House Coloring Pages

• Simple houses: a door, two windows, a roof and a chimney. The first house most of us learn to draw.
• Cottages: small, with a steep roof, flower boxes and a garden path.
• Farmhouses: two stories, a covered porch and a barn nearby.
• Townhouses: narrow homes that share side walls with the neighbors, lined up along a street.
• Log cabins: walls of stacked logs with notched corners, and a stone chimney.
• Treehouses: a platform in the branches with a rope ladder.
• Victorian houses: towers, bay windows and lacy wooden trim, often painted in three or four colors.
• Cutaway houses: the front wall removed so you can see the rooms and the furniture.

Knowing the names of the parts makes a house easier to color, and easier to talk about when you're done.

• Gable: the triangle of wall under a sloped roof.
• Dormer: a small window that sticks up out of the roof with a little roof of its own.
• Eaves: the edges of the roof that hang past the walls and keep rain off them.
• Shutters: the panels on each side of a window.
• Porch: a covered area at the front door.

A few choices make the page look finished. Keep the roof darker than the walls so the house feels solid. Pick one accent color and use it on the front door and the shutters. Color the windows pale blue for daytime, or warm yellow if you want the lights on at dusk. Shingles, bricks and siding look best when you vary the pressure a little, so no two rows are exactly the same. Then give the house somewhere to stand: a strip of grass, a path to the door and a tree on one side.