Help External Colour Ideas?

The "MyColour" pages on the Dulux website might give some guidance.

Thanks Amber for the pat on my back!!!! Hows things progressing with your home?


Nat, to be honest….. I’m am over the blue colorbond roofing, it’s been done to death!!

For me to give you a FULL colour selection I would need to see an elevation of your plans.
Or a photo of a home already built in the plan you are building.
Are the verandas bullnoise?

So heres my colour suggestions off the top of my head.

1) Roofing, Facias and Gutters – Colorbond “Dune” (Lighter colours fade slower!)

2) Eaves - Dulux “Light Glaze”

3) Walls - Dulux “Light Glaze”

4) Windows - “Dune”

5) Front Door - solid timber – stained to match garage door.

6) Garage Doors – Timber Look – Smooth, not a lot of pattern.
Is the door double?

7) Deep red ceramic pots along the front of the veranda with lush green plants.

This is a monochromatic colour scheme, very classy….and will not out date! Which is the most important thing. You can check on the wall colour at any paint store, get a sample of the colorbond Dune and take with you when you look at the paint colour.
Better still a sample pot is only $6 or $7 and worth the expense to get it right.

You are then complementing the monochromatic colours with the flash of red in the ceramic pots. It will look good.

If I could see the elevations I could possibly give you a second colour (feature colour) for the externals but not knowing the design of the home it’s a bit hard.

Good luck, if you have any more questions feel free to ask away.

Nat…that’s a really nice home!!!

The colours will work well. One colour only, you don’t need the feature colour.

Good luck and my pleasure, stay open to my colours while you’re looking at them tomorrow. Try to visualise the look.

Hi Michelle

I just wanted to say THANKS SO MUCH for the colour advice. I got a paint sample & colorbond sample today and I'm so happy with them. At first I though ohhh perhaps a little bit too similar but I think it will look great with the timber look door garage & front door!

I was hoping to continue the same sort of colour theme in the interior as well so it all flows with perhaps some feature walls etc. to add some other colour.

Would you suggest using the Light Glaze inside as well as the main colour or should I look for something of a similar tone but in a lighter shade?

Thanks Again
Nat

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Jason.

Nat,

The lightest colour of this range is -:

Dulux “Eggshell” P10.B1 this is one step up from the “Light Glaze”

This will give you the internal and externals the one colour intensity.
Just different shades of.

Good flow colour for feature walls as well.

Thanks Michelle! Its off to Dulux I go (again!)....

Nat

Hi Nat,

I had a good xmas and like you have not stopped eating, clothes are getting tight….
30 people, way to go, I struggled with the 10 I had!!!

Ok… windows I would suggest looking at the Grey, see what you think, the other colours are too obvious.

I looked at the photo of your house again, it has the blue. I also think there is blue on the small portions of wall at the front windows.
At least that what it looks like in the photo, so it’s a balanced colour scheme. You can’t just throw a colour somewhere, for the hell of it and think it will work, if it’s the ONLY different colour.

Remember, you have a timber look double garage door, go back to the link and look again at your homes photo….. Do you see much wall space to work with?
NO!!!! Its all windows and garage door. So what little wall space and barge area your have you will need to use to work your colour scheme. Don’t be scared, I know you may think its looking bland, but you will be surprised.

Sorry….am I making sense?? Maybe too much xmas cheer….?

Heres a good tip for everyone. Get a spare elevation (Plan) of your home, some GOOD colouring in pencils, and colour render the elevation with pencils as close to the paint colour as possible.

Better still; use the colour pot samples of paint and do a paint job on the elevations.
That way you will really know what your home will look like.

Hope you have a great New Year!!! Then maybe we can throw out the left overs!!! YAYYYYY…

Hi,

We;re building with Eden Brae in Sydney. THey share a number of the designs with Porter Davis. We're looking at a single storey home with a Hotham facade like the Hayman 34 on Porter Davis' website (www.porterdavis.com.au). We're having eaves though.

We're looking at rendering some of the front facade and also using some bricks like the picture on the website but we;re trying to avoid timber windows on the front facade for maintenance reasons. Can anyone suggest aluminium colours for the windows and also fascia ond roof tile colours (no colorbond for us)?

If not, does anyone know of reputable colour consultants in Sydney that (a) don't charge an arm and a leg and (b) are willing to do small residential work?

Thanks,
Jamie & Katherine

Thanks Michelle.

Apparently we will have a session with an independent colour consultant as part of our deal. So much so, if we don't show after we book in a time, we'll get charged the consulting fees. However, that doesn't mean the consultant is necessarily any good. THey just might be the lowest bidder for the builder. We'll go to the appointment and if not completely happy, we'll be looking elsewhere.

Just a quick note about your suggestions. For the part of the facade that is rendered the neutral colour, should we go for the sand or paperbark aluminium on that section as well? FYI, I'll be putting off-white timber plantation **** on the front windows.

Cheers,
Jamie & Katherine