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?
aero2016 schrieb:
This was most likely because the others had roof tiles, not roof stones. It probably has nothing to do with the color.No, not roof tiles but concrete roof stones. With red, dirt is simply more visible than with darker colors. Roof tiles definitely stay looking good longer. We have many houses here that are 10 to 14 years old, and those with red clay roof tiles look much better than those with red concrete roof stones.
Best regards,
Sabine
Curly schrieb:
Why did you design the front door/window with that corner detail? Why didn’t you extend it all the way up?
It’s a matter of personal taste, but I think only an anthracite or black roof suits a blue house.
Regards,
Sabine It was supposed to be a continuous strip of windows, but the structural engineer didn’t approve it, and where the window is interrupted, there is a steel beam. On the other side, there is the staircase plus the gallery. The door is a completely standard door. After seeing how complicated and expensive it was to replace a door element at our parents’ house, we just wanted a simple, standard door.
| Visual Versatility | Large | Very large |
| Weight | Medium | High |
| Environmental Impact | Average | Good |
| Weather Resistance | Good | Very good |
| Sound Insulation | Good | Very good |
| Installation | Medium | Easy |
| Durability | High | Very high |
I had to look up what exactly a roof slate is. But according to this table, roof slates should stay "clean" longer than roof tiles?
Roof tiles are more prone to algae and moss growth than roof shingles, which you can see everywhere when looking at houses. We spent a lot of time researching this topic because we didn’t like the dirty roof on our last house, and this time we wanted a roof that would stay cleaner for longer.
Best regards
Sabine
Best regards
Sabine
hausnrplus2510 Feb 2020 15:06Pinkiponk schrieb:
I assume you have looked at uPVC windows with a woodgrain finish? I ask because I personally like light wood finishes and hope that the frames will require less cleaning than white frames. We will probably decide based on the additional cost. Are there uPVC windows with a woodgrain finish?! We might look into that when the time comes. So far, we only know of timber frames, timber-aluminum combinations, or uPVC—usually in white or colored coatings. But brown coatings just look like brown coatings, not like wood.
Best regards
P
Pinkiponk10 Feb 2020 15:57hausnrplus25 schrieb:
Are there plastic windows with wood finish?!Depending on how much you pay, they can look more or less like real wood. My sister-in-law has these kinds of windows, and I think they are well done. Below is just a random example found on Google. They’re not actual wood, but depending on the price range and level of dirt accumulation, it’s not obvious at first glance.Similar topics