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?
hausnrplus259 Feb 2020 21:40We wanted to use brick cladding mainly for aesthetic reasons, but that is extremely expensive and makes no sense at all for a timber frame house. Now we are considering decorating parts of the facade with brick slips. Let’s see what the quotes say, but we are leaning towards a fully plastered facade since the money would probably be better invested in more important things in the end.
We also spent a long time looking for a color idea – of course, the decision is not critical at this stage, but we just wanted to have an idea of how the house could look. Since we definitely want white window frames (we have already ruled out the combination of white with anthracite windows; we are building the house to live in and love, not for resale, and often don’t find what everyone else does to be so attractive), and because white on white is not a nice combination, we had two ideas:
- White facade with wooden window and door frames -> we like this look, but we preferred low-maintenance uPVC window frames
- Or a gray facade with white windows and doors. This way, there will be no other house like it in our neighborhood, and since one neighbor’s house is gray brick-clad, it should fit in quite well.
The roof will be black/anthracite.
So, long story short: We are on your side.
We also spent a long time looking for a color idea – of course, the decision is not critical at this stage, but we just wanted to have an idea of how the house could look. Since we definitely want white window frames (we have already ruled out the combination of white with anthracite windows; we are building the house to live in and love, not for resale, and often don’t find what everyone else does to be so attractive), and because white on white is not a nice combination, we had two ideas:
- White facade with wooden window and door frames -> we like this look, but we preferred low-maintenance uPVC window frames
- Or a gray facade with white windows and doors. This way, there will be no other house like it in our neighborhood, and since one neighbor’s house is gray brick-clad, it should fit in quite well.
The roof will be black/anthracite.
So, long story short: We are on your side.
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