What color window frames for our contemporary country home?

11 years ago

last modified: 11 years ago

We are building a contemporary country home on acerage in country Victoria. The slab is down and our window order is about to go in but I'm just having second thoughts about our choice of window frame color. We've chosen anodised silver in the Vantage Magnum range. I love them but I'm a little bit worried about whether it will compliment the country feel we are trying to achieve. I'm wondering whether black windows would give the home a 'warmer' feel.

Other details of our home include:
- skillion roof
- lots of north facing double glazing
- polished concrete floor which has a splattering of black stone through it
- white kitchen with open timber shelving and black highlights
- neutral color palette of white, grey, black, timber
- cladding will be colorbond in surfmist (white), render in grey/brown neutral, and some wood cladding

Any thoughts of window color? What would you do?

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J

10 years ago

I just choose that anodised finish for my vantage windows and doors. I also agonised over the colour choices. My house in in the burbs though. But this was what I was thinking: I wanted my frames to disappear, not make a feature of them. Maybe just applicable to my build though :) And I didn't want to deal with obvious dust / dirt on the dark frames. I worried that they would date. My neighbour has them with a dark window tint and it looks foreboding. Hope that helps... Good luck

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aday0j2
11 years ago
Jarrah window frames? Window frames sourced from salvage yards to add character maybe...
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10 years ago
Got any pictures, or renderings. Hard to say without seeing the whole design
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Elton Brown
10 years ago
What did you choose? We're in the same position.
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9 years ago
We are in exactly the same position! Concerned that black may dominate interiors and prescribe too cool a colour palette. Our house is very much as described by admodra above. Any thoughts? I was looking to include some softer warm colours in our grey/white/timber interior along with blues and greens. Exterior is timber, gal and Monument colorbond. Help!
brownsme
9 years ago
We just chose Momument, and our designer is putting together the entire colour scheme for the exterior and interior this week. We love the industrial feel of black frames and feel that a dark grey will still provide some of that feel, but without dominating as much.
Anthea Modra
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9 years ago
We ended up going with anodised windows in the Vantage range. We've been in our home for about 6 months and I am really happy with our window choice. We ended up going with colorbond cladding in Woodland Grey, with Shale Grey render and some timber cladding so the anodised windows were the obvious choice in the end. Had we stayed with Surfmist Cladding I think I probably would have gone with the darker window but I'm very happy with the anodised.
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9 years ago
That's great to hear @admodra - have also decided to go w anodised, thinking that it will help link the gal cladding. @sstop's comments about dust on the black frames were a help too, given that we are in a bush setting!! Thanks for your help.
wtharrison35
9 years ago
Hi @admodra, we're looking at rendering our house in shale grey but tossing up between surfmist and woodland grey for the colorbond cladding. Is it possible for you to email or upload a pic of your front facade please?
Many thanks
Rachael
9 years ago
After reading tall these comments, I would really like to see the end result of what you chose for the exterior - does anyone have any photo they could share? I am totally confused as to what window & roof color to have - it's going my head in !!!
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9 years ago
@Rachael It's a dilemma, isn't it?! Our house in the bush has ended up with anodised window frames and galvanised iron cladding (i.e. silver that will dull to grey) with a Monument roof. The view is huge and I think the black window frames - while I love them would have looked too urban and have framed the view too much, if that's possible. The view is so big we wanted to look 'through' the windows and their frames. Also, as I said above, dusty exterior window ledges would have driven us nuts. However, if I were in an urban setting, I would have gone for black windows and the dark roof if my views were more intimate. Good luck with the decision making ...

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