The Dulux Stepney is a nice grey and would look great with the trim in Dulux Lecicon, you could paint the lower timber in Dulux Raku or Domino to ground the home. Grab some sample pots and try a few boards and some trim areas to get a feel before you purchase the paint for your complete home. Browse some of the exteriors in the Houzz photo's area. Don't forget to let us all know what you decide to go with and post an after photo for all to see. Happy painting Regards Paul Wales

Hi everyone, we're renovating our home and adding an extension at the back. As part of the extension our draftsman asked us to consider the colour scheme for the front of the house so it would continue through to the extended part of the house.Colour scheme atm is very yellow (not cream) and red (metal roof) with green trims. Whilst it's cute for what it is, we're trying to achieve more of a modern look to match the modern extension out back.Draftsman suggested more of a off white beige on walls and maybe a aluminium or colorbond grey for the roof.I don't mind the off white/beige but afraid this might not be modern enough? We don't need the house to pop, just trying to achieve a more modern and timeless result. Whatever colour we choose for the roof, assuming it's in good nick, is it possible to paint over instead of changing the whole roof sheets? Assuming painting is cheaper...

Hi Jared, I too like your colour choices. I’d suggest though painting a large swatch on the boards before ordering your paint colours and viewing the colours over at least a couple of days, at different times. Maybe even put some paint on each NSEW aspect. Recommending this as one of the colours we’d initially chosen was much paler irl and one threw a bit more green than blue. I love surfmist, we have it on our gutters, but just check that the sun shining on it won’t reflect directly onto traffic if the roads about you are sloping or raised.

I'm interested in chatting with some people currently in the renovation market for research on a new platform that will tag Brands of paint and colours and show you the closest property with that colour. If you are interested in looking at a prototype please email me at greg@whobuiltthat.com.au. Thanks.