Browse Forums Windows & Doors Re: Window Colours - Help 26Apr 04, 2009 4:08 pm My pick would be silver. Since our supplier is A&L, we will go with Metro Silver. Just wondering, I will using Austral nougat for my bricks. Would silver window frames go well with nougat bricks? Hope to hear opinions from people here. Haywgl - I know u choose white birch for your window and it looks great! The reason we are leaning towards silver is because we want our garage colour to be colorbond shale grey, not surfmist. Happy to discuss. Stephen Williams Landing Stage 10 - Kingwell Neighbourhood Re: Window Colours - Help 27Apr 04, 2009 10:20 pm FND - I think silver would go with Nougat beautifully. I picked beige as our windows are paperbark, BUT I wish I had've picked white and would do so next time, but it's not there. But next time I would pick silver over beige if the only 3 colours I had to pick were the ones you've got in the poll. Why do you ask, ed? "Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions." — Elizabeth Gilbert Living in our new house. Currently scaping the land. Re: Window Colours - Help 28Apr 04, 2009 10:44 pm FND My pick would be silver. Since our supplier is A&L, we will go with Metro Silver. Just wondering, I will using Austral nougat for my bricks. Would silver window frames go well with nougat bricks? Hope to hear opinions from people here. Haywgl - I know u choose white birch for your window and it looks great! The reason we are leaning towards silver is because we want our garage colour to be colorbond shale grey, not surfmist. Happy to discuss. Stephen Metro silver is a great colour. Love it! I've seen metrol silver with nougat bricks, and it looks great! I think the CH display home in Alamanda estate display in point cook has a nougat bricked house with metro silver windows. Idiots are fun, that's why there is one in every village! - Dr. House - Re: Window Colours - Help 29Apr 05, 2009 9:35 am wonderland FND My pick would be silver. Since our supplier is A&L, we will go with Metro Silver. Just wondering, I will using Austral nougat for my bricks. Would silver window frames go well with nougat bricks? Hope to hear opinions from people here. Haywgl - I know u choose white birch for your window and it looks great! The reason we are leaning towards silver is because we want our garage colour to be colorbond shale grey, not surfmist. Happy to discuss. Stephen Metro silver is a great colour. Love it! I've seen metrol silver with nougat bricks, and it looks great! I think the CH display home in Alamanda estate display in point cook has a nougat bricked house with metro silver windows. wonderland - i have seen your post and pic re the silver bifolds and windows. They are great!!! Just what we actually want I am abit relieved now that you and donuts are saying the nougat will look great with silver windows. Thats one thing off my list! I have got 1 week to go before my colour appt. Btw, I will be visiting this display home in Alamanda estate that u mentioned, CH is? Clare**** homes? Pardon me if I am wrong Stephen Williams Landing Stage 10 - Kingwell Neighbourhood Re: Window Colours - Help 30Apr 05, 2009 9:50 am FND wonderland FND My pick would be silver. Since our supplier is A&L, we will go with Metro Silver. Just wondering, I will using Austral nougat for my bricks. Would silver window frames go well with nougat bricks? Hope to hear opinions from people here. Haywgl - I know u choose white birch for your window and it looks great! The reason we are leaning towards silver is because we want our garage colour to be colorbond shale grey, not surfmist. Happy to discuss. Stephen Metro silver is a great colour. Love it! I've seen metrol silver with nougat bricks, and it looks great! I think the CH display home in Alamanda estate display in point cook has a nougat bricked house with metro silver windows. wonderland - i have seen your post and pic re the silver bifolds and windows. They are great!!! Just what we actually want I am abit relieved now that you and donuts are saying the nougat will look great with silver windows. Thats one thing off my list! I have got 1 week to go before my colour appt. Btw, I will be visiting this display home in Alamanda estate that u mentioned, CH is? Clare**** homes? Pardon me if I am wrong Stephen Hi FND, thanks and we hope it will all go well together also!! CH is Carlisle Homes, I think its the pagoda 35Mk2 which has the nougat bricks with silver windows. Looked awesome!! Idiots are fun, that's why there is one in every village! - Dr. House - Re: Window Colours - Help 32Apr 05, 2009 11:05 am I love Woodland Grey too... When we were building, it was hard to decide which window colour to choose.. so we went for timber windows to the facade.. but Woodland Grey to the rest of the house. