Hello,

I am in Melbourne, Australia and am looking for inspiration for the repainting of the weatherboard section of our part weatherboard and part brick house.

I have had a colour consultant help me, and I have painted the weatherboard section as she said 'Dulux Columbia' but it just looks so brown and boring... I even tried another colour she recommended for our back deck called 'Dulux Flinders Island'. But this still seems a bit depressive. The photo below shows the 'Columbia' at the top and the 'Flinders Island' at the bottom.

We are committed to a 'colourbond' colour called 'Paperbark' for window trims, fascias and gutters (as seen on the gutters, and on third image I have attached.. We haven't had a chance to paint the fascias in paperbark as yet so it all looks a bit stripy)... We are also going to spray the roof, probably a charcoal colour but this is not set in stone.

The second image shows the ugly brown brick we are working with on the rest of the house (oh and my patchy test spot painting). I don't like the brick colour so would prefer not to be too 'matchy- matchy' with the brick and hopefully one day we could render the entire house in the same colour as the lovely colour we choose for the weatherboard.

I would really like something fresh and contemporary, we have a lovely blue stone wall and I was wondering if it might be too 'out there' to go a slate blue grey?

Any advice would be really appreciated.

From Olivia