Browse Forums Renovation + Home Improvement 1 Jan 30, 2021 9:35 am Hi everyone, first time poster here. I'm doing some minor renovations on my 1970s el cheapo brick veneer, on a very tight budget, with the intention of selling in a few years. My budget means I can't render, and am stuck with the existing roofing. I have chocolate brown bricks, a dark chocolate concrete tile roof, white guttering/fascia/eaves, and beige external roller shutters. I'm getting a verandah and carport installed in the next week or two and need to choose colours for the posts and beams (timber construction) and a colour for the Colorbond roof. Here's my thoughts: *I feel like the existing colour scheme looks really tired. The whole house is tired, to be honest. *I love quite a few colours in the contemporary Colorbond range but I'm not sure what will complement the existing colour scheme. *Am I condemned to choosing white posts and 'Classic Cream' for the Colorbond roof? Is that the only sensible choice here? If so, I suppose I could live with it on the basis that I'm planning to sell, but it wouldn't be ideal. *I could possibly paint the fascia and guttering myself, if that would help the house to tie in with any new colour selections for the new verandah and posts. The house eaves will need to stay white as they contain asbestos and I don't want to touch them. I've uploaded a few photos showing the bricks and roller shutters in different lights - the shutters definitely look more yellow in the sun. Also please note that the house is currently missing guttering and fascia boards where the verandah and carport is going to be. It looks even worse than it usually does I'm sure I'm not the only person to have faced this dilemma. Does anyone have suggestions? Please and thank you Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: What goes with chocolate brown and beige? 2Feb 08, 2021 4:50 pm Hi Kate, I feel your confusion, as that confronted us years ago - and we just bit the bullet and rendered the whole thing. Ours was a 17 x 12 house, and that really lifted it from looking very dowdy and dated, to looking reasonably clean and modern(ish). Render includes a tint usually, so from memory ours started as a cream colour, which looked far better than mottled bricks. It also adds another layer of insulation barrier to the walls, so if you can stretch to that - its good bang for the buck. From a heat perspective, if you are going for just painting the trim, I would go the safe route and pick a colour to match your colorbond roof selection and stick to it. Something like surf mist is a nice accent colour, and has great reflective properties for reducing convection, though its really an individual choice. Cheers, MrC I recently went through a similar renovation and move scenario when updating our family home. We also swapped some rooms around and tackled a major… 2 10209 The HIA contract, in the term & conditions section states that "Commencment" is deemed when the drainage is started or the piers are dug or the slab is formed up (incase… 2 6220 Hi there, We've just build a new hardwood (Greybox) deck and am wondering whether firepit protective mats/surfaces are sufficient? I'm not sure that they're heat… 0 2118 |