Optics question: matching window color to roof tiles

  • Erstellt am 2025-04-14 08:51:19

Salvator2025

2025-04-18 19:19:17
  • #1


I also really like a complete wooden facade cladding (like yours)! However, I have concerns that it might not look so good on our house, since we have the garage attached to the house and an extension on the south side. And there I fear that with wooden cladding it might be visually too much.
 

11ant

2025-04-18 19:50:00
  • #2
Then just don’t do it completely: only the gable sides, the front door, and the garage door in wood. And possibly also the "extension".
 

Arauki11

2025-04-18 19:50:33
  • #3
Both look nice, although I like picture 1 a bit better, especially when I imagine picture 2 without the wood. Basically, I understand what you want to achieve. I think it’s somewhat easier to keep the whole thing looking nice with wood or a greater proportion of wood, even if not everything around the house is tidy. I also find picture 1 nice, but I think the area around the house would have to be tidier there; I also like the light gray windows. I think that with this mindset you can have a nice house on the outside as well. We also have a 6x9 carport as well as a larger covered wooden terrace, and I think it looks quite nice. You can also see with , who left the wood on his house natural, that it still looks stylish and modern. Of course, almost everything is a matter of taste, but I wouldn’t have this concern, certainly not anymore now. I just looked at your plans again and could also imagine cladding the respective projections on both gable sides with wood and adding a contrasting colored front door. With a red roof, I would find natural wood nice, and with a gray/anthracite roof a light gray wood cladding. As I said, these are just very rough ideas, and there’s plenty of reference material for that. Because of your two extensions, I would actually not only plaster but at least clad the two extensions; I would probably even do everything in wood in one go. There will be plants, cars, sun umbrellas, and other things around with varying colors, so I prefer a calm, uniform overall appearance. It’s like with the kitchen photos. In reality, there are always various things there and not just that clean countertop. I still have a whole collection of ideas from the construction period. If you search online for "Wohnhaus Neuenstein F", something like that inspired me.
 

Salvator2025

2025-04-18 20:17:02
  • #4
Thanks for the input!


Great tip, looks great!
 

ypg

2025-04-18 23:40:26
  • #5
We built in anthracite-white. My parents already had black windows in their 70s house, I had a stylish modern terraced house with white plaster (very rare in northern Germany in the 80s, where brick was preferred) with black windows, so it became a bright white, and thus sun-reflecting, house with a plaster facade and in 2013 still quite new and very modern, the anthracite-colored windows. The other shades of gray were not common and therefore not offered. However, I still like the look of our house and would not want to exchange it, despite seeing the beautiful wooden facades here, nor could I exchange it. Because the development plan prescribes the plaster look for us. We were allowed to set accents: we chose the wooden slats. They cost us about (back then) 250/300 sqm. The south side has meanwhile been replaced with HPL panels. Then just do that! Ultimately, it's a matter of taste. There's no advice to give here or to come up with how one has built oneself. There are so many possibilities, Google is your friend. Usually, finances also play a role, but here with you it apparently plays a subordinate role, how expensive something is?! Then just do that. Light gray is also flexible. Drive around and look at houses. But eventually you have to decide, and then there will always be situations where you see other color schemes and like them. But you don't have to have everything you like. That's midlife-crisis thinking. By the way, I don't think the windows in your inspiration picture are wooden windows, but rather plastic windows with a wood look, in this case not in the common anthracite, but in wood color. Such a thing is still around. And it is nowadays not a shame if one protects the forest and relies on other materials that possibly come across as more ecological in production than the natural product.
 

ypg

2025-04-19 00:20:29
  • #6
I forgot to mention: it doesn't really matter whether beige or bronze, whether light gray or RAL xy, due to the refraction of the facade everything fits. And eventually these tones will also fall victim to the zeitgeist of being boring. You aren’t inventing a new zeitgeist with the existing surfaces/colors now, but are exactly where you were 15 years ago when anthracite started becoming widespread.
 

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