Window Help - Show me your window styles/colours

[Too Late]

Hi all
In the process of replacing all the windows for the house build we are starting.
Window firm has come over and shown us a UPVc and Aluminium styles but deciding on a colour is very difficult

We are thinking of going for white inside and outside with recessed windows. We have brickwork on the ground floor then render on the 1st floor. No idea on colour of render yet, might be a shade of white

Does anyone have any photos or want to show off their windows?

This is a render we had done 24m ago and the house design has changed since then but it gives you an idea of what we are thinking

Thanks

[MattS5]

I think white looks timeless, classical and clean. Appeals to everyone, should the need to sell ever arise.

The current trend for very dark grey/black, looks, in my eyes, incredibly depressing and miserable. (even more so when paired with fascias and soffits etc)

[outnumbered]

Our house was new 10 years ago, and was an early adopter of RAL 7016...

I'm not necessarily recommending the colour, but we do have decent quality aluminium-clad wooden windows, and they have been really good, absolutely no maintenance at all in that time. The frames are thinner than uPVC equivalents, the aluminium cladding protects them very well from weathering, and they have a quality feel when you use them, which uPVC rarely does.

[sherman]

White UPVC for me.
I would always go for windows with as much glass area as possible. Windows with a '+'in the glass like in the OPs pic are quite old fashioned now..

The door is cream on the outside but white on the inside.

[Aluminati]

We had the lower ones made in Poland, timber, white on the inside. Uppers were made in UK, Accoya.



Which are better than the originals imo…

[MattS5]

[quote=Aluminati]We had the lower ones made in Poland, timber, white on the inside. Uppers were made in UK, Accoya.



I do like that colour for frames. Had that colour in a house 10 years ago, but they were pinted hardword, faced south and the paint just flaked like crazy requiring re-painting every 4 years, which got rather expensive

[Aluminati]

MattS5]luminati said:

We had the lower ones made in Poland, timber, white on the inside. Uppers were made in UK, Accoya.



I do like that colour for frames. Had that colour in a house 10 years ago, but they were pinted hardword, faced south and the paint just flaked like crazy requiring re-painting every 4 years, which got rather expensive

9 years old currently. Technos paint system.

[Escort3500]

Aluminati said:

MattS5]luminati said:

We had the lower ones made in Poland, timber, white on the inside. Uppers were made in UK, Accoya.



I do like that colour for frames. Had that colour in a house 10 years ago, but they were pinted hardword, faced south and the paint just flaked like crazy requiring re-painting every 4 years, which got rather expensive

9 years old currently. Technos paint system.

Looks great, and so much nicer than uPVC in white with clumsy heavy-section frames and casements

[jules_s]

I'm pretty sure in my career I've put in all of the spectrum of colours outside.

They all date tbh.

However white outside or inside would be my last choice.

As an aside - a house near me had dark brown pvcu recently, they are now green but are currently being painted dark brown...

[FlossyThePig]

The oldest part of our house dates from about 1850, with the last extension about 1910.

Over the years we have had most of the widows replaced using Timber Windows.

[AlexC1981]

Does anyone know if black uPVC windows fade? I've seen faded black composite doors and they look awful, but never windows. I've seen charcoal grey windows before, so perhaps those are all faded black ones!