Optics question: matching window color to roof tiles

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Arauki11

2025-04-18 13:51:43
  • #1
two pictures in a hurry......
 

Salvator2025

2025-04-18 13:55:01
  • #2


It really looks great! You’re giving me completely different ideas now…
 

Arauki11

2025-04-18 14:19:42
  • #3

For us, it rather resulted out of necessity because our general contractor was missing craftsmen one after another, including the plasterer; today we are happy about it.
We were able to put a total of 16cm of wood fiber insulation behind it and I wanted to do quite a bit of it myself because it is quite easy to do, or together with a friend. Unfortunately, winter came along and other circumstances arose, so I ended up having it done anyway. I almost fell over at another offer that on the first three pages only emphasized the special features of the wood material and craftsmanship, but which then also had a drastic effect on the price.
We generally like simple, functional things and then had our carport builder do it on an hourly basis, which in the end was totally cheap and we could have helped reduce the hours; I would ask the small local wood dealers if needed. For the wood, we were convinced by ordinary spruce boards in 24mm, which we had cut into 3 widths and then painted ourselves with a Kreidezeit product. Next time I might have the boards planed because unplaned wood is tougher to paint; underneath is the foil intended for the open boarding. Then you can mix the wood as you wish and thus influence the appearance. I just let it happen, the gaps vary somewhat but in the overall view of the house no one can see that, at least I can’t. I wouldn’t have wanted it with the expensive rhombus battens, you can see that at every corner as unnecessarily expensive as well.
We live in the countryside and happily have beautiful flowers in the garden and therefore many kinds of insects. Of course, they always fly into the gaps just as birds like to do sometimes. We find that quite nice because it does no harm to the house.
One advantage I see is that you can unscrew a board at any time, replace it if necessary, screw on all kinds of things and also hide cables or similar underneath afterwards very well. All of that is much more difficult with plaster, also to repair at times, but the main reason is also that we really like it, especially the open wood boarding with the irregular widths.
I got hooked on that on the internet by very chic houses with such boarding. In the end, we built it the same way, only probably at 30% of the cost of what I found on the internet.
I just found 2 more pictures.
 

11ant

2025-04-18 14:40:23
  • #4
I also don’t like "wooden" tiles and ceramic "parquet." But for windows, where the inside is desired to be made of a "different" material than the outside, a foil (on the inside) is usually the best solution (I say this from the customer’s perspective, based on experience as a manufacturer and dealer). I already said in post #2 that RAL is not Pantone. Even a roof tile and a window frame with the "same" RAL tone would look visibly different to the naked eye. Above all, I like the different board widths; in a lighter version you can also admire this here at (in the house pictures thread).
 

wiltshire

2025-04-18 16:17:05
  • #5
I have seen the house of in many pictures by now. Simply beautiful.
In the thread House-Pictures-Exchange you can find on page 1398 the very successful facade of - good suggestion, !

With white plaster, you can see the typical weathering effects quite quickly - everyone has seen that countless times.

Thanks - that’s great!

For roof tiles, I usually prefer the wave shape in red and the smooth variant in dark gray/black. Your house can carry both variants.

If you use plaster, you can either only structure the window casings or also highlight them in color and choose light frames for that. These have the advantage of not heating up as much in sunlight. With larger plastic windows, dark decorations can sometimes lead to increased maintenance effort.

I personally like wood. We have a very rustic larch wood facade combined with a modern building structure and large roof overhangs with smooth photovoltaic roof tiles. The house grays over the years and no longer shines as it did at the beginning. Sounds like complete nonsense. We like it. Here is a drone shot from last August.
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Before you also ask me - no idea. We did not calculate any alternative. We just wanted it that way.
 

Salvator2025

2025-04-18 16:18:05
  • #6


I don't actually want a window color that is identical to the roof. At least not if the roof has red tiles. That is why my original question was whether anyone knows a color tone (perhaps beige, bronze, or similar) that harmonizes with red tiles.
 

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