External Colours

We had to choose external colours (roof, brick, gutter, fascia, window) before council submission(*), but we were having such a hard time deciding on the right colours. The problem was we couldn't visualise what the combined colours would look like on a house. And because they tend to make or break the overall look of the house from the street, we just weren't confident enough to finalise our choice. We mentioned this to our builder and had a meeting with their colour consultant for some advice, even though it seemed that this was not included in the usual selection process any longer(*). But if you don't ask for help, you won't get any so we are glad that we did. We had made a scrapbook with our shortlisted colour swachtes of Colorbond roof, gutters, fascia, brick, and external paint colour for the weatherboard, so we took that along with us for the meeting.

* Our builder's colour consultant told us that they have recently changed the way they do colour selections. They used to offer an appointment with the colour consultant to choose internal and external colours and electricals all in one go before the council submission stage, but now apparently they are doing the main colour choice appointment after council submission. This means that the customers are left on their own devise for choosing external colours but our builder was happy to help us with this.

The external colours we chose are:

Window: Anodic Off White (Matt) by Trend 
The real colour looks a lot whiter especially when you see it in natural light.

Roof and gutter: Colorbond Woodland Grey

Fascia: Colorbond Evening Haze

Garage door: Colorbond Evening Haze

Brick: Boral Escura Smoothface brick in Jute

For some reason all the colours look like similar tones of brown on screen, but the real life colours have different depths and hopefully will go well together. Using a colour simulation tool at Colorbond.com, we've managed to put together the kind of look we are going for. Note: the house design is one of their default ones, and our house will be brick, not rendered.

The look we are going for.