What colour windows?

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Struggling to choose between

-Agate Grey
-Sage Green
-Slate Grey

With a red brick 90s built house. Will be white on the inside, I just need to pick the outside colour. Which would you pick?

I used a visualiser tool (most big sellers have them online) when I was trying to choose.
Made it much easier to see rhe windows on my house rather than just a window.

White.

Slate grey etc are just going to date massively.

Just what I was going to say.

Hmmm that's why I was thinking a light grey/green tone like the agate grey... I don't like white at all sadly!

Not grey. It's so dated and depressing.

The agate grey is pretty timeless. I would avoid the anthracite colour as I think that will date. Chartwell is too green.

Agree.
I know white is a bit boring, but it's timeless and would be in keeping with the style of house.

Like this (from Pinterest). Its a more traditional timeless colour, more heritage.

That window is goddam awful ,its all frame and hardly any glass …, what is the point of the side windows 🤣

Going through similar here at the moment but we’re in a conservation area so we have to factor that in.

We’re avoiding purer light and dark grey because agree with others it will soon date. Some of the olive type greys (eg RAL 7002) are very nice. Black olive 6015 is really smart, and our current front runner is brown grey 7013. Some of the creamy greens are gorgeous, just tricky for us with planning. Biscuit and cream would look nice with your bricks too.

We’ve got a RAL colour sampler which is really useful and I’ve ordered further large samples from One Stop Colour Shop (they paint the colour onto an aluminium strip roughly the size of a brick) which are brilliant as you can hold them up to the brick. Rawlins Paints also do actual paint samples, so you can paint them onto a frame or larger piece of wood etc.

Most suppliers either do RAL colours or can give you a best match to…”whatever” RAL number.

I am going to a lot of trouble and a bit of cost too - but it’s going to be best part of 30k for us so want to get it right.

White

It's neutral, timeless, and like others had said - all these greys are probably going to date a lot over the coming years.

White. But I would like a chalky blue-grey and have never seen them.

We had the same dilema when we replaced ours. Red brick house. In the end we went for white as the Black / grey would have made the house look very dark from the front. Also we couldn't be bothered with the added cost of replacing all the sofits etc for no resaon and we were only replacing the front ones so the back would have been white. It would have set my OCD off having front and back 2 different colours even thought I know its irrational.

I'm liking pale agage grey at the moment but in 10 years that could look as dated as the dark grey does now. But does that matter?

I think I'm going to go for the agate grey! I agree it seems a pretty neutral timeless choice, it won't date like the darker grey.

Thanks everyone!

Yikes, 30k?

I have a large house but our quotes are half that!

I think it’s the doors and conservation area thing which are cranking the cost up. We have two sets of french doors and a back stable door. Total windows including a big bay is 16. We can’t go upvc (unless it’s a “heritage” one like Evolution or Res 9) because of the conservation area so we’re looking at timber (originals are timber) or aluminium Origin or similar in a colour that planners would accept.

It’s way more than we were expecting though, been quite a shocker.

Be really interesting to know which manufacturers are coming in lower for you if you don’t mind sharing. We’ve had three quotes and they’re all v similar.

That's a real shock.

But makes sense, if you can't go UPVC.

I'm in an AONB but luckily not an conservation area.

21 windows, inc a large bay, 2 doors, quotes ranged from £15-18k Inc VAT & fitting. But these are standard upvc.