Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Deliberating colour schemes, P2

Bricks - check! Now time to choose roof colour and trim.

Trim colours were an easy choice - white. I want to lighten the front of the house and have a clear definition between roof and bricks. In Colorbond this is 'Surfmist', which will be used for the fascia, window frames and garage. The front door will be Corinthian Doors, Madison in white also.

I found some pictures of other houses with similar brick colouring, that use the Colorbond Surfmist window frames and garage and have a white front door. The house design here is actually very similar to our front facade, only we'll hae one big window instead of two vertical windows. The white against the brick makes it so fresh and bright. Just need to choose a roof colour that compliments it now.

I used a Colorbond visualiser to generate different images of a house with the white window/door/garage colour scheme I like, and different coloured roofs. The colours I'm deliberating are Monument (a dark grey/navy), Jasper (a warm chocolate brown), and Dune (a grey/beige colour), with the Surfmist (white) garage and trim. The Surfmist and Dune both look a bit greyer here than it is in real life but it gives a general feel for the colours.


  
 
Alternatively I could mix and match the garages with the roofs or have the same colour garage and roof, as below - Monument and Jasper, Jasper and Jasper, Jasper and Dune or Monument and Dune.
 
 
            
Remembering there will be bricks between our roof and the top of our garage, unlike the images above, I'm leaning toward one of the brown combinations but am open for opinions. This decision is still up in the air thus far!

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