Green windows on stone cottage

[Mayhemmumma]

Does anyone have green/grey windows they would be willing to share a photo of?

Updating my ancient windows in a stone cottage and I like the softer look of green rather than white paint but there's so many colours to choose from!

Farrow and Ball French Grey, many of the stone houses here have this.
Our local stone is quite grey though, Cotswold Stone is more honey coloured so I’m not so sure it’d work so well.

My husband and I were discussing window paint the other day. We originally thought green but are now leaning towards cream. I think it suits the honey coloured stone better. It’s also the traditional colour in this area. There are also a lot of green windows about, which is putting us off in a contrary way.

Maybe this is why it's not easy as it's a honey coloured stone - thanks both this is food for thought.

Cream is an idea ...

Ah, but which shade of cream!

That where we are now.

We used Farrow and Ball Green Smoke on a previous house (Georgian, thatched built from Shaftesbury greenstone) and it looked so lovely we chose the same paint for our next house (a grey-ish rendered, Arts and Crafts style).

Our current 400+ year old house is stone too - albeit grey with some red brick work around a few of the windows - and we went for Little Greene Silt this time as it looks good paired with the oak windows on our extension too (pics attached, although small window not yet painted when I took the second one).

That's lovely! Thank you for the photo.

This is the stone work on my house..

It's very old!

Also wondering if windows should be white inside or do you keep the theme running inside?

Chartwell Green is a very popular colour for doors and windows and might be what you are looking for.

Our front windows (casements in accoya, which we had made in 2021 to replace the inappropriate 1960s top opening windows) were colour-matched by our joiner in non-Little Greene Silt eggshell. The insides were done in the same colour (I believe he spray painted them).

This didn't coordinate well with the colour schemes we have going on internally so I've repainted them. We don't have any white joinery here, so I used whatever colour the rest of the woodwork is - for example one room has Little Greene Sage skirting etc so that's what I've used for the inside of those windows. But if you have white joinery I'd have the insides of the windows white too.

Look up Nigel hunt who is an interior designer they've recently done a cottage and also one place with green window frames ( look on Instagram)

Just to update we've chosen F&B Pigeon, less green than initially wanted and suits stone better.

@LibertyLily Can I ask why you went with accoya windows? My mum is having new windows done and was offered this wood. But we've never heard of it... Are you happy with it?