I've just been looking at your colours, I think the Dulux Dieskau would work the best with the other colours you have to work with, choosing colours is such a personal thing and I know it can be really hard to choose and hope you make the correct choice. Oskuee is right, a paint job can look terrible half way through so you need to make sure you finish to get the proper look of colour. But the biggest thing to remember is it's only paint and it's the cheapest thing to change so if your not happy with the colour you choose you can always try something else. Happy redecorating :)

I would say it is more beige than grey. It has been quite some time since I have looked at a sample not online though. I like to look at the dulux colour atlas to see where the 'white/neutral' sits in relation to stronger colours. For example the white duck/oyster linen suggested sit in the green toned region. I like white duck for our home as we have woodland grey colourbond and I feel it is a charcoal with a green under tone. Based on your description of what you are after beige Royal sounds like a good choice. Fingers crossed sample pot helps you finalise selection against your charcoal roof colour and lighting.

There are lots of paint manufacturers apart from Dulux, and hundreds of whites that it could be. Unfortunately the natural light in the photo, the type of camera, any photo editing, and the adjustments on your computer screen make it impossible for anybody to say with any accuracy what the colour may be. The only way to find the right white is to get samples and make your own judgement on site. I always think that Perth light seems stonger and brighter than Sydney light - possibly due to Sydney's airborne pollution in the inner city? There are lots of online resources by various paint manufacturers about choosing the right white, but don't make selections from an online digital image as it won't be accurate. Best of luck, Dr Retro of Dr Retro House Calls

I think your house looks 'old' because of 3 things -- the beige , the roof but also the green fences . Even though the windows are darker , I wouldn't change the beige to Monument -- it doesn't feel right to me . I'd go crisp white , but I definitely would do the fences in a charcoal -- it doesn't need to be Monument or even a brand in my experience -- a $40 cheapie stain ( or the $100 concentrate ones you thin out ) is fine , because every time you clean your fence , no matter how much you've paid , some comes off , so you redo your fence every 2 to 5 years . Do those 2 , and maybe a bright red entrance door ( the door seems a mid red in a couple of pics , white in one I assume is earlier , but black in others -- maybe a screen door ? ) , and then stand out on the street and look -- you may not need to do the roof then . You say you have done or are working on the garden -- I am again making an assumption that you have conifers or similar under the bags ? Thats fine , but it needs gardens and modern plants too -- green leaves , yellow leaves , red leaves , dark branches , even grasses and cactuses . It all adds to it , but also modernises the feel -- the large bushy shrubs in most pics could easily have been what someone planted 50 years ago !