Tarting up the exterior of a 90s red brick house

[Aviz]

Anyone any suggestions ? As all the woodwork and garage door is going to get a coat of paint and I need to pick a colour sharpish. I'm actually colour blind so not that great at this sort of stuff 😀 .Rather than just brown , I wondered if anyone had any other inspirational ideas ? The brickwork is a very red 90s new build.

Ideally I'd render the lot, new windows and guttering and probably a roof, but budget is not there right now. Getting rid of the lead work in the windows for starters and then maybe the garage door a dark grey.

I was also considering if there might be another colour choice for the fascias and boards on the front. Gutters are black. I've also been looking briefly at the option of vinyl wrapping the brown rosewood upVC windows .

This isn't actually my house but it's identical apart from my garage door is dark green ( I thought it was brown for the last 5 years😀)

Cheers

Avi

[dazwalsh]

I would replace leaded glass for clear, and the units if budget allowed, and if possible remove all that wood stuck on the bricks, it's horribly fake.

[Chris Type R]

Have you considered exterior cladding in a light colour ?

Something like https://www.marleyeternit.co.uk/Facades/Weatherboa... the "Hanley Castle" photo.

[ColinM50]

Fashion now is for grey and the Marley cedral click link given shows loads of different shades. For my taste I'd go with a mid grey paint over the brown wood and infill the bricks with lighter grey, though that might be a bit OTT. Contrasting grey or white for the garage door.

[Galsia]

I don't think that there is much that you could do to stop it looking like a 90s house. Besides, it actually looks really nice as it is.

Edited by Galsia on Saturday 3rd June 12:03

[outnumbered]

If you tart it up then in 10 years it'll look like an out of date '10s house instead, plus it'll stand out like a sore thumb from its neighbours. I'd just stick with the period look personally.

[HOGEPH]

[dazzalse]

The picture looks like you are on a development/small estate. You may find there is a covenant in your deeds which restricts how much you can change the exterior appearance.

[8-P]

I have had similar thoughts, mine is similar only got the mock Georgian look. I dont hate it, but it wouldnt be my first pick, luckily its only on the garage side of the house. I did eventually decide though the cost just wasnt worth it - new windows, cladding etc just too much money when my windows are only a few years old anyway. That and Im in a cul de sac of 14 and it would look a bit odd.

[Aviz]

dazwalsh said:

I would replace leaded glass for clear, and the units if budget allowed, and if possible remove all that wood stuck on the bricks, it's horribly fake.

Unfortunately it's hiding the transition between patterns in the brickwork, a neighbour had the wood replaced and you could see from the quality that the brickies knew it was going to be covered up !

[eps]

Lighten the colour of the wood.

Lighten the colour of the garage door (dark green I think you said)

Remove the 'ye olde' street lamp and modernise it or remove completely and don't replace.

[PositronicRay]

I'd leave it, it is what it is (to coin a phrase) by the end of the century unmolested 90s houses will probably be all the rage.

[Hard-Drive]

If you can photoshop it, I'd be tempted to try...

Gardenia windows/doorframes
Dark grey doors (still in gardenia frames)
Oak "cladding"

...or just leave as is...looks OK to me!

[g3org3y]

Galsia said:

I don't think that there is much that you could do to stop it looking like a 90s house. Besides, it actually looks really nice as it is.

Edited by Galsia on Saturday 3rd June 12:03

Agreed. Looks pretty decent as it is imo.

[Charlie Hoskins]

Pale painted render and cedar planking with grey frames and doors would bring it right up to date.

[PositronicRay]

Charlie Hoskins said:

Pale painted render and cedar planking with grey frames and doors would bring it right up to date.

And in 10yrs the fashion will have changed (imo grey frames, cladding and render are already starting to look dated)

[Hard-Drive]

PositronicRay said:

Charlie Hoskins said:

Pale painted render and cedar planking with grey frames and doors would bring it right up to date.

And in 10yrs the fashion will have changed (imo grey frames, cladding and render are already starting to look dated)

^This...

[FiF]

Don't particularly go for the Tudor look but it's what we are stuck with too, and considering it needs painting, plus a neighbour has just had two ridiculous quotes for doing his, plus they might lower themselves to fit him in in ten months.*

So considering this link plus the cladding. Click on photos bottom of post for full size version.

The rendered area and beams we would have to paint etc is less than in the second photo, for me it would be a couple of days work tops, if could still go up and down ladders easily, but due to knee injury that delight is no longer possible, but the thought of paying 800gbp plus materials for two days work doesn't appeal. Possibly three days if I bothered to scrape back and remove as far as possible the existing paint, which isn't needed as it happens. 800 GBP to paint that is taking the pee.

• * What is it, don't people want work? Apparently he got two quotes, one failed to turn up, another said he didn't want to do it. A fill in job.

Edited by FiF on Friday 9th June 10:16

[8-P]

As much as Id like to get rid of the painting job on mine I think the plastic wood just looks too much like plastic, esp with my upvc fascias and soffits.

Fortunately I can do all of mine in a day, although I since realised the wood stain needs 3 coats! Once every 5 years I can live with could easily be nearer 10 I reckon

[Charlie Hoskins]

Gbp ? have you not got one of these £ on your keyboard ?