I agree about the brick;it's very nice. I also like the green and cream and wheat shades-just not all three! Picking up the green will incorporate your lampost, and might look nice on the fence and porch posts.I like the idea of cream elsewhere, as it is natural and warm -like your other materials -but still fresh. Pretty property.

The burgundy section of walls, above the garage should be the colour of your fascias, which is the timber detail that lines your roof. Seeing you want a more traditional look, the back of the porch Nd any wLl area that is burgundy on the top floor should be matched to your exterior colour now. Doing the following, I'd leave the garage door the colour it is. Your timber door can stay, although I'd paint it myself. The burgundy door won't matter against a dark colour. As for the lining boards on the roof, don't stain them. Paint them in an off white, or full white, perhaps This may tie into your windows. Although you don't have eaves, they could be added easily. They are called truss outriggers. I'm sorry you wanted a traditional exterior, I don't get that at all from what it is, except from your gable roof. The main dilemma I see is the front elevation is entirely flat, a single dimension, so nothing is stepped out or framed from one another. You could play up the enclosed porch. You can add timber details to it, so as I mentioned a slatted screen, paint it the white. Add a thick railing, to the top of the balcony wall, and below that I would actually install shingles. You would need to use a timber bead to create the area to do it, meaning a timber strip running from the balcony opening down to the bottom of the wall, so the entire area below your balcony could be clad in shingles. They can be fixed as a sheet, and painted one shade lighter than your current wall colour. Add a timber batten to also frame your gable, by adding a horizontal batten, as thick as your fascia, and some vertical battens around every 450mm. Giving a slatted look. These battens I would paint the is colour, and the infill area of current wall, I would repainting the same as the shingle colour. Tis way you are adding both visual dimension with colour and real texture. I would also consider adding a timber awning above the top window, just for dimension and detail. Paint in both the fascia dark colour and the white/off white shade you use. It will be on it's way to looking more traditional.

there is a beautiful green painted cali bungalow up the road from me, it has a dark green roof and the weatherboards are done in a paler green, with a darker green around the windows and trim. It sounds funny but it looks really lovely, all about the tones of green. I do think the grey white combo is beautiful too, and don't think it will make house look cold, its quite a subtle colour scheme. I have seen period houses painted those colours and they look really nice. Thinking of repainting our Californian bungalow in that combination, we have a dark red roof though, so I may go with a bluish grey?,

Hi our 1920's Californian bungalow is painted in Dulux Half Haast, which the previous owners painted about 3 years ago. We want to repaint the window frames and the shingles (which are a mid blue colour), but the weatherboards are in primo condition so we will work around the Half Haast colour. I'd like a charcoal or dark grey on the shingles, and repaint a classic white on the window frames. Does anyone know what Dulux dark grey would go best with Half Haast? At the moment the shingles are a mid blue which makes the Half Haast look more yellow based than grey, so I want to get well away from that and bring the grey tones out of the Half Haast. I'd also like to paint the front and back doors a near black or darker grey than the shingles, if you have any thoughts on that. Thanks heaps!