Design your Colorbond® shed in any of 22 colours with shed designer.
Design your shed in 22 Colorbond® steel colours. 100% Australian BlueScope steel, ShedSafe accredited dealers, comparable quotes from one online design.
Colorbond Designs
Basalt
Browse basalt designs. Choose a starting template and customise to your needs.
Bluegum
Browse bluegum designs. Choose a starting template and customise to your needs.
Classic Cream
Browse classic cream designs. Choose a starting template and customise to your needs.
Cottage Green
Browse cottage green designs. Choose a starting template and customise to your needs.
Deep Ocean
Browse deep ocean designs. Choose a starting template and customise to your needs.
Dover White
Browse dover white designs. Choose a starting template and customise to your needs.
Dune
Browse dune designs. Choose a starting template and customise to your needs.
Evening Haze
Browse evening haze designs. Choose a starting template and customise to your needs.
Gully
Browse gully designs. Choose a starting template and customise to your needs.
Ironstone
Browse ironstone designs. Choose a starting template and customise to your needs.
Jasper
Browse jasper designs. Choose a starting template and customise to your needs.
Manor Red
Browse manor red designs. Choose a starting template and customise to your needs.
Monument
Browse monument designs. Choose a starting template and customise to your needs.
Night Sky
Browse night sky designs. Choose a starting template and customise to your needs.
Pale Eucalypt
Browse pale eucalypt designs. Choose a starting template and customise to your needs.
Paperbark
Browse paperbark designs. Choose a starting template and customise to your needs.
Shale Grey
Browse shale grey designs. Choose a starting template and customise to your needs.
Southerly
Browse southerly designs. Choose a starting template and customise to your needs.
Surfmist
Browse surfmist designs. Choose a starting template and customise to your needs.
Wallaby
Browse wallaby designs. Choose a starting template and customise to your needs.
Windspray
Browse windspray designs. Choose a starting template and customise to your needs.
Woodland Grey
Browse woodland grey designs. Choose a starting template and customise to your needs.
What is Colorbond® steel?
Colorbond® steel is a pre-painted steel cladding made by BlueScope, one of Australia's largest manufacturers (BlueScope, About Colorbond steel, 2026). The base sheet is a metallic-coated steel substrate. The colour layer is a baked-on paint system, oven-cured at the BlueScope mill rather than sprayed on after fabrication, which is why a Colorbond® roof or wall sheet looks the same colour year after year and doesn't peel where the trim laps.
Every dealer on ShedDesigner builds in Colorbond® steel and 100% Australian-made BlueScope structural steel. The sheets are rolled and cured locally, the engineering is verified through the ShedSafe programme run by the Australian Steel Institute, and the build lands on your slab as one design quoted by multiple accredited dealers in your region.
The 22-colour Colorbond® palette
The standard Colorbond® steel range carries 22 colours across roofing, walling and trim. The configurator lets you pick a different colour for the roof, the walls and the trim, so most builds end up using two or three from this list. Group them by mood and the choice gets simpler.
Heritage and earthy sit naturally on rural blocks, working farms, and any build that needs to disappear into a paddock or tuck in beside a homestead.
- Manor Red, the classic homestead roof
- Pale Eucalypt, soft sage-green
- Cottage Green, period weatherboard green
- Woodland Grey, deep warm-leaning charcoal, a long-running rural staple
- Wallaby, warm grey-brown
- Paperbark, warm beige
- Dune, pale beige
Modern and urban suit garages, contemporary shed homes, commercial fronts, and any build where you want the cladding to read sharp.
- Monument, the modern signature charcoal
- Basalt, cooler near-black with a violet undertone
- Night Sky, the deepest near-black
- Ironstone, blue-toned dark grey
- Jasper, warm brown-toned charcoal
Light and coastal carry the highest solar reflectance, a useful pick for workshops, large-roof commercial sheds, and anywhere within reach of salt air.
