Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Feb 29, 2012 10:02 pm Well my husband and I just cannot agree!! I like brown tones for the facade for our new house and my husband likes greys. I'm not completely against greys for the exterior but haven't seen anything I love. We are building a Simonds Oxford (Double Story) with Kyoto facade - any recommendations or photos would be awesome! We will be using Austral bricks and getting a colorbond roof. Any help greatly appreciated. Re: Facade Colour help, please! 2Mar 01, 2012 7:51 am We chose grey tones rather than browns but I do love both I personally just find greys a little more modern, but browns are quite homely and inviting. This is our place... (sorry no non scaffolding photos yet) Just to the left you can see a peek of our neighbours who are brown toned. www.tinas-cakery.com Building a Monte Carlo with Fowler Homes. Our Build Thread --> https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=49218 Re: Facade Colour help, please! 4Mar 01, 2012 9:21 pm hi, this is my Simonds Amberlea with the Kyoto facade, the cladding not yet painted. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ however our bricks are Blackwood now with white mortar and our garage door is jasper Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Also, on my blog I have a videos and photos of my kitchen if you wanted some ideas http://www.dscml.com/2012/01/it-looks-lot-like-home.html hubby, kids and me all waiting for the Amberlea Site Cut 27 September 2011 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=46637 http://www.dscml.com/ Re: Facade Colour help, please! 5Mar 03, 2012 8:28 pm Thanks all I love your ideas and help. I also love reading your blog. The work you have put in is amazing and I couldn't stop reading once I started - it was a late night!!! So we went to Simonds today and the only bricks in Group 1 are: Homestead - Buff, Red, Redgum Access - Ruby, Cream The next jump to Group 1A is $2500 (Fawn and Chestnut) and then another $500 (so $3000) on top of that for the next group (Ash, Blackwood). I am trying so hard to stick to budget and therefore trying hard to choose a 'standard' brick. Not easy!! These are obviously the least popular bricks. I am thinking out group one the Homestead Buff???? Has anybody built with this colour. Not sure about the pillars, maybe leave them the same and add render or stack stone down the track. I guess the darkest out of the above standard is Access Ruby?? With the buff bricks we were thinking a darkish colourbond roof / gutters/ slightly lighter fascia and downpipes and the Dowell Grey for window frames. Any suggestions?? Re: Facade Colour help, please! 6Mar 03, 2012 10:48 pm Don't know about those colours but this is what we did, the 2 columns in the front, because they are a different type of brick they charged us $120 and that was is for all of that brick work, at first I wasn't sure about it, but I can always render it in future, stack stone was crazy expensive, but the lighter column bricks have grown on me. With colourbond and roof tiles the lighter it is the cooler the house will be, we chose a light colour grey/brown for this reason. http://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=51770 I have put this link on as it reminded me on how I felt when I saw the house coming together http://thehousewebuilt2010.blogspot.com.au/ I think these colours go very well together. HOpe this helps. Will you be starting a blog so us Simonds people can follow it? hubby, kids and me all waiting for the Amberlea Site Cut 27 September 2011 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=46637 http://www.dscml.com/ Re: Facade Colour help, please! 7Mar 04, 2012 6:23 am Hi sands, We were on a budget too and I was so disappointed withthe standard range of bricks we had to choose from. so we opted to spend our upgrade budget on the bricks and went standard inside instead. We can always dress up the interior later. We have boral mist and domino bricks, which is a browny grey combo! It's kept hubby happy Goodluck with ur decision. Thank you @. Tried to play with the facade models but the exact colour is not matching up. 2 3259 Thankyou so much 😀 I've decided on White on white for doors and trims, White on white 50% on ceiling and Mt buller for walls. Fingers crossed it will look OK 😀 2 7158 Dear Members I have to decide the Facade column size. My custom builder standard is 350mm with rendering, but i asked for 470mm plus stone or tiles and yet to get… 0 7496 |