Your Guide to Choosing Tudor Exterior Paint Colours

When you think of Tudor and Tudor-revival style homes, the image that springs to mind is light exterior walls, with contrasting exposed timber beams, in a dark brown, black or grey. At Tudor Boards Ltd, our speciality is to transform your home into a stylish mock Tudor property through the installation of our stunning hand-made polyurethane mock Tudor boards and planks.

Manufactured in moulds created from genuine English oak timbers, our Tudor boards provide the striking aesthetics of timber, but with the durability, and low maintenance benefits of modern materials. As well as standard colours such as black, rosewood, chocolate brown, golden oak, and anthracite grey, we can also produce Tudor planks in any RAL colour of your choice.

When it comes to choosing a colour for your Tudor boards, you will also have to consider exterior paint colours to contrast tastefully with your mock timber. So, how do you find the perfect colour combination that will work for your home exterior? Here are some of our top tips:

Consider choosing a historically accurate colour scheme

If you are aiming to achieve a mock Tudor effect for your home, you will probably want to choose a colour scheme that is traditional to that style of building. You will probably choose two distinct colours – a light colour for the exterior walls, such as a white, crème, or pale yellow, and a darker colour for the polyurethane plank work, such as black, dark grey, or a brown.

Light colours can help a building to look larger than it is, whilst darker colours add drama and draw attention to architectural details.

Remember, although it is best to limit mock Tudor homes to two colours, this doesn’t mean to say that you can’t mix historical styles with a little bit of modern colour…

Mix bold colours with traditional architecture

If you want to create a more exciting aesthetic for your home, you could make bolder choices when it comes to deciding on your colour scheme. For example, rather than a white or muted exterior wall colour, you could choose a sky blue, or a bubble gum pink to ensure your house really stands out. You may even decide to choose a non-traditional colour for your Tudor boards.

Needless to say, bolder colours may leave your house as the odd one out in your street, so you may want to consider how much these colours are going clash with the surrounding houses. If you live in a neighbourhood that is full of colour, then you can enjoy a bold colour choice much more.

Avoid matching your neighbours

Whilst bright colours aren’t for everyone, this isn’t to say that you should choose the same colour palette as your neighbours. If your home matches your neighbours too closely, then it will struggle to stand out at all, especially if it is a very similar shape and size.

Consider your roof and brickwork

When you are choosing Tudor exterior paint colours, don’t forget to consider the unpainted surfaces of your home’s exterior. Before you choose a colour for your Tudor style beams and start slathering paint on the outside of your home, you should consider your roof, chimney, and any exposed brickwork and whether your chosen colours will fit. Exterior colour choices don’t necessarily have to match brick or roof tiles, but they should be able to exist alongside them in harmony!

Choosing Tudor Boards for Your Home

If you would like to add a historical aesthetic to your home, talk to us today about mock Tudor boards. We will be happy to talk you through the manufacturing processes that make our product so special.

For help in choosing the right colours for your Tudor boards and home exterior, call Tudor Boards Ltd today on 0121 296 8000.