Replacing windows - colour?

[Bluesheep8]

We are in the process of getting quotes to have our doors and windows replaced. It's an old stone house and we're thinking we'd like the textured/grain effect upvc rather than smooth.
In terms of colour, I want something other than white and I'm thinking cream. I'm steering away from the pale green or grey that seem popular as I feel they won't go with the house. Any exoerience/thoughts about cream?

Wow that was quick, thank you! This is the stone

I wanted cream windows as I found the white much too harsh, but when I tried samples against the bricks it was very yellow looking.

To get the softer off white/cream did not seem possible or very expensive.

I ended up with greige.

Thanks for replying. I'm going to get a sample and have a good look at it next to the stone. Like you, I don't want it to look yellowy. Greige sounds nice and there is a kind of stoney colour available but as a pp mentioned, I don't think there'd be enough of a contrast with the old stone of the house.

When we were trying to decide this on our last house, we actually painted one of the back windows in the different colour choices we were thinking of (it had three panes and we painted in 3 different colours) and that really helped us make up our minds with lots of squinting and taking photos in different lights. The samples they give you are often so small.

Yes the sample swatches are small. How did you manage to get paint in the exact shades of the upvc frames though?

@Bluesheep8

Yes the sample swatches are small. How did you manage to get paint in the exact shades of the upvc frames though?

We were trying to decide between different Farrow and Ball shades basically because our local window guy said he could get any of them for us in upvc. So we got tester pots, tried French Grey and Mouse back and a few shades of cream. It was very easy to make up our minds once we did that and our final choice was French grey which looked amazing with our pale stone house. In a different house now, sob...

I've just checked and the company we've had s quote from can get the upvc windows in different colours if I supply the RAL code...this could take a while!

Please can I ask if supplying your own RAL code for the colour made a huge difference to the price?

The French grey windows were more expensive than the usual white ones, but not by a huge amount I don't think, maybe another £1,000 though they can be with some companies. Ours was a local family business who didn't usually do 'fancy' colours (Selby glass in Selby, North Yorkshire - fantastic job!) so they maybe didn't know to charge fancy prices like some places do. If you look on Selby Glass FB page our house photos are on there from Feb 2019 and you can see the before and after.

It was very expensive for my windows 10% extra on the total.

Which is why we ended up going with the standard range colours as in aluminium they were not too bad.

The £1,000 was probably around 10%, but I actually thought that was reasonable!

How about black! Could look very modern and interesting?

Thanks for the replies and suggestions, i agree, black would look really modern and striking on the right house, I want a softer more traditional look though so that's not really what I'm after.
I'm going to consider some F and B options I think, whilst still keeping the window company's own cream in mind.

If you plan to clean your brick, they’ll come up cream so I would avoid cream windows if you’re wanting a contrast.
If you’re keeping it how it is, cream will look lovely.
I do like sage green with yellow brick but I see you’ve already discounted that.
Do you have cream cills under the window? I can’t make out the colour?

Take a photo of your house and colour in the windows in different colours to get an idea of the effect.

When we ordered ours ral colours were another 10% but also if you wanted a different colour inside and out (e.g. white inside) it was another 10% on top of that.

I have cream which is more of a peach than yellow. I'm also a fan of sage green. I don't like black/anthracite except maybe on modern houses.

I am in a stone farmhouse and put cream in.
It looks lovely, not as harsh as white. We have had loads of compliments. I'll get a picture uploaded.

Thanks for replies.
No we're not planning to have the stone cleaned. We did think about it but it wouldn't be in keeping with surrounding properties and besides, I kind of like the 'patina' (The house is 120 years old)
The stone lintels are painted a v warm dark cream atm but can easily be changed.

I would go for the cream then, it’ll look stunning.

I’d go with the suggestion of doing some testers on the back windows. It’s a lot of money and disruption and you want to get it right. Tester paint pots are the best money you will ever spend.

IMHO A distinctive / personal statement colour will devalue your house. I’d choose something that blends in.

Tester pots all the way!

I've got wooden windows, but repainting them still costs a lot of money - I ended up with a very light grey/off white against my warm light stone - it works very well and doesn't look like the very white cheap UVPC windows, you can tell they are still wood iyswim

Here is mine.
Previous to this, we had dark stained wood. These windows have really lifted the house.

@NiceTwin

Thanks for the pic - that's exactly what I'm after!