Help updating exterior house paint colours from 90's heritage look
We have an older house that is part brick, part weatherboard & we renovated it 18 years ago & painted it heritage colours. So we have fixed things to deal with like a Colorbond 'rivergum' room (similar to today's pale eucalypt), heritage red gutters & dreaded primrose aluminium windows, although there are a couple of timber windows from the old section of the house. The house was painted cream (don't know the exact colour name) & the posts we did in Dulux 'Lanolin'. Out the back we have powdercoated 'sandbank' posts which we can't change either but we could work with. We would like to paint the house a much deeper colour, maybe in the beigey grey tones & verandah posts/trims etc in a lighter colour. However, when we start looking at beigey grey colours, we're worried about the roof looking wrong with it & we're worried the pesky primrose aluminium windows will look more yellow than ever. But we don't want to accommodate those windows either. Would love to hear from someone who has overcome their primrose windows & managed to blend them successfully into a new updated decor!
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Comments (6)I like the idea of your mid to dark grey colour scheme, particularly as there's a hit of grey in your bricks. And the plan for decking over entry will make for a beautiful warm entry; I love the mix of materials. I take your meaning about potential decking extending out from entry along house front and around to the back entertainment patio as possibly looking strange. But, IF you plan to also deck the entertaining patio, I don't think it would look strange having the perimeter decking narrow. But I should ask, how narrow would it be? Just as an example, we have continuous decking along the north, east and west sides of our house. The narrowest path, which is about 10 metres long, is only 92 cms wide and leads from laundry room door to master suite decking with a see-thru gate delineating the two areas....See MoreModerinsing External 90s house
Comments (12)Congratulations, I love these colours and I think they could compliment your new house, a combination could be perfect, painting window trims and garage doors and all could dramatically change the look, very stylish and look great with your internal shutters....See MoreModernising exterior of 90s red brick house
Comments (16)You say this is a 1990's house . Its made to look like a 1930's house at present . To make it look 'modern' would take a lot of work , and IMO destroy the character of the house . Embrace what it is , tidy it and change the focus slightly , but personally I wouldn't take off the scrolls and those little posts , or even the walkway roof . Just my opinion , but if you want modern , you sell what you have and buy a modern place in grey on grey on grey , with charcoal -- there are more than enough unique points on this house that you either embrace it or you sell it ....See MoreUpdating a tired 90s brick house
Comments (13)Hi Lisa - well, we started!! Haha. We ended up painting all the ballustrades white, the poles a shade of beige/grey and then Domino on some feature walls/sections. However we had to pause as we went back at work during Covid (my husband and I run two business plus have two kids so we just ran out of any time to continue). And after some time, we've decided to change it all and go Monument 😆 We're going to get the roof painted in Monument and then keep the rest dark too - i'll be replanting the front near the stairs to the door so we're hoping the new greenery pops out. More work, but after seeing how it's turned out, we agree we think it will all look really nice it it goes the one colour, maybe a pop colour front door to balance it out :)...See More- 8 years ago
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