What do you think of these exterior colours?
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I uploaded a photo of my house to ChatGPT and I've been trying out some colour schemes. It's a 70s house with a white garage door and plain glass white aluminium widows. Well overdue a makeover.
The front door is on a porch on the side of the house, but facing the front and set further back than the image shows. If would probably get the front door in either green or white.
The front door is on a porch on the side of the house, but facing the front and set further back than the image shows. If would probably get the front door in either green or white.
Thanks for the votes so far 
I've been faffing over this decision for ages.
For context, here is the actual house from when I first bought it three years ago. The exterior hasn't changed much. One of the things I don't like about the white garage door is that it really seems to dominate the front.
I'm changing all the fascia boards and soffits too. I tried those in black in ChatGPT, but wasn't keen. I've run out of edits on ChatGPT for today, but if you have any other ideas, let me know and I'll try them tomorrow.
I've been faffing over this decision for ages.For context, here is the actual house from when I first bought it three years ago. The exterior hasn't changed much. One of the things I don't like about the white garage door is that it really seems to dominate the front.
I'm changing all the fascia boards and soffits too. I tried those in black in ChatGPT, but wasn't keen. I've run out of edits on ChatGPT for today, but if you have any other ideas, let me know and I'll try them tomorrow.
Garage door doesn't matter: deviating from white windows does!
Most of our (rental) houses have white. It is clean/crisp and not pretending to be something it isn't. The brown wood effect varies in how convincing it is. If you do go with brown, have white inside.
Don't think the leaded effect suits the property at all.
Most of our (rental) houses have white. It is clean/crisp and not pretending to be something it isn't. The brown wood effect varies in how convincing it is. If you do go with brown, have white inside.
Don't think the leaded effect suits the property at all.
You also need to think about what it will be like looking out through the windows. This is a serious comment!
We used to have windows with astragal bars (horizontal bars across the middle of the windows) and were concerned how the house would look without those bars, so I did a mock up of the exterior and we made the decision not to have them. What I hadn't anticipated was the huge difference it would make looking out of the windows from the inside. The bars had been at about my eye level and when I was (e.g.) standing at the kitchen sink, looking out at the garden and I now have an uninterrupted view
We never considered 'leaded' windows because we felt those might make us feel as if we were in some sort of prison. That's just how we felt — others might not feel the same.
We used to have windows with astragal bars (horizontal bars across the middle of the windows) and were concerned how the house would look without those bars, so I did a mock up of the exterior and we made the decision not to have them. What I hadn't anticipated was the huge difference it would make looking out of the windows from the inside. The bars had been at about my eye level and when I was (e.g.) standing at the kitchen sink, looking out at the garden and I now have an uninterrupted view
We never considered 'leaded' windows because we felt those might make us feel as if we were in some sort of prison. That's just how we felt — others might not feel the same.
True it will darken it a little. The kitchen is at the front and it also has a side window, so it won't be too bad. I might leave the leadwork off the rear and sides. I'll have to see how it affects the price. My original intention was to have a centre fanlight and two side hinged with equal sightline, but I think I will lose the centre fanlight in favour of astragal bars as they are thinner.
I'm surprised at how popular the green garage door is. The house to the right has red and the house opposite has golden oak. The pair of semis to the left, the closest has a garage conversion and the other has a blue garage door, so green would fit nicely and goes well with the brown tiles on the front. I'll do a render of the green garage with vertical planks like on the wooden door later.
I'm surprised at how popular the green garage door is. The house to the right has red and the house opposite has golden oak. The pair of semis to the left, the closest has a garage conversion and the other has a blue garage door, so green would fit nicely and goes well with the brown tiles on the front. I'll do a render of the green garage with vertical planks like on the wooden door later.
I think white fascia and windows is absolutely fine if it's in keeping with the surroundings. White windows can look cheap but generally they just look logical. Other colours can date, attract sex people or orange reality TV celebs.
As for the garage door that is an easier decision as changing the colour later is easy. I'd personally, do the windows and soffits first then just go and stand and look at the refreshed frontage and decide what colour to paint the garage door.
I'm assuming 'green' is appearing popular because nutjobs still consider it an unlucky colour and they'll be too scared to cross the drive to knock on the front door to sell some tarot cards?
As for the garage door that is an easier decision as changing the colour later is easy. I'd personally, do the windows and soffits first then just go and stand and look at the refreshed frontage and decide what colour to paint the garage door.
I'm assuming 'green' is appearing popular because nutjobs still consider it an unlucky colour and they'll be too scared to cross the drive to knock on the front door to sell some tarot cards?
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