Colour for our house?

[Cloo]

As I've mentioned on house doings, we're going to be repainting our house. Neither gsv nor I like the red colour, leaning towards grey, blue-ish grey, with white around window details.

The only paint colours of houses in roads surrounding seem to be a similar red, greys of various tones, white or cream. Any recommendation for a) colours and b) exterior paint brands.

House looks like this:

 

[cesare]

Go for grey so that future lookers-on can assess when you last painted

Otherwise, go for a neutral light beige (warm shade to go with the brick).

Unless it's your forever home in which case just go for it.

 

[JimW]

Brick effect slightly larger and out of line with the neighbours to irritate passers-by.

 

[Cloo]

Yeah, I have said to gsv that grey will be totally early 2000s - I think that red is probably very 70s-80s. But some version is probably the best colour; I'd be up from a blue-ish grey and it would go with the front door.

 

[Elpenor]

Do other houses in the road painted white or cream seem discoloured from pollution?

 

[danski]

That paint Del Boy used in the Chinese takeaway

 

[WouldBe]

Stripes.














Diagonal stripes.

 

[Epona]

Yeah, I have said to gsv that grey will be totally early 2000s - I think that red is probably very 70s-80s. But some version is probably the best colour; I'd be up from a blue-ish grey and it would go with the front door.

I immediately thought blue-grey to go with the front door (mind you it's easier to repaint a front door than the front of a house) - but it's a good colour for painted exteriors anyway IMO, however much I love just good brickwork!
I'd go blue-grey personally.

I don't have any experience of doing exteriors tbh but whoever you get in to do it should be able to advise about type of paint and brands.

 

[Boudicca]

Or a pale green grey.

 

[marty21]

Or a pale green grey.

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Pretty much the same colour as our front door , the rest is white.

 

[RubyToogood]

If it was me I'd go for Barbie pink or apple green or something, but if you're not that sort of person light blue-grey would be nice.

 

[Aladdin]

Why not white?
It always looks good...

 

[cupid_stunt]

If it was me I'd go for Barbie pink or apple green or something, but if you're not that sort of person light blue-grey would be nice.

Someone wanted to piss off Worthing council, so painted their seafront house pink, it didn't turn out to well for her.

My mum's old place is painted apple green, I am going to re-paint it back to white.

 

[quimcunx]

Dark teal.

 

[19sixtysix]

How a bit decoration. The eye house of Peckham.

 

[Epona]

Or a pale green grey.

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That's also really nice

 

[dessiato]

Go for something discreet and classic because it'll last longer than something "modern." Look at how the other houses are painted and do something similar.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Day-glow lime green brickwork with radioactive neon yellow for the windows and door. Make your house stand out and cheer up the neighbours.

 

[izz]

Disappointed nobody's opted for pebbledash. Liking a bluey-grey though, to go will with the door and window.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Stripes.

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Diagonal stripes.

that would just be silly

 

[farmerbarleymow]

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that would just be silly

Or black and white stripes to please ska invita

 

[WouldBe]

Or black and white stripes to please ska invita

They would need to be horizontal.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Disappointed nobody's opted for pebbledash

there's always

 

[WouldBe]

there's always

Or multiple colours if you can't decide on just the one.

 

[scifisam]

Very dark red would look nice, be easy to paint over the colour you have now, work well with the other colours and fade well.

Otherwise a sort of navy would look good. Both colours would look nice with the door.

I don't like grey on houses, personally - we have enough of that in the sky.

There's a house near me painted a sort of light orange - very clearly orange, not peach or yellow, but not bright - with a grey door and grey window and door surrounds, and it looks amazing, but I suspect it'd need repainting too often, and it's a smaller house.