What am I trying to do? Selecting fill areas?

Hello all,
I am at a roadblock searching for the proper terms to find tutorials for what I am seeking to learn
We own a construction company and I want the ability to do show the customer different colors of paint on their base, trim, gables doors and so on from a photo.Example: I want the ability to select the gable with polygonal tool(since most everything is straight lines) then hit shift and select the door and make this its own group.then move on to selecting all the trim, then the base color. Then if the customer does not like color selection I could easily just fill the "group(gable/door)" when i want.
What is the proper why to achieve this?
I have some ps skills...I just dont even know what to look for, for tutorials or youtubes. Thanks!

Start with a typical property JPG.
Open a layer above the JPG and fill with White
Add a Hue Saturation layer, and copy it as many times as you have different colours.
Select the Hue/Saturation layers and Group them.
Now you have the tricky job of matching each H/S layer to a colour. Turn off all the H/S layer except for one and check Colorize. (It would be easier if you have a Swatch Layer. Maybe scan the swatch and add it as a layer, and Free Transform so it fits in the corner of your image, and you can use it as a reference. )
Do this for each of the H/S layers, naming them accordingly, and turning on only the one you are working on.
You now have a group with all the colour options, so make a few copies of the group. (I don't suppose you use more than two or three different colours on the same property.)
Your layers panel will look something like this:
OK, so turn off the White layer. All of your groups should also be turned off. Use the Lasso tool together with Alt (Opt) to select an area, and with the selection place, add a layer mask to the first group. Twirl open a group, and turn on a colour, and the Swatch layer so you can adjust for lighting etc.
If you want to add to the layer mask, just make another selection and fill with white. I am sure you'll manage from there.
Save this document and use it as a master. Perhaps make it Read Only so you can't over write it. Now you have a template for all your jobs. It will be no problem Selecting All the groups, and using Free Transform to make them fit other property JPGs because there are no pixels.
Good luck.

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