Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Mar 14, 2011 8:40 pm Soooo...... Can anybody help us please??!! We are building the dream home this year, floor plans, are all finalised and we are really excited! Now we have to get the hardest part done, choose the external colours for the house! This is driving hubby and I bonkers! We are building a long house, 34m long, with verandahs all along the front and the back, and the back also incorporates an undercover alfresco area. We have chosen a sort of hamptons look for the interior, and while I am still trying to convince my husband that we need colonial bars in the external widows and doors, I have managed to get highlight windows over the doors and windows that open up to the alfresco. So the look that I thought that we both were after is weatherboard, or linea board, whatever they use these days, with white timberwork around the windows etc, and white handrails around the decking. I am also still working on convincing him that we need the have weathered looking decking, you know, no stain or anything, but the jury is still out! Anyway, here we come unstuck! Our block has a slope, so there is a garage built under one end of the house. Now I imagined that we would do this level in second hand red bricks or something, and then have the upper part of the house all in weatherboards. With plans going off to the engineer in the morning hubby has admitted that he really isnt convinced that this is the right look and he wants the whole house out of brick. I just cant imagine that this will look any good at all, and we both really agree that what we really care about more than anything, is what the outside ends up looking like, rather than focusing on what material it is made of. So we are considering a combination of render, weather boards, bricks.... my brain cant cope! I picture that the bottom part of the house, the underneath garage, needs to be in a different material than the actual house on the top so that it breaks up the look of the height... Can anybody help us come up with a look for our house! Thanks, Sue. Re: PLEASE HELP!!! Need help to choose external colours 3Apr 06, 2011 2:39 pm if its hamptons style you should go with antique white USA or slate colours checkout [link removed] in their interior gallery for colour ideas.... Make your own Organic Vegetable Patch, Learn How to Build a Pergola http://www.homestyledesign.com.au The Dulux colour consultants are awesome. If you show them the photos they should be able to figure it out for you straight away 1 1608 Thank you @. Tried to play with the facade models but the exact colour is not matching up. 2 3230 Thanks Pulse, thats really helpful and very much appreciated. Also thanks for the pointer on sheathing, thats me watching too many american youtube videos! 6 2776 |