5 Trending Home Facade Colour Palettes in 2025

Every facade style comes with its own palette, and getting it right means understanding what works together and what doesn’t. If you’re unsure which style suits your build, start with our guide to facade styles.

Before you lock in a palette, here’s a quick checklist to guide your decision

• Design style
• Your taste and style
• Material budget 
• The building area landscape and surrounds
• The interior & furniture colour palette 

Palette 1: Japandi Neutral Calm

This palette will synchronise perfectly with a Japandi facade. Japandi, which you can read more about here in our complete Japandi guide, is a mixture of Japanese and Scandinavian design. It heavily features a light palette of off-white coastal browns, charcoal greys, and blacks for contrast. Additionally, this palette ages gracefully as it doesn’t depend on deep whites or blacks and fits perfectly with a coastal or suburban environment. This palette is also easy to landscape for, considering you can use a considerable amount of negative space and a feature tree such as the Corymbia citriodora to align with the palette perfectly.

Palette Hex:

• Warm White – #F5F3EF
• Greige Base – #C6BEB3
• Natural Oak – #D8BFAA
• Charcoal Accent – #3A3A3A
• Soft Clay – #BA8D71

Palette 2: Coastal Luxe

Perfect for modern coastal facades, this palette integrates perfectly with a coastal landscape. However, converse to the Japandi Neutral Calm, this palette is incredibly accessible as it flawlessly matches the ever-popular Hamptons style facade. Featuring a crisp white and a deep blue that blurs the line between your home and the ocean, this palette would be it if a palette existed for the perfect beach house. 

Palette Hex:

• Sea Mist White – #F3F4F1
• Cool Concrete Grey – #C2C8C5
• Driftwood Beige – #D1BFA9
• Stormy Sky Blue – #8EA9B9
• Midnight Trim (Charcoal Black) – #2B2E2F

Palette 3: Urban Contemporary

Not everyone goes big and bold with accent colours; we appreciate that sometimes less is more. Enter the Urban Contemporary. A simple palette accentuates complex designs because simple doesn’t have to mean boring; sometimes, it just means deliberate and important. You can create contrasts with the black and white in this palette or even combine them with that aggressive gunmetal grey that flourishes in its industrial look. Check out our recently completed build, Project: Nimbus to see how a palette such as this, fluent in its shades, can create meaningful accents with less brightness than you’d think. The key stands out in this palette and palettes is how it can make the colours in the wood just pop so much more than when it’s crowded with boisterous colours. 

Palette Hex:

• Crisp White – #F8F8F8
• Gunmetal Grey – #585E63
• Concrete Taupe – #AFA79F
• Rust Feature (Metallic or Render) – #B15B40
• Charcoal Black – #1E1E1E

Palette 4: Acreage (Modern Farmhouse)

As the chill of winter settles across Australia’s east coast, warm-toned facades offer an inviting sense of comfort. Take on the chill with this Acreage facade palette. The synergy between the soft bone and the natural timber gives you enough versatility to take risks in your facade and enough resemblance to tie it back together again. This palette fits perfectly for any modern farmhouse build and will blend in beautifully with any rural or semi-rural environment. It just boasts organic and natural tones that put any viewer at ease. The real standout here is that you’re flooded with options to landscape with, especially in Australia, as it perfectly complements a Sydney Red Gum or a variety of Eucalyptus trees. 

Palette Hex:

• Soft Bone – #EDE6DD
• Warm Greige – #AFAFA2
• Terracotta Clay – #B76E4B
• Ironstone – #43484A
• Natural Timber – #BDA58D

Palette 5: Monochrome Classic

If you’re a minimalist at heart, this is the palette for you. This palette evokes the refined elegance of a Chanel print, as if its essence were translated onto a facade. With deep whites, richer blacks, and the option for a brass or gold accent, this facade offers a timeless, high-contrast look that never goes out of style. If you’re thinking of using modern contemporary as your facade style, then this palette is a top five choice for you to make. This palette thrives in particularly urban environments, because unlike some of the other palettes here, the key to pulling off a monochrome classic facade is remembering when less is more. 

Palette Hex:

• Warm White – #FAF7F5
• Silver Grey – #D3D3D3
• Shadow Grey – #969696
• Matte Black – #222222
• Brass or Aged Gold Accent – #B8986A

As we mentioned, to begin with, there are many factors to consider, and we hope you found some inspiration. This article is only a starting point, an easy jump, before you dive into the whole design process. If you’d like, we recommend chatting with an expert, whether that’s one of our highly experienced design consultants or an architect you may know. It’s best to take an idea or a feeling, like one we’ve explored and then tailor it to your needs, tastes and preferences.