exterior stucco or interior plaster.
Exterior Color Palette
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Cocoa Bean -
Colony White -
Flagstone -
Mallard Green -
Sage -
Country Blue -
Cinnamon Toast
Interior Wood Species
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Oak -
Pine -
Mixed Grain Douglas Fir -
Vertical Grain Douglas Fir
Interior Stain Colors
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Espresso -
Mocha -
Cinnamon -
Russet
Hardware Styles
French Casement Window Hardware
Newbury® Door Hardware
Hardware Finishes
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Black -
Oil Rubbed Bronze
Grille Patterns
Most French casement window sash are narrow and use grilles that create horizontal panes that extend the full width of the sash. Occasionally, however, fewer grilles are used to create pane shapes that are more square and less horizontal.
If the sash is wide, vertical grilles are sometimes added to the horizontal grilles to create two columns of panes in the sash. In these cases, the grilles usually create panes with a vertical orientation.
