Recommend me a colour for our fence

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We’re replacing a fence. 6ft along the side and back of our house. Victorian semi. Won’t be seen from the street as we have a hedge on the outside.

Replaced the windows with anthracite grey & thinking of painting the fence a similar colour. Thoughts?

Also, please recommend a brand. I’m thinking everyone’s ‘go-to’ is Ronseal?

Thank you in advance.

What are planning on having in your garden? Plants, patio, play area?
I have a sage green fence (colour called Willow I think) & it blends in nicely with the plants.
Our neighbours have grey & no plants, Astro turf, patio - it looks too harsh to me.

Thank you @APurpleSquirrel

Very much a work in progress but will have a mix of trees & shrubs. Definitely some colour too. Part of the area will be seating/patio.

The best paint ever is Zinsser All Coat Exterior. Self-priming - amazing coverage - comes in matt, satin or gloss, water-soluble 15 year guarantee comes in loads and loads of colours. The paint is an absolute dream to work with - would use nothing else. 2 coats and you have a really solid richly intense colour finish.
As for colour - I love black, really looks quite amazing against green - but colour's a style thing.

Oh please don't use grey. British winters are glum enough as it is without looking at a sea of grey outside. See also wet slate chippings. Depressingly dull.

That light sage a pp suggests is nice, otherwise go for a natural oak colour. Both of those will blend into the background and you won't notice they are there. You don't want to make a feature of a fence, you want it to be camouflaged and not noticeable. Natural colours will help with that.

Also look at Cuprinol Garden Shades.

I wouldn't go a dark colour like grey or blue or dark green, but of course colours down to personal taste. I would choice something like much lighter like 'willow'

Mine is stained black and looks awesome in a small garden with tropical type plants against it.

A grey fence on a grey day, can't think of anything more depressing! I also think anthracite grey has had its day (although I really like it on window frames!). I'd go for wooden but painted with a sealant to protect the colour, or a shade of green. Try to imagine your garden in the winter, do you really want to be looking out at a bare garden with a grey fence?

Not grey. There are so many grey fences round here and they look miserable. There's enough grey in the UK as it is. Grey with concrete posts especially dreary. I have sage painted fences and they look lovely, especially with bright orange or bright pink flowers next to them, or purple shrubs/plants. Well they did until the neighbour painted the other side dark grey which seems to have seeped through and dirtied the sage, never mind the drips...

How about each panel a different pastel colour similar to beach huts?

Our is dark green, and we've added colourful bunting and some hanging baskets on one fence, and small, hanging colourful plant pots (Temu, about £9 for 10 I think) and coloured lights on the other side. Brick wall at the bottom, with tall trees.

I should add - one of the neighbours has got a turquoise fence, to match their shed

Crikey! Seems like I shouldn’t be painting it grey then! 😆
I suppose I’d like it to look modern against the extension going up next year. I also feel if I paint it a ‘colour’ then it will definitely make the fence a ‘feature’ rather than blending in (to the drab, dreary West of Scotland vibe!) Not sure I want metres & metres of a colourful fence! But maybe I’m wrong & you’re all right?

Thank you for your input. Plenty for me to think about…

Also great advice re brand to use @Nearlyroses 👍🏻

We didn't paint our fence at all - it's treated timber which is just faded wood colour so it's definitely unobtrusive and mostly covered in plants anyway.
If I had to paint a fence then I'd probably go for the subtle sage green.

Rust-oleum is fantastic fence paint. One coat, rich colours.

My neighbour has a grey fence (battleship grey it looks like); when teamed with the half astroturf, half patio & no plants it's very reminiscent of a prison recreation yard....

How about Farrow & Ball’s Invisible Green?

@APurpleSquirrel 😆👌🏻

Definitely black, looks amazing against the green and colour of the flowers.

Photo didn't attach, sorry!

Anything except grey. If it wasn't so outing I'd post you a photo of my neighbour's garden. Bloody awful. Even the kid's climbing frame is grey. Looks like a concentration camp.

I really want to paint our fences dark grey or even black but my dh is not keen at all. I think we may end up painting them a dark oak but I know I don't want them green or a red based colour. Or the bright 'pine' colour I've seen.
I feel green just makes the plants merge whereas the dark grey or black makes them stand out.

Army green

or Tartan.

To be fair, while I love my black fence I think it works because I have subtropical plants against it that are bright green and still there in the winter. And other colourful stuff in the garden. It's a bit Moroccan courtyard influenced with bright pots etc, rather than a lawn.

I would not go for a dark colour if in the winter you aren't going to have something bright against it. If you do go dark I would go for black over grey.

Thank you all. Would anyone mind perhaps sharing a picture? I’ve been all over Pinterest but still not inspired…

Everintroverte I love that beautiful strong fence and colour. We have very dark bitter chocolate colour and that looks good too.