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Pella “Vanilla Cream?!”

3 years ago

My husband & I are building our first home and I went with Pella Architect Series “Vanilla Cream” colored windows— before I read all these bad reviews on Houzz about them— oops. It’s too late to change, hoping someone would show me a pictire of their Pella Vanilla Cream windows?! I’m banging my head against a wall, and I’m already disappointed in the Pella rep not being able to show me a real life sample. I went with the cream because I don’t went to paint my house “bright white” and want the windows to blend. On a scale of 1-10 how bad will I regret all this?! $50K worth of windows later... HELP!

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Patricia Colwell Consulting

3 years ago

Waht does your house look like what are the colors of the siding, stone if any . IMO cream or almond windows control every other choice you make. So post pics of the exterior and the choices you have made other than the windows. Since they are a done deal hopefully the other choices have not been made yet

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thethistle
3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago
I would think any decision that big is going to come with its fair share of doubt. That shade might look a little off with that cold-toned slate colour siding that's popular now, so maybe that has some baring on negative reviews. I found some pictures of a house on the Pella of Richmond, VA Facebook page that they say has windows in vanilla cream. It looks good with the warm brown siding. Bright white would have been to stark.
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Megan Dacus
Original Author
3 years ago
@Patricia Colwell Consulting this is a photo of the house. Shutters will change! We are slated to do a painted brick... could potentially add stone as well.
Megan Dacus
Original Author
3 years ago
@thethistle Thank you!! I saw these on a Google search but didn’t know they were all Vanilla Cream. Thanks! They still look white to me. Against the brown, they don’t scream “cream”... which I’m hoping to accomplish on my house as well. I just didn’t want stark white windows....
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@Patricia Colwell Consulting i also meant to say- I’m looking at painting the exterior a warm white color such as SW Alabaster or BM White Dove!
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@Megan Dacus I posted above but didn’t tag —- asking if you considered the soft linen? thx!
spolhill
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@megan dacus - how did it turn out? i put in new windows on half of our home in the vanilla creme. like you, i didnt want stark white. im sad to say that i feel like mine is much too yellow. im also kicking myself. when we replace the other half of the house, i will not do vanilla again….and hope to paint the vanilla ones. i hope that’s a possibility to paint them?!?!

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