Front door, guttering etc

reggie

Whole of the outside of our house needs doing - front door, garage door, windows, guttering, fascias, drain pipes and walls painting. We are going round in circles trying to work out what will look best so thought I'd throw it up for advice here! We will be painting the house a cream/oat colour. The garage door is facing the front, so has to tie in with the rest. We are thinking composite door - maybe dark blue. We are thinking if we go for all white roofline, drain etc that will leave us open to window choice? However, a few builders have said black drain pipes, gutter? Any ideas, don't want to get this wrong!

icecurtain

we went for white windows, black doors inc garage door with chrome furnishing and guttering looks smart .

OldFartPlumber

Never go for white gutter - it looks grubby after 1 winter . Never go for fake wood fascias/ windows - they look er, Fake . Dk. Blue Compo gge. door sounds good . PS. you can get plastic gutter/pipes that do a fair impression of cast iron ( without the maintenance) and the pipe brackets are nice and chunky - makes me want to hold them to the wall with a 3inch pipe nail . LOL

docmatt

Can u post a pic of your front property?

Ionkontrol

Take a picture of you house, then photoshop it.

Furts

Black gutter and downpipe must be top quality or over time it will fade due to uv light. It will also be subject to expansion and contraction, with creaking and eventual leaks.

White windows and gutters are a traditional UK building detail for good reason - they pass the test of time and are not subject to uv degradation, warping, expansion, and contraction when considered with coloured varieties.

A composite door in dark blue could be a catalogue of problems if your door receives direct sunshine, is not shaded, or has an inadequate porch. A good quality door would help minimise this - but the question is does anyone manufacture such a thing? There are fans of Rockdoor on this forum.

My neighbour has had two replacement blue doors. They have no porch overhang detail and the door faces south west. On a summers day the door reaches an amazing high temperature!