With us, the color combination resulted from the materials and because we like natural tones.
We had originally planned anthracite-colored windows as well – now they are in a color the window manufacturer calls "ETA" (I believe it has no relation to Basque separatists – but it's probably not RAL either), which is browner than anthracite. The window manufacturer recommended this to us for a natural larch facade instead of the anthracite. Since he himself had a larch facade, we were able to try it out directly and had to agree with him: when the larch weathers, anthracite looks dull, ETA fits better. So the windows became ETA. The roof is anthracite – due to the photovoltaic system. I simply don’t like red roofs with black photovoltaic systems on top. I find anthracite better because the photovoltaic system visually stands out less.
Quick as a flash: we practically ended up with anthracite-colored windows and an anthracite-colored roof. Without deliberately choosing this color combination.
What we definitely did not want were colorful windows on the wooden facade. Many do that because the wood eventually turns gray, and then they choose red or blue windows with it – which we find really ugly. But if someone likes it, they can do it that way.
Inside, we quickly settled on oak and Muschelkalk as the stone for the kitchen island. Also, my husband loves raw steel. That set the color palette inside: oak with the natural tones that Muschelkalk offers – the color of the raw steel is reflected there as well. Because it should be bright, white walls. At first, we were undecided about the windows inside: dark (so anthracite) or wood? The window builder, in turn, recommended simple white because it is "timeless," as he said. At first, that seemed somehow too bland to me. But next to the window company, the window builder’s son had just built a house, so we could look at white windows inside directly. And although they tend to look a little faceless in an empty house – once furnished, they have exactly the effect the window builder meant: timeless. Because they virtually disappear into the whole. So our windows inside became white, and we are really happy with that.
Doors were also a topic: we don’t have many doors (exactly 5 in the living area) and debated for a long time between white and natural oak. In the end, they became white doors. We have wooden floors almost everywhere and a (even if whitewashed) wooden ceiling. We were a bit worried it would be "too" woody. And we find our white, discreet, flush, and therefore unobtrusive doors very beautiful and are also glad we decided that way.
In the end, it became a house that can roughly be described as "white-anthracite-natural brown tones," but I would resist being lumped in with the classic anthracite-white colored townhouse in a sack!
Color comes into play for me through decoration: right now through a large bouquet of tulips in orange with branches on which wooden Easter eggs hang in various yellow-orange-green tones. At Christmas, we had a large, dark red amaryllis. I like such "color splashes." A few modern pictures bring color throughout the year and, thanks to the discreet frame, are no longer gaudy.
Overall, for me, it’s a color combination that I probably won’t get tired of quickly because they are natural tones. Although we have a lot of open space, it (at least in my view) does not feel bare or cold. We are happy with this color combination.
The color combinations initially mentioned by Pinkiponk, on the other hand, I personally find too "beige," giving me nicotine associations. Or I am reminded of my grandmother’s beige-on-beige-with-apricot living room – so definitely not livable color combinations for me. Slightly yellow walls in my environment belong to smokers who don’t want to constantly repaint; the association of "warm, summery," etc., would not occur to me at all. And people are just that different. If Pinkiponk likes it that way, then she should just do it like that!
What I don’t like is turning it into a dogma and saying: only this way is beautiful and right! I think there is no "right," only a "I like it this way." And if those are pink walls in the kitchen (we saw that yesterday in an exposé and it made my toenails curl).