External Colour Selections

A few weeks ago we had our appointment with the lovely interior designer to help us choose our colours & tiles, and help us with the design elements of our house. This is the fun part! I'd really been looking forward to this day, yet I get very nervous about making the wrong decision. Our appointment took all day and we came out feeling quite overwhelmed, however we achieved a lot and had a clear vision for the house.

We are working towards a Hamptons style house, but on a very tight budget!! We were really keen to create a warm character house, without going overboard or making it too fussy. I'm just hoping we get the balance right! We love the warmth of the traditional weatherboard look and wanted to inject some colour into the house, both inside and out.

For the main colour for the house we decided on Dulux "Mount Eden". We loved the colour, and had decided on it after weeks of research and looking at weatherboard houses in our area for inspiration. Our interior designer felt it was too dark, however we love it and it has significance for us as it's the name of a suburb in Auckland :)

Dulux Mt Eden

House painted in Mt Eden

The gutter, fascia and garage door will be painted in Dulux "Shale Grey":

Dulux Shale Grey

Weatherboard House in Shale Grey

Then the gables, window frames, verandah columns, brackets & rail will all be in Dulux "Vivid White":

Dulux Vivid White

The front door and side lights will be in a black high gloss paint, something like this famous front door:

however, it will probably look something more like this (with the white trim):

Here's a picture of all of exterior colours taken with out samples:

It looks a bit dark in this picture, however changes again in the daylight. See what it looks like on the house! We've painted the Mt Eden on a bit of disgarded Linea Board (or Scyon in Australia), given to us by some good friends, and I will be testing it in different lights / positions to give us a bit more of an idea.

Next: Interior Colour Selection!