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Built the Nevada 42 Next project - landscaping! Re: Window Colours - Help 33Apr 05, 2009 11:14 am Quote: Why do you ask, ed? Maybe because he is a window supplier and likes to keep up with customer opinions Anyway I voted beige, we have merino window frames - I actually wanted and thought we were getting primrose which is more cream than beige but somehow missed the fine print in contract - merino is similar but not the same, it is ok but am still annoyed with myself for not picking it up before it was too late to get it changed (like when the windows were installed ) Re: Window Colours - Help 34Apr 05, 2009 11:55 am Helyn Quote: Why do you ask, ed? Maybe because he is a window supplier and likes to keep up with customer opinions I realise all that, but I wondered why he picked these three colours. "Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions." — Elizabeth Gilbert Living in our new house. Currently scaping the land. Re: Window Colours - Help 35Apr 05, 2009 12:54 pm donuts Why do you ask, ed? These 3 colours are supposed to be the most popular. We use them with Burbank Homes and have these is stock as finished windows and doors- BUT... silver has almost no demand, despite the colour we have being real silver rather than the dove grey offered by many... Can't understand it unless the whole colour scheme on offer is unpopular. Ed "ECOECO" At 'EcoEco', we design windows, we design the best windows, we do it for you, so that when you’re happy we are happy. Tel. 1800 326 326 Re: Window Colours - Help 37Apr 05, 2009 1:20 pm I've got to admit Ed - I never even considered silver until I joined this thread. I think to me it reminds me of my childhood home and Mum and Dad having aluminium window frames. Colours seemed to be more "pretty". Silver more utilitarian? Some things are worth waiting for. Re: Window Colours - Help 38Apr 05, 2009 4:32 pm For me personally, silver has to be in the right kind of house. I think it gives an industrial edge almost, and that doesn't suit a lot of homes. Black and white are great because anything goes internally, but with white, if there's sliding doors, the cleanliness of the tracks becomes a potential issue. Maybe that's why people go with beige instead? Woodland Grey can be limiting depending on the interior. If the interior is Grey or charcoals, the windows suddenly look very green. With people loving beige, the beige colours are safe I guess. The other issue is if you are using other colorbond colours. We are using Evening Haze for guttering etc, that really only left us with black, white or Woodland Grey that would work. The Woodland Grey I felt would be more limiting than the the others, so we chose black. I leave you to fend for yourself, figure things out yourself. Terrence Malick Re: Window Colours - Help 39Apr 05, 2009 7:08 pm I agree with kyton - I too grew up with silver aluminium windows and tend to think of them as old-fashioned, so perhaps that's why there's not much demand for them. But I think they are making a comeback, and perhaps we H1-ers are a bit quicker off the mark then your average homebuyer, hence the difference in opinion? "Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions." — Elizabeth Gilbert Living in our new house. Currently scaping the land. Re: Window Colours - Help 40Apr 05, 2009 9:30 pm Helyn Another colour which seems popular in new houses around here is a dark blue - is it deep ocean ?? Yes, and that's my colour! It matches the blue tinges in some of our bricks (Austral 'Latrobe') and doesn't look out of place from the inside with our light grey architraves etc. Out of Ed's list of 3, I chose black. There is a house nearby which has what I describe as wheat coloured bricks with black window frames and it looks awesome from the outside. That house has a very dark rendered portico. For comparison, another house in the area has a grey taupe coloured rendered facade, with white window frames and white venetians, and looks equally as good from the outside. As long as the frames match something they will look good IMHO. Geoff - Decophile. Hey. Head to a metal and decide on which profile you will use first. Profiles with larger corrugations can greatly change the appearance of the color in different… 0 3418 I'd get the gutters to match your roof and pipes to match the paint - otherwise they become a feature. Nice pick with the paint colours! 1 34378 |