ᐅ Appearance question: Choosing the right window color to match roof tiles
Created on: 14 Apr 2025 08:51
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Salvator2025
Hello everyone,
We are planning to build a single-family house with two full floors and a gable roof (22°) without eaves.
The following considerations are on the table:
(1) Light gray smooth roof tiles and light gray wood-aluminum windows: This is a safe choice. However, it naturally looks like the usual standard design.
(2) Red smooth roof tiles and wooden windows (possibly oak?): This option appeals to us visually the most, but we are concerned that wooden windows might lose their color and turn gray after just a few years. Does anyone have experience with this?
(3) Red smooth roof tiles and wood-aluminum windows: In this case, we have the problem that we do not want gray windows with a red roof, as we don’t like that combination. Our question to you: Has anyone found a great RAL color that works well with red roof tiles?
We realize this is ultimately a matter of personal taste but are hoping for some input from you.
We are planning to build a single-family house with two full floors and a gable roof (22°) without eaves.
The following considerations are on the table:
(1) Light gray smooth roof tiles and light gray wood-aluminum windows: This is a safe choice. However, it naturally looks like the usual standard design.
(2) Red smooth roof tiles and wooden windows (possibly oak?): This option appeals to us visually the most, but we are concerned that wooden windows might lose their color and turn gray after just a few years. Does anyone have experience with this?
(3) Red smooth roof tiles and wood-aluminum windows: In this case, we have the problem that we do not want gray windows with a red roof, as we don’t like that combination. Our question to you: Has anyone found a great RAL color that works well with red roof tiles?
We realize this is ultimately a matter of personal taste but are hoping for some input from you.
Dear @Nice-Nofret,
It doesn’t need to appeal to me, but only to you. Besides, this is solely about providing ideas for the house design of @Salvator2025. Therefore, examples that the original poster comments with “no, definitely not” are useful as a way to define negative boundaries.
I am surprised that someone I don’t know at all thinks they can judge whether something might be too colorful for me or what I might like. It’s like assuming a person who wears a plain-colored shirt can’t also like colorful Hawaiian shirts. I have lived in a rented apartment in an Art Nouveau villa and for many years in a house with brightly painted, huge radiators, colored light fixtures, wine-red walls, even colored door handles, and finally in an extension of an old castle with colorful wall paintings, among other things. Now I live in a house clad with gray wood in a rather simple style, but I can assure you that I have enjoyed living in all those places equally and well. And if I move again, it could be anything from a modern loft to a rustic wooden house in the countryside – why shouldn’t that be possible? A rock musician can also like classical music, and a Michelin-star chef can enjoy a currywurst.
@Nice-Nofret, from the little that can be seen in the picture, you seem to have an interesting and probably nice house, which we would gladly see to better understand your taste. Why not show a bit more than just the driveway, flowers, and the garage shadow? You’ve already complained, so why not contribute something constructive here with some pictures?
Your chosen blue and yellow wouldn’t be my first choice of colors, yet I can imagine the overall look is very stylish and (most importantly!) it suits you! My former house was plastered in a blue tone, perhaps that’s why I now prefer warm reds or wood.
Recently, I saw a house plastered in a warm brown shade with light gray windows and partial wood cladding. I thought that looked really chic, just like in the photo of the architect I mentioned, where a black house or house section stands on a green lawn. There are so many different tastes leading to Rome, and behind a gray wood facade does not necessarily live an equally gray spirit. Where the exterior looks cheerfully colorful, I don’t guarantee that the same is reflected inside the house or in the people living there.
So, here are a few nice pictures. And I really mean seriously interested!
Nice-Nofret schrieb:
My house will hardly appeal to you
It doesn’t need to appeal to me, but only to you. Besides, this is solely about providing ideas for the house design of @Salvator2025. Therefore, examples that the original poster comments with “no, definitely not” are useful as a way to define negative boundaries.
Nice-Nofret schrieb:
Certainly too colorful.
I am surprised that someone I don’t know at all thinks they can judge whether something might be too colorful for me or what I might like. It’s like assuming a person who wears a plain-colored shirt can’t also like colorful Hawaiian shirts. I have lived in a rented apartment in an Art Nouveau villa and for many years in a house with brightly painted, huge radiators, colored light fixtures, wine-red walls, even colored door handles, and finally in an extension of an old castle with colorful wall paintings, among other things. Now I live in a house clad with gray wood in a rather simple style, but I can assure you that I have enjoyed living in all those places equally and well. And if I move again, it could be anything from a modern loft to a rustic wooden house in the countryside – why shouldn’t that be possible? A rock musician can also like classical music, and a Michelin-star chef can enjoy a currywurst.
@Nice-Nofret, from the little that can be seen in the picture, you seem to have an interesting and probably nice house, which we would gladly see to better understand your taste. Why not show a bit more than just the driveway, flowers, and the garage shadow? You’ve already complained, so why not contribute something constructive here with some pictures?
Your chosen blue and yellow wouldn’t be my first choice of colors, yet I can imagine the overall look is very stylish and (most importantly!) it suits you! My former house was plastered in a blue tone, perhaps that’s why I now prefer warm reds or wood.
Recently, I saw a house plastered in a warm brown shade with light gray windows and partial wood cladding. I thought that looked really chic, just like in the photo of the architect I mentioned, where a black house or house section stands on a green lawn. There are so many different tastes leading to Rome, and behind a gray wood facade does not necessarily live an equally gray spirit. Where the exterior looks cheerfully colorful, I don’t guarantee that the same is reflected inside the house or in the people living there.
So, here are a few nice pictures. And I really mean seriously interested!
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Bierwächter28 Apr 2025 00:21I don’t actually find red roofs unattractive, but solely because I want to install a large photovoltaic system, I prefer a gray or black roof. Just wanted to mention this in case it hasn’t been considered yet.
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