Whilst our neigbours with darker roofs had their aircon running when the temps got over 30c we could easily survive with just ceiling fans.
Houses with surfmist colorbond roof.
Colorbond ultra steel in monument colorbond ultra steel in surfmist colorbond metallic steel in galactic.
To all intents and purposes this looks like a fresh white because there isn t another white introduced into the scheme.
The roof colour for this period home is colorbond steel basalt matt a colour that lends itself to being used in highly contrasted combinations in this instance with chalky white coloured walls deep charcoal coloured details and marble.
Outside it looks white but because it has a hint of underlying grey you don t need a pair of sunglasses to look at it.
Darren bless him knew my heart was set on this so we went with surfmist for the colorbond roof and standing seam.
Photo by sam noonan architect.
Like a lot of people have already written it has significant thermal advantages over the darker colorbond colours.
There is also colorbond walling in shale grey with a monument garage.
It s a wonderful combination drawing inspiration from an era of glamor and extravagance.
The house above has a colorbond surfmist roof gutter and facia windows garage door and the posts and rafters painted to match.
Our first build had a surfmist roof and our new build is also going to have a surfmist roof.
You can see how you can tell which colour the roof is from the flashing rather than the actual ribbed metal roofing.
The house below has a shale grey roof and gutter with surfmist facia posts and balustrades.
The house above has a shale grey colorbond roof and gutters with surfmist facia.
This home by claire cousins architects shows the colorbond standing seam in surfmist in action.
This house has a colorbond dune roof gutter facia and garage.