Good evening everyone,
my husband and I have been discussing for some time now which color our house’s exterior should be. It is a single-story house with a (converted) pitched roof, with the eaves side facing the street. The options are:
1. “Standard new build color combination”: roof, windows (and front door) anthracite, facade white
2. Roof anthracite, windows (and front door) white, facade gray. Similar to the example shown (found on the Pinterest page of Contract Vario)
Here are the advantages I identified for both options:
1: More premium appearance?
Standard look, generally preferred? – Higher resale value?
Dark front door less prone to showing dirt
2: Cheaper (white windows cost us about 20% less)
Facade may appear cleaner for longer?
Windows don’t heat up as much (popping/cracking – which we experienced in our last house with dark windows)
More eye-catching look
What are your thoughts?
my husband and I have been discussing for some time now which color our house’s exterior should be. It is a single-story house with a (converted) pitched roof, with the eaves side facing the street. The options are:
1. “Standard new build color combination”: roof, windows (and front door) anthracite, facade white
2. Roof anthracite, windows (and front door) white, facade gray. Similar to the example shown (found on the Pinterest page of Contract Vario)
Here are the advantages I identified for both options:
1: More premium appearance?
Standard look, generally preferred? – Higher resale value?
Dark front door less prone to showing dirt
2: Cheaper (white windows cost us about 20% less)
Facade may appear cleaner for longer?
Windows don’t heat up as much (popping/cracking – which we experienced in our last house with dark windows)
More eye-catching look
What are your thoughts?
Rehau seems to be an all-round supplier, offering a bit of everything (water fittings for the kitchen, air heat exchangers, cooling, underfloor heating, and also windows). I had never heard of that before. I often find that off-putting (for example, when a restaurant offers everything from pizza, fish, burgers, pasta, to Asian dishes, etc.).
But it seems that Rehau manufactures high-quality windows then @guckuck2?
But it seems that Rehau manufactures high-quality windows then @guckuck2?
annab377 schrieb:
Are Aluplast windows well-known throughout Germany? How do their prices compare? Affordable?
Okay, you just answered the question. What does “significantly more expensive” mean? If the white window costs xx, what was the price of the “wood-look window”?
The two exterior colors you mentioned look nice. Do you perhaps have a sample photo of your house to show how it will look? You can get Aluplast everywhere. I didn’t compare, since that’s what our general contractor decided to install. From what I hear, they’re not the cheapest but also not the most expensive.
Since we only got one total additional cost for both houses combined, I can’t tell you the exact price difference between a white and a wood-decor window. The surcharge from “all white” to “all RAL 7016” was amount X, and then roughly the same again going from that to the wood-decor, because it’s a special color. So the wood-decor was roughly double the extra cost compared to anthracite gray. Almost everyone goes for that now, so it’s cheaper in volume than a more niche wood color. And it was definitely a notable “ouch.” I don’t think €30 per window, as mentioned earlier, is realistic. For us it was closer to €300 per window. But we have a lot of glass, which means larger frames as well.
I don’t have a sample photo. We only put large color samples on wooden panels and leaned them against the facade. That worked for us. The rest is a bit of a guessing game.
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