House rendering...opinions please

[Olive]

Wanting opinions regarding rendering, do you think it will date a house??
If anyone has done it recently, how much was it?

[LuluHB]

We completelhy renovated our house after buying it two years ago, including rendering, replacing window frames and re-painting the roof tiles. We used to have red brick, cream window frames and an orange roof - very 1980s and very unattractive! We now have dark blue/grey window frames and roof and a mock limestone render. It looks absolutely fantastic and is so worth the money. It took very little time to do - I think it was only a couple of days all up for our 380m2 house and cost $11K. That would have been about 18 months ago. We recently had the guys back to render the court yard wall we built and front wall and the prices were still the same. I had organised three quotes to be done, and just happened to have asked for a quote of the company that does all the rendering work under the umbrella of a big company. It was significantly cheaper to do it "direct" through him than via the big company so its definitely worth checking out the smaller guys. He uses the same product and offers the same guarantee for both work.

I'm not sure that it will date the house given that rendering has now been a very popular choice since the late 1990s and continuing, but I know the red brick and orange tiles certainly dated it.

[Muppity]

I don't think it dates houses - people have been rendering for decades now - and if anything it can give an old tired house a real lift.
Depends a bit on the colour - purple was so NSW central coast circa 2005 lol but so long as you stick with something neutral I say go for it.

As for price - sorry I have no idea but I was reading something about it in s magazine only recently (well since Christmas ) so I will try and remember where that was

[Kazbah]

We're just about to render our house - well half of it - and you can just paint it with any colour you like, as long as you have a light base render.

[Cally]

I don't think rendering will date it, but just be conscious of the colour as that may. But also one thing to keep in mind is that once you do it (assuming you have plain brick now), there will be some ongoing maintenance with regards future painting and any patching that may be needed.

[AnyDream]

There are lots of 60s and 70s houses in our area getting the rendering/window frames/roof/new front door makeovers. I agree that the choice of colour is what determines how contemporary they look. There are a lot of houses that have white render with mission brown trim, that's very dating. But colors like beige, coffee, limestone and some of the gentler sandstone colours work really well.