What do you think? Good luck Samantha. We want to change it up without having to change the cream awnings – 2. Really appreciate your help thanks. Woodland Grey is dark and has a green undertone, Dune is a lovely light colour but has a warm pink/brown undertone which I don’t think will work with your brick. Thanks so much. Sometimes strong colour when just used in a normal paint finish can end up looking garish. Tricks and Testing. Want to sponsor a post or maybe this blog? 3.the main house be natural white and Colorbond Monument for guttering. We have a rammedearth country house with natural timber beams supporting the roof lines. So, the house we are trying to build has monument gutter and facia with Surfmist downpipes and monument windows. Colorbond Wallaby is another great mid-tone colour with a gorgeous warm brown grey undertone.  In fact, just like a Wallaby!  A great choice if you prefer the warmer greys and neutrals. Colorbond Basalt is a lovely neutral mid-tone grey which I like to specify.  It does have a slight blue undertone but I find that it goes with many colour schemes and gives a classic look.  Good for traditional homes where the client wants a slightly lighter colour and great for contemporary homes too. Hi Sam, I hope you may have some fresh ideas for me. Im building my home and trying to work out colours. So we went with the floors instead of trying to go against them and did a meditaranium look. Windspray is a cross between blue and green and I don’t like it with the creamy colours like Russian Toffee and I think Wallaby wouldn’t work with all the Woodland Grey. Side Wall: Siler Birch Brick, Down Pipes: Dune, Facade: Feature Brick, Metallix-Emery. We are trying to modernise our house and have a surfmist fence and patio. no idear for garage colour, Hi Leah I think that I would opt for the Monument roof unless you live in a hotter climate, in which case the Basalt roof would be preferable to reflect the heat. We need to replace our gutters and paint the fascia and are very confused what to match with a terrain roof! This will get you started with choosing roofs, gutters & facias and the many other products, finishes and colours that you need to select.  Sign up free for it here. We are having trouble choosing between woodland grey, dune, shale grey, windspray or wallaby. source. We are renovating our 100 year old timber miners cottage. Mean spirited, derogatory comments will be deleted. Samantha. Monument could look striking but you will have more of a contrast in tone. SURFMIST – WHITE – (Rendered brick pier and Beam projection over main door and corner window) Dulux Winter Fog is a good option or try a little darker with Whakarewarewa Half to balance the columns – both great with Wallaby. Many thanks for your response Samantha. I pulled this color scheme combination together for a quick example and shared it on my Instagram profile to many likes and comments. Our new window trims are all Surfmist. :-). This house has a Colorbond Dune roof, gutter, facia and garage.  You can see how you can tell which colour the roof is from the flashing rather than the actual ribbed metal roofing. Hope this helps Samantha, Hi I would like some advice Hope this helps Samantha. (We alreasdu have the windows) Do you think this will work? Hi Samantha, Great article. HI Michelle Woodland Grey is a good choice with your home but it’s difficult to say which colour would work on the timber without knowing how much space this would take up and how it would look with the cream. We are also looking to install solar panel in the future. Thank you! If you are building or renovating I have a handy comprehensive exterior checklist which you can use to ensure you have everything covered.  You can download it free from my Resource Library. Hi Renee You really need to consider whether you would like a contrast with the black brick or whether you want to keep the house a single tone of colour. I really love this inlaid wood coffee table with the caramel leather sofa and subtly patterned blue green rug. For this reason, Colorbond Windspray is a favourite of mine as it gives you a light, silvery look but just has a bit more depth than the other lighter colours.  In some lights it appears a little blue and in others it appears green.  On the roof it looks predominantly silver grey. My husband feels white gets dirty too fast. Hi Samantha I also offer an online colour consultation service if you are stuck with selecting your colours.  From just one key question that is troubling you, through to a full colour scheme, I will have a package to suit you.  I can also tailor packages for you too.  Find out more here. Hope this helps Samantha. The painter suggests to paint the soffits and underside of the open carport in Spanish Olive but I am not sure about this. 6 Genius Ways To Make A Large Living Room Feel Cozy And Warm, MY NEW BOOK: How to Choose Perfect Paint Colors for Your Home, Advertising Privacy Policy, Comment Policy, and Disclaimer. I know it is dark for a warm climate but wife is set on a dark colour after having orange for so long. Hi Vanessa your builder is right – Vivid White has practically no pigment and painters hate it because the coverage is poor. At the moment we have white down pipes and white garage doors, we also have white window frames too which we can’t change. I’m quite reluctant now after reading more & more article about dark roof and thinking to change our roof colour to Windspray but worry I might mess the whole exterior colour scheme up especially we can’t change our window color anymore. Sue, Hi Sue the classic roof for the North Shore would be a natural terracotta or if you wanted grey then a simple shingle style mid grey with a Monument trim but it’s difficult to say without properly seeing the house. You are using Monument for the garage door though so this makes sense. I do like giving some strong definition to the gutters when the house is quite simple. Good luck Samantha. Do you think I could use Builder’s White or White on White? Any other thoughts? A colour overlay showing how the scheme could look in situ. We are building a kit home, it’s country style with verandahs. Id love any suggestions you may have, as i suck ar making choices! Sorry I can’t be of more help but Woodland Grey is definitely a good option. Hoping you could point me in the right direction we are renovating our 2000 house it has a white garage three posts with stack stone and it is rendered in beige royal half im painting my gutters roof and facsia not sure what colours I like the coastal look and prefer colours without the blue undertone would surfmist or dune be to contrasting to my beige render? green or blue in the sun) then feather dawn cladding and shale grey render. The display homes we have visited using the same brick have quite dark roofing- not sure if it is Monument or Ironstone which we think looks awesome, but we are not sure which one ?? It really depends on how bright you want it to be. Hope this helps Samantha. Colorbond roof, gutters & facia in shale grey. I’m not sure about Basalt too for the garage – without seeing the house it’s difficult to say how this will tie in. Like green asphalt shingles, red asphalt shingles were once a popular choice for early 20 th century homes. My concern would be about introducing Windspray into some of the trim as I prefer to keep this consistent. Woodland Grey works really well with this colour as it has a slight green undertone and isn’t such a harsh contrast as the blues. Good luck Samantha. Hi Samantha, Im using Adbri Ebony Brick and im stuck on picking a roof colour? I’m thinking of a basalt colourbond roof and gutters with white fascia and windows etc. Blue Paint To Go With Terra Cotta Tile. Gray or brown tiled roofs are neutral enough to paint almost any house color and still look good. I need some advice on trim colours for a 60’s/70’s style double story terracotta brick, brown tile roof house. (Used facade visualizer of big builders). Basalt will give you some definition to the house and I think this would be my choice. The weatherboard house is very simple with 2 pitched roofs over the house and carport, plus a small bullnose verandah roof out front- so you do see a lot of roof. Also worried about downpipe colour standing out on out brick exterior. Good luck Samantha. We were tossing up between Ironstone or Monument for the roof and gutters and fascia ( maybe even Monument roof with Ironstone gutters?)