Hi - I love your window colour.

I have a suggestion for you to help narrow your options.

1. Buy a Color Muse online from Amazon. Approx £55. If ordered tomorrow it may well arrive on Saturday. Very simple to use. Takes seconds to
   Objectively measure the key colour attributes of your windows/brick/roofing. It send the results to your phone or better still IPad.

2. This will tell you -
   to which Hue Family each colour belongs.
   (Powerful stuff - as then we can find its colour relatives/neighbours/lovers)
   We can translate this info into paint colours which can be used to help specify or narrow down options for paint/render colour)

Value - how light or dark the colour is.

Chroma - how colourful or near neutral each colour is.

LRV - how much light each colour reflects & absorbs.

All of this provides info to help find lighter or darker versions of your window colour. Or create classical colour harmonies to work with it. The information means you have the facility to work across different companies to find the colour which works with your facade and pleases you most.

It’s a new mode of working with colour for most home owners but the science behind it has a track record of 100+ years.

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P.s. I forgot to mention that ALL, yes, ALL, whites/greys/blacks/‘beiges’/‘greiges’
/‘taupes’ etc belong to an identifiable & measurable hue family. If it’s measurable, why guess?

Wow thank you so much for your suggestions! The amount of accessible technology and science blows my mind! I’ll definitely look into it- thank you

Marylee's suggestion sound like a good one. I love the colour of your windows and my first thought would be to go for the same hue but a lot lighter so that you can see a difference. Do you know the RAL colour?

Hi, thank you. they are 1019 ‘grey beige’

Working on something for you, just to get possibilities started.

Colour Suggestions

Colour Suggestion Comparisons

Was the colour and finish defined at the planning permission stage? Materials often are. Changing it might mean problems with Planning department unless you check with them

L = Lightness (Value) The lower the number, the darker it is.
C = Chroma. This measures colourfulness. The lower the no.
the nearer to neutral. The higher the no. = more colour.
h = Hue Angle. This tells you to which hue family it belongs.
a = Positive no. = redness
b =. Positive no. = yellowness

We use the data to compare the colours. Where are they similar? How are they different?

As you see all the colours have much more yellow than red. This is the reason I suggested buying a Muse to measure the other finishes on the exterior.
It gives chance to check, that although we can see these colours technically work with the window colour, they don’t clash with the other finishes. E.g. if the brick on the house were very red in comparison. Knowing the data would allow
you to adjust for that.

These aren’t in anyway a definitive list, but a selection to get you thinking. Examining the numbers will show why they should harmonise with the original colour.

If you find they have too much chroma (colourfulness) for your liking, take a look at F&B Cornforth White & Little Green French Grey.

Whichever colours you choose in the end I would double check them against your other fixed finishes & test the final line-up on lining paper to see how they cope with the light.

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P.s. it would be great if you could share your final outcomes. 🤓

P.s. I would measure the roofing tiles too given half a chance. So you can assure yourself all colours on the exterior work well together. (Even if a roof tile looks grey to you, it still belongs to one of those hue families,,,,why fight with it when you can harmonise?) 🤓

I see you have changed the wide typical 70s bedroom windows. Does this mean you are rendering over all the brickwork or will some be left exposed?

Marylee you are awesome! Thank you so much

Cushion over - yeh we will have to render all over apart from the front pillars that will be cladded. Lots of breeze blocks to cover! Thank you

Cushion cover Also we didn’t think about planning so much as we got conflicting info- I’ll look into this hopefully I won’t have to reapply! Thanks for the warning though

Finally, I can highly recommend colours from this company. Looks like they are producing sets of these stone colours for purchase. See them on Instagram

Looks like a great house. 👌

Do you maybe have ‘before’ photos?

Would be great to eventually see the entire transformation.

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Ah! You’ve made a great transformation already.

No expert, but I think your architect did a fine job.