Gray/Anthracite-colored windows - the new "white"?

It was also our first idea to have white walls, white windows. However, somewhere we had seen black ones with white walls, we liked that. Besides, the external [Raffstores] should also be anthracite, you can see them from the inside as well. I think we like completely anthracite best. Olli

It was also our first consideration for white walls, white windows.

No thanks. Firstly, you don’t want to get a milk fever from just looking at it (i.e. it almost "forces" colorful accents), and secondly, in the midst of high-dose whitewhitewhite you perceive both the variety of shades of white (which can indeed "clash" with each other) and every speck of non-white as "disturbing." I always say symmetry is a substitute aesthetic for proportion dyslexics – in my opinion, an overdose of white as pseudo-purity behaves similarly.

The windows (anthracite outside, white inside) are supposed to cost an additional €3200. We haven't requested anthracite on both sides yet, let's see what that costs extra.

We had a similar surcharge as you for white inside/grey outside. For both sides it was something like €5500 extra.

We decided against colored and for white :)

Here at least the windows in color. The plaster will surely come next year.
https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/bau-eines-mehrfamilienhauses-bzw-2-doppelhaushaelften-nach-kfw40.33918/post-453102

We had a similar surcharge as you for white inside/grey outside. For both sides, it was something like a 5500 Euro surcharge.

We decided against colored and for white :)

For us, the surcharge for both was something like €6,500. For anthracite or grey outside - something between RAL 7012 - 7106 (but not foil-wrapped, instead with an aluminum shell) we had an extra cost of €3,800.00. Inside it would have been foil-wrapped, which is no problem. No color-foiled windows on the outside for me :)

White windows on the outside somehow look "cheap" to me - but of course that's a matter of taste. We will go for a darker grey, not directly anthracite. We found a great window manufacturer with really nice colored aluminum shells.

Colored inside I find difficult... You always have to think: maybe you have a colored wall, then a wooden floor, additional colorful accessories, possibly white/colored inner windowsills, then of course the window frame really stands out... It might then look more like a colorful, quirky villa. I would definitely be careful - it can definitely work - but it doesn't have to :D

Somehow we are now favoring anthracite inside + outside after all.

But that is quite a strong contrast to the usually white walls. I find that terrible ;)

No, that can look very classy. I had black wooden windows with muntins in the townhouse. That had something special, but not worse... rather better... although I’m not a black-and-white combo person :)