Hi Shannon, I agree with Colour Confidence, the Colorbond range is great to use, and will give you some lovely results. If you were being a little braver, I would suggest looking to nature for colour inspiration. Look at things such as the plants surrounding your home, for example, tree trunks / leaves etc. and choose a colour with grey tones, which will work with the Woodland Grey. Colours from nature tend to blend and not date like other colours, but at the same time there are some beautiful colours to work with. The colours for this home I designed came from the mauve in the trunk of local gum trees, it works well with the colorbond and sits beautifully in it's setting in rural Western Australia.

All the best, Shelly

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Hi, we have a Woodland Grey roof and guttering and water tank, and
painted the exterior house walls in Dulux Designer Plum. The windows are
painted in Antique White USA. The house is surrounded by evergreen and deciduous exotic trees, and blends in very well.

We have woodland grey guttering, window frames and verandah posts, and the house paint is tinted to colourbond paperbark we then tinted the verandah fretwork to a quarter strength paperbark for the highlight, our front door is a deep terracotta colour which completes the look, our house is has bullnose verandah and was built in the late 1800's in the country

@dousaustin - I would love to see a pic if you have one handy please? We have Woodland Grey gutters and downpipes and I need a colour for fascias and windows - it has to all go with recycled brick walls. I was considering Paperbark. I also want an orange front door - your scheme sounds very similar to what I'm thinking of. TIA.

Hi goodall_shannon, I have the exact same dilemma at the moment and just wondering where you landed with your render colour choice? TIA,

Paperbark would be a great compliment in my opinion

Slightly warmer than and would compliment the brown in the brick, but is not to dark as to still provide for a contrast

We have Woodland Grey roof, gutters, water tank and sheds and used Dulux Powered Rock. Really depends what look you after whether you go light or dark.
Good luck

Just seen is old post

Hi there, I have painted base boards posts vreandah roof beams all woodland grey, it looked grey and I was happy. Then I painted the top side facia which has a peak section and flat section and it looked more green, I get that lighting can have an effect. Would you say that most of your woodland grey including sheds look more on the grey side? Sorry for the essay. I haven't done the garden yet. Thanks in advance if you see this post.

Hard to say as everyone sees colour so differently. It is a grey with a dark green undertone. The neighbours across the valley have Woodland grey and it goes from grey to green to really light colour during the day depending on shadows. Sorry does help as it is one of those colours that changes a lot. It seems to be a universal colour that goes with everything

I was looking at the rafters of a verandah at a cafe recently. I would swear that some are a different colour. Had a discussion with owner and he advised it was all the same. It’s amazing what even a small change in angle can do to our perception of colour as the light bends and refracts bringing to the fore different base colours.
I like woodland Grey as it has the warm green undertone. Some greys go more to a cooler blue. It’s all a preference

I've just seen this in the latest replies , and realise it is an old post , but I am somewhat surprised no-one has addressed the elephant in the room -- the big picture !

The existing build has charcoal or black window joinery , plain mission brown bricks , a maroony colour on the gutters , and quite a dark tile roof .

The addition has mid-grey doors ( you say it is woodland , but it looks darker than the roof ) , grey roof with a totally different profile of roof and edging , and wall covering that looks nothing like brick . And you want to ( presumably have already ? ) paint it a shade of grey ?

I have huge news for you -- it won't quite blend in !

I'd want to see the WHOLE house , but a quick idea -- go for a beige or mushroom on the new addition walls , do every gutter and facing ( old and new ) in charcoal , match the 2 roofs colour wise , and cross your fingers --- hope they complement , rather than clash .

Oh wow, lots of notifications on my old post recently. Thank you everyone for your input. We ended up just painting it all woodland Grey as we just weren’t completely happy with all the alternatives we tried. We’re happy with it. The old build has had all the guttering, frames etc all redone in WG as well to tie in. ( @pottsy99 the bricks are more red and the doors are definitely woodland so probavly just the lighting of the pic making it look different). Don’t have a pic handy but can post another time if people want to see.

Pottsy. I was responding to the question Tracey G posted on 30/7/20

Shamaygoo always love to see the end result.

Kate -- did you think I was 'having a go' at you , possibly about the grey ?

I was just pointing out mainly to shamaygoo that , IMO , brown and grey don't blend together , and no-one seemed to have pointed that out .

In her reply , she says that all the trim and ( window ) frames have been done in grey , to tie everything in .

Hi just found this post - we are thinking of WGrey roof and gutters and Colour Bond Sandbank for the hardy plank on our 80’s house - grateful for input/thoughts - see photo of bricks. Do you think grey is on the way out?!!

Don’t worry about fashion. Your bricks are the dominant feature in any event. Woodland Grey has a slight green base. I have it on my gutters.
is that black in your bricks which might lean me to monument? Diff to tell from photos

Yes a little black in the brick. Actually this photo is pretty accurate. We don’t have much hardy plank - hoping to make the plank not the feature. I’ll have a look at monument. Thanks!

Hi All,

Piggybacking on this post for boundary fence colour feedback please.

We have Colourbond Gully on the roof and a section of the house is painted to match. The rest of the house exterior is Dulux natural white (50%). Aggregate at front and back is Holcim acacia.

Gully is not available as a fence colour so isn't an option.

The garden will be started from scratch, so there isn't any current plantings to consider.

I personally think Dune is a better tonal match but am worried its too light and wont make the plantings pop like Woodland grey would.

The garden will be started from scratch so no outdoor plantings to currently consider.

Thanks Ria

Best colour I think for fences and walls to make planting look amazing is Monument, goes with everything

@MC Hamilton I agree, love the way any greens pop with that colour. It would also tie in really nicely if we went with black steel pool fencing around the pool.

I discounted it as I think it would be a hard sell to get the neighbours over the line with monument - they both have the old school cream fencing on their other boundaries and one has their fence very close to the house and would be concerned about heat.

What is your fence made of ? if rendered , I'd go lighter shade like surfmist or similar , then any trim in Monument or similar . but if it is timber , then a charcoal stain , for all the above reasons .

@User the fence will be a new 100% colourbond fence, we are not painting an existing one.

It will also have matching side gates that attach to the rendered house (natural white one side and similar to gully the other)

Hi, would wallaby walls look good with woodland grey roof and black windows ?

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