Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Sep 12, 2011 7:40 pm Hi everyone, I’m excited & glad I’ve found this forum, so much reading to be done. Here I go with my first post Building a new home & have decided to use the Austral symmetry Asphalt brick, face of house will have render, cladding & bricks ( as per attached photo) & the rest all brick. [img][img=http://s3.postimage.org/2djmhejb8/Brick_Render.jpg][/img] I’m really confused with the colours selections; I’m very bad when it comes to colours (maybe it’s try that I’m colour blind). Can anyone suggest what colours suite the selected bricks & if a light colourbond roof (shale grey) will match the bricks? The windows will be aluminium frame, precious silver Perl powder coated. Much appreciated for any suggestions. Regards George Re: Help witColour selection with Austral symmetry Asphalt b 2Sep 12, 2011 8:14 pm Hi George and Welcome to the forum, We are also using Austral symmetry asphalt, but have monument gutters/fascia and windows and a charcoal roof for contrast, with Dune garage and cladding. I think the shale grey roof would look fine, although you will need to add some contrast in either the gutters/fascia or render/cladding. There is a house near us that has a woodland grey roof and the same windows as you, woodland grey gutters and a light beige colour render, it looks good and very different to ours (although ours hasn't started yet ) I'm sure everyone will have different ideas, have Austral given you the address of homes in your area that have used the brick, that helped us a lot. Re: Help witColour selection with Austral symmetry Asphalt b 3Sep 13, 2011 3:57 pm Hi gogo, Thanks for your reply, great to hear that you have selected the same brick. Your colour selection is looking great, I think it will come looking nice when completed. I will get on the phone with Austral & find out if any address for a house with the chosen bricks. Thanks for suggestion. My driveway has to be mid to dark grey, so I wonder if the shale grey roof will go with my driveway. Cheers George Re: Help witColour selection with Austral symmetry Asphalt b 4Sep 13, 2011 4:10 pm triton07 Hi gogo, Thanks for your reply, great to hear that you have selected the same brick. Your colour selection is looking great, I think it will come looking nice when completed. I will get on the phone with Austral & find out if any address for a house with the chosen bricks. Thanks for suggestion. My driveway has to be mid to dark grey, so I wonder if the shale grey roof will go with my driveway. Cheers George Our colour consultant told us to match our driveway colour to our roof, what about woodland grey?? Re: Help witColour selection with Austral symmetry Asphalt b 5Sep 13, 2011 4:25 pm Good point kd, we are having a dark grey exposed agg driveway, which will match our charcoal roof.. The woodland grey roof looks great on the house near us, where abouts are you located George, I could pm you the address if you are near me (ie Sydney-Kellyville!) Re: Help witColour selection with Austral symmetry Asphalt b 6Sep 14, 2011 8:21 am @kd ; We did have the woodland grey as our choice & we do like the colour, but I'm more for a lighter roof to reduce the summer heat & energy use. But again we might change our mind's up and go for the looks rather than energy savings, don't know at this stage. @gogo; Maybe I should have a look at the house with woodland grey, I'm at Menai but no big hasle for me to drive to Kellyville. That would be great if you could PM the address. It's so confusing when there are so many colour choices out there. Cheers Hi there, we have classic cream gutters, fascia’s, roller door and undercover carport. We are are going to paint the roof a terracotta orange colour. After some… 0 1174 Hi Kaiser85, We are building with Firstyle Homes. Our build has just started, slab pour is on Saturday (hopefully!). Their standard range is pretty good. We did our… 1 4956 id suggest getting an engineer to give you an opinion rather than a builder. 1 11909 |