Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Apr 24, 2012 2:17 pm HI i am new to this so here we go we are building a new house and are deciding on external colors? the facts are Wide home on 1 acre western Sydney so far we are thinking the following Windspray colourbond roof windspray gutter shale grey fascia light grey render with a feature purple on the portico so we are undecided on gutter should we go for shale Grey instead of windspray window colour garage door colour any info or pics would be appreciated as we need our colours sorted for councile. i am not to sure how to post a elevation of our hosue concept on here but can email to someone? the stress has started Lol Thanks Re: Help! New house colours?? 2Apr 25, 2012 9:48 pm Hi, someone on this forum kindly helped me to post so I'm passing on the favour! . It's actually quite easy. You just need to register with an external site like Imageshack or Photobucket, and load the scanned plans to the site from your computer. Once they are on there you will find they give you a code for posting to forums/websites etc. Then just copy and paste into your message. Choose the IMG not the URL one.
Have you looked at the colourbond online visualiser? It can be quite a good tool to help with selections. http://colorbond.autech.com.au/onlinevi ... esidential As I'm not sure what window and garage door colours are available in Sydney, I can't comment. But I'm sure you will get some great suggestions from others though! Re: Help! New house colours?? 3Apr 26, 2012 8:53 am I too would really like to go with a light roof for the purpose of cooling, but I couldn't see it working with a façade design I liked. In the case of roofs, it tends to be more style than function that's the basis for choosing. Building a Delta 21 at Craigieburn - http://homeofzero.blogspot.com.au/ Deposit: 26/02. Contract: 22/05. Settlement: 29/05. Site start: 18/10. Re: Help! New house colours?? 4Apr 27, 2012 10:38 am akashra I too would really like to go with a light roof for the purpose of cooling, but I couldn't see it working with a façade design I liked. In the case of roofs, it tends to be more style than function that's the basis for choosing. I'm trying for as many passive solar features as I can, therefore a light roof is a MUST. IMO a light roof suits a lot of styles. And all the houha from our govt on reducing carbon footprint is just revenue raising unless they create incentive schemes that encourage and reward more builders for building environmentally responsible designs which are affordable for the average Aussie family/first homebuyer. *"gets off soapbox"* Re: Help! New house colours?? 6Apr 28, 2012 12:01 am Noice! I like the feature brick a lot. Good with the timber door. It all works well! Yes well there solution is to blame everyone else while I a 65yr old woman with major medical problems have to just continue to boil water and wash myself in a bucket… 2 15998 If you make sure all taps inside and out are turned off, what does the water meter show if you leave it for a while. 2 20229 13 6602 |