Sliding doors colour choice. Not black, white or anthracite...

5 years ago

We’re about to order some sliding doors with slim 20mm frames for a 4.4m gap, plus a matching pivot window.

I’ve looked at the colours and prefer the soft grey-greens and grey-blues rather than black or anthracite. It’s a victoria house with yellow brick at the back, we don’t want an industrial look and would prefer the window and door frames to fade away rather than stand out.

Two questions:

Has anyone got any pictures they could show me of sliding doors or windows in a green grey or blue grey? We are looking at RAL 7038 but not sure yet.

Also, more of a general colour question - Can I have a blue grey decor scheme for the kitchen and ground floor, but green grey on the doors? Or will that look odd and mismatched? The green greys work better with the yellow brick but I‘m worried they will look strange near a blue grey kitchen. Is it more important to match or to have the right colour for the location...?

Thanks!

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Juliet Docherty

5 years ago

Well that would be the obvious solution. We didn't because it would have been quite a bit more expensive. This is mine from the outside.

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Emily
5 years ago
Personally I think why we are seeing so much black and anthracite is that they are actually much more “unobtrusive” than people intuitively think. But I think the main reason for that is just because they are dark. I wonder if you might try the favoured blue grey but take it to a more saturated and so darker level? I know you said not industrial but tbh going very slim frames is not traditional so any colour on the frames will give a modern technology feel. But in any case, I’m liking the sound of it all!
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minipie
Original Author
5 years ago
Thanks Emily for the reply! Yes I guess dark colour is supposed to make things recede. And dark blue greys definitely go nicely with yellow brick. My worry is that our extension decor will be mostly fairly pale (sort of scandi) and so I think they would stand out more in that conext as they would be the only dark bit, whereas if the kitchen was navy or charcoal they would blend in? Tricky!

To add to the complication we‘re going to have some internal glazed dividing walls (bit like Crittal but made of wood and glass not steel) and not sure whether to match the exterior doors colour or the kitchen colour...
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Juliet Docherty
5 years ago
Minipie, this is a tricky one. The greeney grey would look lovely with your yellow brick or even a more yellowed grey, there are lots of houses where I live with yellow brick and ones with warm grey pale windows look lovely. I recently replaced all of mine and had the same colour inside and out. I went for a warm green grey (F&B Light Grey 17) and the same inside. As most of my neutrals inside are from the same 'hue' family it was ok, but if they had been 'bluer' as you say it could have been tricky. If the tones are the same (how light or dark) and the colours mismatched it is very noticeable. If the colours are different then the tones need to be a bit different too. I would be inclined to make a selection that works with your inside colours first and then actually paint the samples on the outside to see if they work.
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minipie
Original Author
5 years ago
Thanks colourhappy! oh dear, they probably would end up being about the same tone, since a kind of pale to mid tone is what we want for both doors and kitchen.

Is it better if they are clearly different colours (ie one is definitely a green and one definitely a blue) rather than if they nearly match but not quite? RAL 7038 is really quite green, much more so than F&B Light Grey...

I might look into whether they can paint the doors and window different colours inside and out ... though that could look odd on the pivot door.. They also do British Standard as well as RAL so off to look at those.
minipie
Original Author
5 years ago
Yes it probably will be won't it (cry). Yours look lovely, definitely makes me think we want a greeny tone on the outside at least.
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OnePlan
5 years ago
After a quick google search - this was the colour I had in my mind after reading your post - a brownybronze ?!
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Emily
5 years ago
I like that Oneplan :)
minipie
Original Author
5 years ago
Thanks OnePlan! I like that on the outside but not sure if it will work on the inside with the colours of the kitchen. Though might well work better than a greeny colour.
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Origin - Doors and Windows
5 years ago
Hi minipie,

Have you found a supplier for your sliding doors yet? We'd be happy to help you. Please take a look at our sliding doors here: http://bit.ly/origin-sliding-doors

and our case studies may help you to visualise your colour options as we have fitted products in numerous RAL shades: http://bit.ly/origin-case-studies

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