Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Nov 14, 2011 8:51 pm Hi, I would like to get some advice/tips on choosing our garage door colour and external wall colours. We currently have a shale grey roof and Surfmist windows. I'm worried that because the shale grey throws a slightly grey shade while the window aluminium (surfmist) throws a slightly cream shade that I may have snooked myself when it comes to the roller door. Do I match the roof with a shale grey door or match the windows with a surfmist door or door I go darker with another colourbond colour like woodland grey which matches nothing on the house? Part of the shale grey fascia will be approx 600mm from the garage door while a surfmist window is approx 600 mm from the door as well. My walls are cladded in Scyon Stria and the upper walls are Scyon matrix. If any one has the same or similar colour scheme too I would love to see some pics. Re: Garage Door Colours 2Nov 14, 2011 9:30 pm Do you have a sketch of your elevation? Dan on here is great and could help with giving you some ideas, but healways likes a facade picture. As for me, I am still struggling with my own colours, so would be of no use to someone else Re: Garage Door Colours 3Nov 14, 2011 10:19 pm Hi There We have similar colours on our facade - we used Surfmist for our gutters/fascia and downpipes, our front doors, our porch feature projection and our garage door. We used Shale Grey for timber posts and also our windows are Anodic Grey which looks exactly like Shale Grey. I can post a photo for you tomorrow so you can see the colours. I'm not sure what colour you will paint your walls - we used a grey sort of brick - so I don't think our Surfmist looks creamy I think the other colours (like the greys and blacks) that we used makes it appear more white - painting your walls a cool shade of grey rather than a warm shade will prevent the white throwing a cream tinge. I'll take a fresh pic tomoz and post for you! EDIT: re-read your post to see no bricks Sleven Moved into our Atlantique MkII 36 by Carlisle Homes Re: Garage Door Colours 4Nov 15, 2011 6:22 am Thanks for that. Yeah a pic would be great to see. Ill try and post a pic of our place to see the facade. Is there any trick to uploading pics because I click Img in editor but it only adds to to my post Regards Dave Re: Garage Door Colours 5Nov 15, 2011 12:50 pm Try this link for hosting a pic if the forum doesn't allow uploading images. http://www.postimage.org/ Re: Garage Door Colours 7Nov 15, 2011 7:23 pm Here's a couple of rough images I took on dusk this afternoon. http://s6.postimage.org/f1ubhj4rl/IMG_8809.jpg http://s6.postimage.org/539cv1vc1/IMG_8810.jpg Re: Garage Door Colours 10Nov 16, 2011 5:36 pm Front door is surfmist aluminium frame and glass. I have been holding off on the walls because I have no idea. The portico area is bagged and painted piers with a timber deck and face board. I haven't decided on the stairs yet. The garage is a double with a 5.4m opening. My intial thought was to go with a darker door and the half strength on the walls. So that would give me Shale Grey Roof and Fascia, Surfmist Windows, Woodland Grey Garage Door and Front Piers/Columns and Half Strength Woodland Grey on the walls. But looking at new homes generally the garage either ties in with the roof or windows or front door. Which brings me back to Shale Grey or Surfmist.... Re: Garage Door Colours 11Nov 17, 2011 6:40 pm Sorry for the delay mate. See photo below - taken on iPhone so let me know if not clear enough I can email through some decent quality You will see - Surfmist - Garage door, Front doors, fascia, gutter, downpipes, flashing, cedar cladding and the white on the porch is all Surfmist. Shale Grey are the posts and windows (windows are not exactly shale grey but nearly exact match) We used Monument as the black feature on the porch. Let me know if I can be of more help! Your facade looks tops - I think Woodland Grey would be adding too many colours - I always try to stick to 3 colours Edit: Spelling http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz256/ecidnac84/Home/photo.jpg Sleven Moved into our Atlantique MkII 36 by Carlisle Homes Dover white or surfmist garage door. I am having trouble choosing a garage door. The outside of house will be tranquel retreat. I want it to all blend nicely however I… 0 4883 Hi, have purchased a house with 2 single garage doors. The Centre pillar one side sits proud to the other. Can I change 2 doors into one. Please see picture. 0 2420 My garage door has started playing up recently. Sometimes (and getting more frequent) when I press the button to open it, it wont. The motor is an ATA GD0-6V3. Red and… 0 678 |