Gutters - Whats your thoughts????
I do not know if this is the right section, but I did a home renovation which looks great. It was a modest ranch but now has a great tradition old home look with alaskan yellow cedar siding.
I need to buy gutters on the house. I would LOVE to buy copper half round gutters on the house but I am sure most know the price of copper these days. I would really have to sacrifice to get the copper gutters.
My architect told be to go with a brown alum half round gutter to get the look of aged copper before it turns to the really old green look of copper.
Has anyone seen the royal brown, musket brown, or dark bronze alum. gutters on a house and how do they look? I do not want it look fake? Do they look pretty good?
Should I just go with traditional white half round or should I really sacrifice and just go with the real copper gutters.
Here is a picture of my house now. click for larger picture.
Bryan
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12 years ago...back with an update. I was all set to go with the musket brown alum. gutters, but when the installers showed up the color they had was not the same as the sample. I did not have them install the gutters. For future reference if you are looking for a copper look the bronze is a much better choice. The Royal Brown and Musket Brown look like BROWN and I do not think look like copper at any stage. The bronze is ok and I would have gone with that if I did not have the copper gutters opportunity that happen to fall into my lap.
After spending a long time on gutters here is my thoughts. If you are not going with copper I would go with white K style over the white half round. I do not think there is much of a difference when everything is said and done between the half round white and K - Style white. The colored alum. is nice but like a lot of things it is what it is Alum. trying to look like copper. It just doesn't look the same.
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