Help with heritage colour scheme

You don’t have kids yet do you Tom?
I will do a drive by on 95 Kemp as you suggest.

 

I do recall it, yeah. I remember now too (gee time flies) that we owe you & hubby a lunch when you’re up next.
I’ll look at the dark grey Ironstone. Cheers.

 

The dark parts here are Ironstone. https://www.realestate.com.au/property/5-popondetta-rd-emerton-nsw-2770

 

I’ve got one and another on the way, he’s not old enough to give me grief yet

 

Monument roof

This is my pick for colours, woodland is a greenish hue when placed next to a Greycard.

 

I've come to learn by the experience of my kids and grand-kids that you never have anything white that stays white for any length of time - no white leather lounges, no white walls, no white bed-spreads.....and so on

 

I don't mind the heritage colours-ish ... but modernise them. We used a combination of Monument, Ironstone and Ruby Red for the last house (not a heritage) - and next home will be heritage in Windspray with white trim (methinks).

I work on the theory that Colorbond spend a small fortune getting their colours right, so I might as well pinch them.

What is dating the house is the cream windows/screen and the brick - guess there's no chance of painting the brick then?

I have seen a eggplant (aubergine) purple used, instead of the red, on a heritage home and it looked pretty good with the cream

 

Yeah I’m ditching the cream as we speak and covering with Monument.
The cream security doos and screens are getting resprayed black too.
I’m seriously thinking about rendering the brickwork.
Cheers.

 

If the cement is in good order, try simply spray painting the brick first. May not need rendering to look good, and save a small fortune

 

Maybe I could do a Cherie Barber (Renovating For Profit) and just render the front of the house and paint the sides and rear?
There's almost nothing to render at the front - big glass sliders take up the majority of the facade. My only concern with painting bricks is that it virtually locks you out of ever rendering in the future, if you should change your mind. You can't render over painted bricks I've been told. Is that right?

 

Can be done but a bit of mucking around ... have to scuff up the paint surface down the the brick in parts - pressure clean it off to remove any flakes/dust - the add a ***** load of bondcrete to the first layer of render

Bit like scuffing tiles to tile over (breaking the glaze)

 

I'm not sure I'm down for pressure cleaning the amount of bricks there are on both the sides of the house. I think if I need to go to the trouble of getting scaffolding erected, I'll just render the whole house while its up.