90s mock tudorbethan colour

[Jessesgirl13]

Hi all,

We have a 90s mock tudorbethan house - similar to the attached image but slightly more elaborate boards.

We're about to have all windows replaced and boards painted etc, we're just unsure about what colour to do. I was originally going with grey windows and very dark grey/almost black boards, which I know looks good as other houses in the area have done similar. However I'm now having second thoughts. All houses on our street would have originally been done in Rosewood, and all have really kept this (with a slight variation on black/brown boards).

I'm starting to wonder whether I'm conforming to a modern trend by going down the grey windows route. And should I really keep it as rosewood as thats what the house was built with? It's such a big decision as the window colour will dictate the colour of the house for the foreseeable.

If it was me, I wouldn’t go rosewood. It may come back into fashion, but not for a while yet, I don’t think. I know what you mean about the fear of grey dating. Do you think light grey might look modern but date less? You could do medium grey boards if you wanted to keep the light theme, or dark grey boards would also look smart.

can you post a photo of a house that has been done with the dark grey?

you need to keep in mind that your roof is brown.

If you search mock tudor house grey windows, there a few images that come up.

Yes the roof needs to considered. Have you got a porch like the one in the photo?

One of my friends lives on an estate where the houses have a yellowish brick and cream render and people have started to put graphite windows and paining their render grey and it looks absolutely awfully because it doesn't tone I. With the rest of the house.

Unless you’re going to change the roof tiles I wouldn’t go grey. Grey and brown don’t really go together, also your brick looks the wrong tone for grey. I think you’re right about the dating too.

I've had a similar issue in past OP. The problem is your house colours are currently warm tones. Going for grey windows which are cool tones will clash with the warmth of the brick and roof tiles

Hm. As another option, would white look awful? I would worry a bit that we might be at the tail end of the grey fashion.

I wouldn’t put grey windows in when you’ve got a red/brown roof.

I’d consider a cream or even a sage. But I’d photoshop it first to see.what it looks like.

Honestly, I think the only windows that don't really look dated are real pak etc or plain white. White makes the house look so much brighter and also gives you so much choice for paint colours too. Grey cannock great on modern houses.

Me too. A house near me was renovated and they put in a light greeny/grey colour and it looks amazing. I think grey is going to date and I've seen a few people try and mesh the grey trend with houses like this. It just clashes and I think swaps one dates look for another. White might also be a good shout. I'd be thinking classic.

To answer a couple of questions, the roof is terracotta - which is one thing that concerns me. The render would be white and just the boards and windows dark grey.

Unfortunately white or light grey wouldn't work as there just wouldn't be enough contrast with the render. I also think they would be too different compared to the rest of the street.

I'm erring on the side of Rosewood at the min I think. As I really am concerned that the grey trend may be starting to run its course!

We are renovating a derelict property. A front section is tudor bethan with oak beams like the pic and the rest was slopdash with red brick at the base. The old single glazed, smashed, windows were leaded crittals.

We have gone with black aluminium in a heritage style. No leading. The aluminium is thinner than PVC and more in keeping to an older style property. It looks fabulous IMO.

A friend has PVC in rosewood and to me, it already looks very dated. I also feel the grey hype has died a death from the peak 10yrs ago.

Dark grey makes a house look very dark and forbidding. Stick with Brown.

I'm not sure about grey with that warm coloured brick. We had to make that choice on a ' red brick below and white render above' for windows and 'tudoring', and in the end went for white windows and and black and white 'tudoring'. I think the brown on yours looks good- warmer than our black and white; woudn't do for ours due to the particular red brick we have- much redder than yours. I mocked-up photos of ours with several colours for the windows, and though I'd fancied a 'colour', such as grey, or even green, it just looked wrong, so I gave it up. Could you take a photo and do some experimenting with it?

Sorry, but I think this current fad for grey is just awful.

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We have a similar colour of brick and tile to you and have replaced the rosewood windows with Painswick which is a green grey. We get lots of compliments about them and I think they're not massively fashionable so hoping they won't date! Theh are by a manufacturer called Residence (they're the residence 7 ones that we have). These are not my house but it shows how it works with red brick and white render.

Sorry and the other photo!

I wa showing to suggest sage as well. I don't think grey would work

@SollaSollew that's the exact colour I meant in my post. I love it! I think it's subtle yet adds something special. I'm going for this when we need new windows.

I would go with white windows, without the diamond leading and paint the beans a grey of your choice.

That way you can change the beam colour in the future (which would not be expensive) and not need to consider the window frame colour.

Sage green?

Correction: Beams not beans!
Everybody knows that beans are orange.

(And don't start about green beans, kidney beans etc.) 😉

You need to consider the brown roof and warm orange bricks of the lower parts. They are warm in tone and won't work with cold grey windows.

You might get away with a mushroomy colour like this - though the roof and bricks here are less brown than yours - but be warned, it will stick out like a sore thumb on the estate.

What about getting black windows? That would work with both browns and greys, so would allow you future flexibility if you decided to repaint the beams and exterior at some point in the future.

That's nice with your old soft red brick, but wouldn't work with our Accrington brick! - OP's brick isn't the same colour as either yours or mine, though. I favour using photos and changing the colours to see what works- anyone with Photoshop or similar should be able to do it. It saved us from getting colours which I thought would work, but actually wouldn't have done.