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Paint Renovating Exterior

Ideas needed for outside of House

11 months ago

We are looking for help with ideas for our house in Auckland, how to spruce it up.

We had wondered about painting the roof and changing the brown Shiplap on the front of the house for weatherboards, (to suit the weatherboards around the back of the house). But we are not too sure what colours would be best and what to do with the block (paint or render, etc). Also whether to keep the red brick or paint it, bag it, etc. We are thinking about putting a garage door in front of where the car is parked.

The fence will need redoing at some point as well. The whole project will possibly be over 2-3 years.

We’d appreciate any helpful hints and tips anyone might have.

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11 months ago
So its a corner section ? It looks to have good bones , but it is dated , but personally I'd focus on areas you didn't mention .

Those tall windows are a great feature , but it looks like there's a fence hiding it from the street , and I'm trying to work out if theres a film or something on them ?

Anyway , I'd leave tghe bricks , probably change some of the windows ( such as those '6' ones to the left of the tall windows , and the 3 large windows , again split into '6' each , along the other side of the house facing the other street . I'd go charcoal or black frames , and either 1 large pane each window , or maybe 4 , with quite chunky crsosses if going for '4' . Thats because the rest of the windows ( I'm assuming wooden ) I'd also paint in charcoal or black , and those frames look chunky .

Terraces , drivway , paths I'd chemical clean and waterblast , the entire base paint that charcoal -- at present it seems to be a mix of white and bare concrete .

Similarly , the fences seem a mix of a browny charcoal with a side of slime haha , and natural , and white -- waterblast and paint it all charcoal . Do the gardens -- lots of plants , bushy brown leaves and spikey green leaves and different heights and use some imagination .

Theres nothing too much wrong with that pathway in the stones , except its 50 years old or whatever . Waterblast , but I'd look at doing a solid pathway at some stage .

As a basic design -- dark base , red brick and dark windows around the middle , white gutters , white fences in the property , charcoal fences around the edge , and the mainly greens of the gardens . $10-20k , depending on how many windows you need to/want to replace , etc .
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11 months ago
@pottsy99 - thanks for the ideas!

The film on the corner window is temporary until the blinds arrive.

If we painted the windows a dark colour, what colour would you suggest to paint the weatherboard/ shiplap?
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User
11 months ago
The shoplap looks to be the rear wall only , and not overly visible , but as a generalisation I'd stick to red/white/black , so an off-white for the timber and all trims , the red brick , and dark windows and base . Any visible doors I'd probably do either red or a reddish orange , not quite burnt orange .

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