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Originally Posted by DoubleF

Silly question, but is it intentional that the roof in both pics are intentionally the same colors as the siding? Would you actually go with a green roof with Mountain Sage or light blue/blackish roof for Ocean Blue?

No. My roof will be a metal roof in the iron ore colour from this set.

https://westmansteel.com/suppport/colour-chart/

In the third Ocean blue pic, there's very little colors other than the dirt in the area vs the other pics have much more vegetation. If that's your concern for saturation (especially with dark trim vs white) I could see that, especially early after the build before you get some landscaping in and it's all that dirt or if your outdoor accessories (ie: Car, BBQ, firepit etc.) are also darker tones vs contrasting tones.

Definitely going to be some dirt in the area from landscaping (they're backfilling righto now actually) but ultimately it's going to be the ocean in front and then a lot of mossy tones around everywhere.

Also, will regular visitors be the type to appreciate art/architecture in that they will look at those colors regularly vs out into nature/internal of the home?

There will be very few minimal visitors, other than my extended family who also live on the adjacent properties. Other than that it's just the woods. No one else comes here, by design. We like to be left alone in our little family enclave.

I could see why you have concerns it's saturated/too dark. If there's not enough contrast in landscape color and regular sunlight (grey skies), there is a chance the blue could end up giving a sense of cold sadness and depression.

Yeah with the black accents and the fact that it's cloudy a lot there is a bit of that lack of warmth.

I hope I'm not reading into it wrong, but it almost sounds like you're thinking that if the blue is really good, it'll be really good, but if it's bad, it'll be really bad. Sage so far sounds less likely to have those extremes.

I actually think it's the opposite. I think the blue is likely to work well with just about everything, especially with wood accents. It almost doesn't matter what wood, a deep blue looks good with it. Sage is riskier to me because if the shade looks washed out it can just look... odd. And while green looks great with more reddish woods it doesn't necessarily go well with yellower woods and pine has some yellow tones. But the sage has a better upside because if you get it right it fits into the surroundings perfectly while being warmer and more inviting.

I think it'll work though. Really I think either will probably look quite good and I don't think there's a bad choice between them. But I have been going back and forth a lot about which I am leaning towards.

For green, I wouldn't feel as pressing of a need to do that, but then I'd have concern that the green could fade into a color I dislike (ie: an off olive color)

The benefit of hardie factory colours is they don't fade all that much, or so I'm told. But I do agree generally that blue fades better than green.