House exterior color design / color coordination - experiences?

And for some, it is already a value in itself to swim against the current.
This is how, for example, the hipster movement started, only to turn into the opposite...

On the topic: We would have liked to choose a color other than traffic white (similar). But apart from an estimated 3-4 thousand EUR additional cost. A window would probably have been possible afterwards, but now I have settled on simply painting colored frames around the windows. Probably green-gray or something, that is still under negotiation with my wife.
We originally wanted roof tiles in green. Braas no longer manufactures them. The alternatives from Benders were somehow not fully satisfying, or the wife and child could not agree on a color. The shape I preferred (double S) was not available there at all.
So now we chose Braas after all and the Harzer Pfanne in slate gray (so ultimately probably anthracite).
I’m already curious how it will look when finished.
We are also still negotiating about the front door. I would just take white or light gray or something like that here too. My wife wants dusty pink.

For us, the whole thing was definitely very price-driven, otherwise we would probably have a light green pastel facade and bright red (or something) windows.

The surcharge for a different color is shocking. I may be underestimating the limitations that builders are imposed by general contractors and property developers.

Anyone who looks carefully will also find very inexpensive solutions.

Often it's simply a lack of creativity and courage.

In the end, it's all about the overall impression.

This thread is probably about the question: which gray (or another color) would I like?!

the color scheme outside? So roof tile color to window color to front door color to garage door etc.? There is always the possibility to choose RAL colors... Has anyone done that - or how did you design it?

You really don’t have to make a big deal out of it: if it’s supposed to be gray, then you can just do it – whether the roof tiles are the same or a shade more yellowish instead of bluish, you can’t really see due to the light refraction of the other surface anyway. And anyone bothered by that is just a bit more picky... that has nothing to do with courage or creativity ;)

With us, almost all colors for the house facade were possible without extra charge. What cost money were color accents of 11ant referred to as Smokey eyes.

With another provider, the color palette was limited, even regarding what was possible for an additional charge.

I think that even within the tight constraints of some general contractors or their budget, there are always opportunities to create a nice home for oneself. If the facade color is simply too expensive, you just have to come up with ideas far from expensive modular offers from hardware stores. Furthermore, I also doubt the opinion that you can only create something beautiful "with money." I like to recall the home builder in Sweden who had put up a sign in his front yard reading: "I’m not participating in your competition." I try to remind myself of that again and again. I think it is not only difficult in house building to find your truly OWN will or taste and not something you just do to keep up with others or to outdo someone. Envy often arises because someone has not dared to do something themselves; so the "poor" envy the money of the "rich," and the "rich" envy the "simple and easy" life of the "poor." Even in such a forum, an unhealthy pressure can arise that you can only escape with discipline and self-confidence; as a perceived layman, you just prefer to do everything so you won’t appear foolish later... only to find out afterwards that you are foolish because you did everything (this is my own first experience with building). I am amazed that sometimes, despite the thousands of varieties, individual builders know tile or flooring products even by name, as if there were only three types like in the past, where you could choose between Stragula in blue, gray, or green.

to create something beautiful "with money" alone.

But this is not about beauty or whatever at all. It's about how the color palette was put together.