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.

There's a whole estate of those houses over the road from me. Some of them have re-coloured windows but to be honest they don't all look good. The dark brown is so tied into the architecture of the houses and area it doesn't really look dated in the way that dark brown plastic windows on a 1900 or 1930 house do.
I would be looking for a classy deep brown and make the most of it.

The grey/green/fake light oak windows have all come and gone, I'm sure the dark grey you see everywhere will be next to go out of style.

From my short survey on Google, I would say dark brown (as long as it's really deep) looks OK, black looks OK, white looks OK but looks a bit ordinary/detracts from the house style. Other random colours look like a misfit with the timbering.