Start with selection of the main colour of the façade, and then look for supplementary colours. You can find many inspirations everywhere. It is enough to stop and look around. Selection of colour is affected not only by the setting but also by the colour of roof, windows and gutters.

Our tips

• Look for shades that are naturally occurring in your setting.
• Avoid too glittering and live shades. If they were not corresponding with function of the building, their appearance on the facade would become confusing.
• Colours on a large surface in the exterior look usually lighter than on a small surface. It is caused by many factors, such as light, size or surface.
  

You can choose supplementary colours from the same range. Shades from the same range will always look very stylish and harmonious. If you belong to braver ones, and you want to live the façade up, use dark and deep shades. Let them appear on details and smaller areas.

Colours are divided to 8 basic groups, from white shades, through yellow, brown, red up to a special group of neutral shades. Just the neutral shades make a perfect basis of the main façade colour. They provide the façade with a light and natural appearance.

If your picture of your house’s colour is hidden behind favourite words, such as ivory, chocolate, vanilla, sandy, choose the way of inspirations. Behind every favourite colour, you will find 4 variants of shades and also recommended colour combinations.

Would you like to prefer advices from an architect? Visit the Trends, and choose your colour shade according to the type of architecture proposed by the architect Ms. Silvia Cejpekova. When combining colours, you can be creative with self-confidence of a professional. All colours, materials, and accessories within a single palette have been proposed to maintain their mutual harmony.

Or do you like to philosophize? The colour, art and design expert, prof. Axel Venn from Berlin, will deal with 8 psychological topics about colours. Fresh and fashionable colours are attractive for cities. Façades are the best story-tellers. They give a character to colonnades and streets. Choose a colour shade for your house.

How many colours do you identify? Do you know them all? Seeing colours is the ability of human’s eye to perceive a light reflection from a certain surface. And other factors, such as light source, watching angle, size of the area, structure of the surface, the setting can even cause that we perceive the “same” colour differentially. And just because of this, get round to final selection of colour for your house, and contemplate.