southaussie

Have we made a big paint mistake and is there a rescue option?

southaussie
3 years ago

Hi all,

We've had our roof painted in the past fortnight and now we're worried we've made a big and expensive mistake. It was manor red and after a lot of indecision we went with shale grey (also contemplated wallaby).

We also changed the gutters from classic cream to monument.

Now, we wonder if the roof is too cool on the colour spectrum for a very warm house. If we just had red brick it'd be OK, but the sandstone is throwing us.

How would you rescue this?? Happy to repaint gutters, windows and fascia (even the carport roller door) but it'd be great if we didn't have to repaint the roof. Is it the roof that's the main problem, or the gutters, or both?

Any advice gladly accepted :)



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Bright sunny day (top two pics) versus overcast day.


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We think the shale grey looks great from the back as it's all red brick and black doors/windows.



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