Are you able to paint the window/door frames Val or will they be staying cream? Personally I love the traditional Indian Red & Classic Cream colour scheme, if done properly it can look fantastic but it needs at least one other colour included with it.
A frequent approach to painting a house of this type was to choose two shades of either cream, buff or pale green and a strong colour such as Brunswick green or Indian red. The majority of the timber work would was painted the paler of the light colours and picked out with the darker. The strong colour would then be used for the trim, such as door and window frames, gutters, barge board, capping and doors. - Ian Stapleton in How to Restore the Old Aussie House.
Another option that would work with your red bricks and roof tile would be a charcoal (not black) with cream, again using two shades of cream to ensure you create depth and definition.
I would think black would be the safest bet but I would be guided by any local houses with the same roof colour and era that you like the look of. Janet
I don't like either black or maroon. I'd leave it as it. There is nothing wrong with it. If you need to refresh it I'd repaint the green a strong shade of cream. I would add some colour to the garden with plantings.
You could also look a warm beiges / pale red browns to 'tone-on-tone' the red of the bricks and the roof ... Dulux Russet Tan in a series of half to quarter tones would be interesting - or go with a grey/beige neutral like White Duck - and again mix up a variety of strengths :)
montytaffy
Sammy Elder
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