Hi Michelle and other forumites,
I have posted this message in Building a New Home, but as Michelle you are the revered guru on all things colour I thought I should put it here also.
We have been caught short on time for deciding our external colours and am seeking advise as follows:
[quote]Hi All,
We need to decide our external colour selection in a bit of a hurry and do not have the time to drive around and check out other houses as much as I would like to - so I am putting a call out to anyone for their help in considering whether our colour selections will work.
Below is the picture that we have based our facade on - this is essentially the look we are trying to achieve - though we will certainly not be able to afford the stone piers straight away so they will be brick - oh and we have a third pier being the right hand one, as our builder said we could not do it with only the two...also, we have a room out to the left of the front room(bedroom) for our ensuite, which just has a small highlite wrap around window up under the eave.
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So we are thinking for our externals:
Roof: Colorbond Ironstone (I had always thought we would have Woodland Grey but have heard a lot lately about it having a greenish tinge, so thought would be better with Ironstone?)
Bricks: Austral Grange or PGH Oyster (Any thoughts re which? I have always loved the Oyster, but upon seeing it at PGH it looked darker than I had ever seen it look and we were worried might be too dark a contrast to our front and too dark with roof. These are considerations for us, as we are on a corner and you will see down the side of our house and over our fence, as we will only be rendering the front)
Render: Yet to be decided, but if anyone has any ideas based on what is in the picture, happy to hear them - as we will be arranging this ourselves afterwards.
Panel Lift Door: Slate Grey or Surfmist (Do people think surfmist will be too light with these colours? I guess the appeal is that it is included as a standard with our builder, whereas the slate grey is an upgrade)
Windows: Silver? (Am thinking I want the Southern Star silver - cant remember what it is called - throughout the house, but obviously in this pic they have white. Do people think the silver will be too much, or will it work?)
Front Door: Roof colour/Ironstone
Any thoughts, comments, advice, other colour suggestions etc from much more experience H1 people than us would be much appreciated!...Sorry this has been such a long post.
Thanks so much!