Oh, Rachelle, I'm so sorry, after all your research and planning and bravery!! Well, there's is nothing wrong with cream, but I completely understand how you wanted to climb out of that box of one colored crayons, lol. It is what it is, I do hope that you'll be able to build your pergola and I also hope you can introduce a bit of color with your door, this color is from sherwin Williams, it's SW 6480 lagoon, it would be beautiful with a cream house color and a terracotta roof. Good luck, and I'd love to see your final result, please post a picture at the end of project. And I'm glad you're upbeat and looking at the "sunny side" :)

I'm choosing what the aluminium window sill should look like on our new windows but I'm not sure how much it should protrude from the house and whether the sill should be capped or not. At the moment our window sills are specced to be 75mm wide with 32mm protruding from the rendering of the house. I'm wondering if it would look better with a shorter sill and protruding less from the rendering, only by a 10-15mm or so. I'm also leaning towards being open and not capped. Our windows will be a dark grey contemporary wooden windows with aluminium cladding and the walls of our house are rendered and painted white. I'm look at these images for inspiration. Bearing in mind that our windows will be against white render and not brick or wood. I feel like the open ends better because they don't feel 'fake', and have more of a form follows function principle. What your thoughts are? Do you have a particular opinion about them?

here you go.....currently brown but guttering needs replacing too so I'm thinking a total change. oh thinks black but I'm wondering if grey would be good. we would have to change garage door colour too but think we could wrap them

I would have thought that was something the window company would do as a selling point?