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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Yup - Hardie has them on their website.
Deep Ocean - https://www.jameshardie.ca/color-and...9-8ecf69160685
Mountain Sage - https://www.jameshardie.ca/color-and...c-f61404e2aed5
What you're saying about lighting is absolutely true, but it's equally true that the colour of siding, accents, windows etc. makes a big difference as well. Hardie sort of advertises that its factory colours "absorb" the accents, so if you do white accents it tends to brighten them.
I have samples, but lighting aside it's actually very hard to picture what it will look like on a house. So what I actually did is go to a siding contractor and get a list of addresses of past jobs in the city and drove around and looked at actual houses in various hardie colours. And the mountain sage looks deeper / darker in person than it does in most of the pictures on the hardie website, while the deep ocean looks less... saturated. Both of which are, in my view, good things. So I finished that tour still very torn between the two.
On the pine siding, my builder says, "Durability of pine is always going to be lesser of what a PVC, composite, or metal product can provide. That being said, we use pine all the time for soffit material and fairly often as accent wall material, without problems. It's best to have the pine pre-stained or painted to keep moisture out that could cause warping or twisting of the material. When selecting a paint or stain we would ensure to use a product that's also rated with a longer durability and can stand up to the weather." So he doesn't seem to think it's a huge deal. And it's not a lot of accent, overall, so... yeah. |
Yeah those links do a lot better job. I can see why the decision is torn.
I wonder if looking at the pics on the wall or possessions to see which color matches better for photos and for possessions. Maybe that would help with the tie breaker? Worst case you put it to random chance and then it's a funny story that the color was based on a coin flip.
My wife said blue. But she's always liked sky and ocean and is less enthused by earth tones. I'm the same in that I believe the blue will be more timeless.
If there's someone's whose opinion is paramount, but they've decided to sit on the fence, maybe you should try to get them off the fence. "Hey, what if instead of this blue or green, we go with Calgary Flames red and yellow? Oh, you'd rather one of the original green/blue instead? OK, let's do that."