new sliding door frame colours - white, grey, black

[sacbina]

need to decide on frame colour for new ultra slim sightline doors. was going for white as exterior is white, current upvc windows are white. seemed obvious choice but then it struck me that lots of recent property programs have shown doors with grey or black frames

am I missing something or is it a fashion thing? or do they frame the picture of the garden better??

confused and undecided now!

Neighbours have has grey/blue metal windows installed. Looks awesome - yes, is very contemporary - but the house looks more 'classy' than the plastic white frames. It's a 40 or so yr pls house - white windows would have looked very 'frumpy' on the house.

We have recently had an extension and the new windows and doors are slate grey aluminium. This is a set of bifolds, a single door with windows at the side and a fixed window on the side of the house. The rest of our house is Victorian and has white painted sash windows. The extension is quite contemporary, but it looks good together (or so I think). I'm not sure it would look so good if the extension had a mixture of white and grey though....

Marmitelover, that's a very similar set up to what I am considering for my extension. Would you care to share a photo?

black and grey might look fashionable today, but there is a view that nothing looks worse than something that was fashionable five years ago.

White will look as ordinary in five or ten years as it does today.

I don't suppose you mean wooden ones that you can repaint. They could be anything you want.

I have had one company tell me that it has been scientifically proven that the eye ignores darker colours when looking through glass, meaning black or dark grey best, and another company tell me the exact opposite, so white...

As I will have some white windows on same floor and above, I have gone with my instinct that white will look best when in garden. In showrooms, looking through them, I couldn't really ignore light or dark, as I was looking through them to see which one became invisible , so too focused on the sightlines, iyswim. So I really couldn't differentiate.

Try looking through light & dark frames yourself, and see if either seem less pronounced.

Pinkie - here you go:

instinct says white so going to stick with that. why don't I just stick with my first decision instead of all this faffing about !

marmitelover. thank you. Very nice think i'll be doing a similar colour.