b'green thumbT he more effort you put into selecting colours for a buildings exterior, the Claddingones.more you realise what a complex business it can be. A successful exterior palette goes far beyond you and your clients personal preferences. When done with care and consideration, your specifications can help your design to harmonise with its surroundingsboth the natural aspects and manmade cues Designer Darryl Church sharesExteriorcolourchoicescansignificantlyimpactastructuresoverall appearance, enhancing or highlighting its best traits. Some hues will help your project to blend in with its environment, others can make it stand out. Certain colours can present safety issues due to glare while some will simply lose their strategies for harnessing contextualcharm when viewed under outdoor conditions.colours to create eye-catching exteriors. There are, of course, all sorts of different types of settings where a project could be located and the inherent colours of its particular surroundings will also have an influence on the look of the exterior. Paint colours are greatly affected by relativity and each hue can look entirely different depending on what other colours are adjacent to it. When you consider our unique mix of tropical, subtropical, temperate and arid climates and the range of different plants that grows in each, the colours of our natural environment are quite distinctive. Colours seen in nature also differ broadly on a national and regional level. For example, a building in the Bay of Plenty will sit amongst a bluer and greener context than one that is set within the reds and golds of the Australian outback.And then there could be specific goals that need to be achieved through your exterior colour palette. A residential home that sits alone on a rural section nestled into a forested landscape might benefit from being clad in earthy tonesabove and opposite: The design of DCAs Heretaunga Intermediate Technology Blocktop tipto complement its surroundings. If the client wants their property to be betterproject is defined by bold blocks of colour wrapping around the four corners of the building. hidden from view, cladding in a dark olive-toned green like Resene Half KarakaRather than apply a single hue for each, Darryl and his team decided to create a variegatedDraw attention to key features might better conceal it within a bushy, wooded environment than a cleanercollection of three shades per block. These colour blends were chosen to ensure a texturalin your exterior design by timber green like Resene Kaitoke Green. Conversely, a structure situated inresponse, applied in random strips and of varying widths so as not to read as stripes. 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