Long time lurker here. Hubby and I are doing up our 1980s brick home. Don't you looove the orange bricks.

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We have so far done the roof in colorbond ironstone and rendered the outside and added a rendered fence. The fence will be having black slats and they are already in production so can't change the colour of those. Excuse the silly mockup of the fence.
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We have concreted the front section in, as we will be adding a double carport for that front section. I have tried to put in the pic where that will go just to give a general idea. We haven't picked gutter colours for the carport yet as we are totally stumped on what colours to do the house.
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So for the render colour, I have been really set on dark greys. There are a couple of houses on our street that have light greys and our neighbour (who you can see in the pic) has gone with light brown. I originally wanted to go with Dulux Stepney Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ but after painting it on a section of the house it feels too light, and kinda just gets lost with the roof colour even though it looks nothing like it on the sample. So I wanted to go a bit darker and was thinking Dulux teahouse or Dulux malay grey. Am I totally crazy in wanting to go dark greys when everyone else seems to pick light greys?
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Husband doesn't care about the house as long as the gutters are black. He is wanting to do Colorbond Monument so that it ties the black slats in with the house. The carport will have a white roof and posts, so I was wanting to do the fascia a white colour to tie those colours in as well. Arghh, I'm just so confused how to make everything work together.

Sorry about the HUGE post, I'm just really stumped and need these colours sorted by the end of the week so the carport people can start production on that. So to sum it up:
House render: Dulux teahouse/malay grey?
Fence: Same or perhaps a lighter shade of grey?
Gutters: Colorbond Monument
Fascia: White??
Windows: Same - aluminium
Front door - is white at the moment but that can change.
This is just a general idea with those colours. I realise it looks nothing like our house though.
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Please help me

Riss