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Building a new house, we have chosen our bricks as below, but are having trouble trying to work out the rest of the colours. Would love some suggestions for the roof, garage and particularly the render. See house plan:



And bricks:



Thank you!
I really love your brick choice & facade!
Honestly, I wish that I had spent more time thinking about my own external selections - they were very last minute, rushed decisions


If it were me I would be looking at using a light-coloured render color because I'm a HUGE fan of contrast, maybe something like surfmist? For the roof, probably monument, which I would also match to the roller door (although you could match the render if you're worried about it being too dark).

I did a little mockup for you, nothing too fancy but you get the idea. In my opinion surfmist appears a little less cream in person, so would recommend getting paint samples! I feel like it matches light/white brick mortar nicely

For your windows, either black or monument may look nice! And then a dark timber front door (merbau maybe)?



Anyway... those are my thoughts!
I saw this colour brick recently, matched with jarrah and it looked lovely. So perhaps jarrah garage door and jarrah door? I’d probably match the render to the mortar colour in your bricks.
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