What is the next 'anthracite grey'?

[toastedcat]

I keep reading that "anthracite grey" windows will date properties in the next few years. What, in your opinion, is the next big trend to replace it? And what is a good alternative?

Anything but grey is ok in my book.

I love ours tbh but they’re in a new build so
no concern over dating of property

I’d go white if worried about dating

I honestly think it's down to the style of house and whether it looks good or not. Some new builds locally have grey/black frames and they look lovely because the houses have some nods to Art Deco

I drove past a lovely 30's bay-fronted house this morning that's having building work done to it.

Oh dear lord, the grey window frames they are putting in look beyond awful. Talk about wrecking the ambience of a period property. They don't suit the house at all and it looks truly appalling.

I've always had white which is easy to coordinate but I love black ones that I see on SM.

This. 100%.

How awful. What vandalism.

i dont mind a light grey....a lot of our neighbours have gone for the dark grey and also painted the whole outside with same colour....it looks drab and dated after a few years....awful....

We went with anthracite when it was unusual.
We spent so long doing our extension that it half the town had them before we were finished!
Ours is a standard 80s property though with no character.

I hate how character is removed now.
I heard from our window fitter that country cream is the new trend colour.

We’ve gone for anthracite on sliders in back extension. It’ll probably date but it’s kind of self contained. Neighbour’s went for white in similar extension and it looks good.

We just had our Victorian terrace 1-bed front windows and door refurbed. They've been done with black frames/stonework and black and white tiling up the path. I was skeptical at first but it actually looks really good!

I'm partial to Agate grey

It definitely depends on the house, the area and the individual windows. I live near a lot of 30s red-brick and render semis and we have many window types locally. The only frames that seem 'ugly' to me are ones with very thick upvc frames, whatever colour they are. As most of these thicker frames are white I associate white windows with being more likely to look wrong and dated. There are some more modern white windows that look better, but generally all the anthracite, paler greys, cream, stone/beige/taupe colours and chartwell green windows look preferable to me as the houses are generally more modern and fresh (newly painted render etc), and tend to have more attractive front doors and better maintained driveways and front gardens. We even have blue window frames nearby - some pale, some mid (different houses) - which look good too.

I quite like all the variety. It's a relatively affluent area (~£700-£800k for a semi with a loft conversion) and somehow all the styles look nice together as they're part of a modernisation of the whole frontage. Whether the frames will date badly or not (and I think that's a lot less likely than for eg 80s dark wood frames, or old style aluminium windows, which can actually seem quite modern nowadays), in around 20-25 years they'll all be being changed again anyway so it's not the end of the world.

A good alternative is ... to not go for 'trendy'. If you are never in fashion then you can't fall out of fashion either.

Classic white gets my vote.

Grey windows are popular because they give a similar look to aluminium windows but much cheaper. I think grey will continue to be popular for windows and doors. In terms of interiors there’s a lot more colour and especially warm colours like cream and beige.

Chartwell Green seems to be the colour of choice in recent renovations round here (rural)

Agate grey looks like undercoat to me.