- Surfmist, cool, light near-white, solar absorptance 0.33 on BlueScope's published data
- Classic Cream, warm soft off-white
- Dover White, the brightest cool white
- Evening Haze, pale cream-grey
- Shale Grey, light cool grey
- Southerly, pale blue-grey
Distinctive and accent are statement colours, often used on a feature wall, trim or single roof.
- Deep Ocean, deep marine blue
- Bluegum, muted blue-green
- Gully, warm earthy olive
- Windspray, soft cool blue-grey
How to choose your Colorbond® colour
Three quick filters sort most of it.
Light or dark, then thermal performance. Lighter colours reflect more solar energy and keep an uninsulated roof cooler in summer. BlueScope publishes Solar Reflectance Index values per colour using ASTM E1980-11, the standard practice for calculating SRI on horizontal and low-sloped surfaces (BlueScope, Cool Roofing, technical bulletin TB-39, 2024). For a workshop or horse barn, the thermal swing between Surfmist (solar absorptance 0.33) and Monument (0.73) can be the difference between a usable summer afternoon and one you walk out of.
Roof, walls and trim, decided together. A common rural pairing is a darker roof with lighter walls (Manor Red roof on a Classic Cream barn, Woodland Grey roof on a Wallaby shed). A common modern pairing is lighter walls with a sharp dark trim (Surfmist walls with Monument trim and door frames). The colour pages above include recommended pairings per colour.
Site context. Heritage overlays, body-corp rules and rural colour conditions can lock the choice. Many local councils ask for muted earth tones in rural and bushland zones, which usually steers buyers toward Woodland Grey, Wallaby, Pale Eucalypt or Cottage Green. Coastal builds within roughly 200m of breaking surf usually need Colorbond® Ultra steel for the additional corrosion-resistant substrate, which is available across the standard colour range.
Why Colorbond® on a ShedDesigner build
Every ShedDesigner build is clad in 100% Australian-made BlueScope Colorbond® steel and framed in BlueScope structural steel. Colorbond® steel for sheds and garages carries a warranty of up to 15 years against corrosion to perforation by weathering when used as roofing and walling, with conditions on installation and site (BlueScope, Colorbond® Steel Sample Warranty: Sheds and Garages, accessed 2026).
Every dealer on the site is ShedSafe accredited under the Australian Steel Institute programme, the third-party assessment that verifies engineering practice against the National Construction Code and AS/NZS 1170.2 wind loading (Australian Steel Institute, ShedSafe Programme).
Submitting a design through the configurator sends the same specification to accredited dealers in your region: one design, multiple quotes.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many Colorbond® colours are available?
The standard Colorbond® steel range carries 22 colours across roofing, walling and trim. BlueScope occasionally retires or introduces colours, but 22 is the current Australia-wide standard range as of 2026. ShedDesigner lets you pick a different colour for the roof, the walls and the trim, so most builds use two or three from the list.
What's the difference between Colorbond® and standard galvanised steel?
Galvanised steel is uncoated zinc-coated steel, usually finished raw or painted on site. Colorbond® steel is a pre-painted steel where the colour layer is oven-cured onto a metallic-coated substrate at the BlueScope mill. The factory-cured paint system is why Colorbond® holds its colour through Australian sun and salt air, and why the warranty term covers both the steel and the colour.
Which Colorbond® colour is coolest in summer?
The light cool whites carry the highest solar reflectance. Surfmist, Dover White, Classic Cream and Evening Haze sit at the top of the BlueScope thermal range. The dark colours (Monument, Basalt, Night Sky, Ironstone) absorb more solar energy and run hotter under sun. For an uninsulated workshop or barn roof, picking a lighter colour can drop the under-sheet temperature by tens of degrees on a hot day. Insulation closes the gap, so it matters less for a fully lined shed home.
Can I match Colorbond® on roof, walls and trim, or do they need to differ?
Either works. A monolithic build (one colour across roof, walls and trim) reads quietly modern and is a popular choice for Surfmist, Monument and Woodland Grey. Most rural buyers split the colours, usually a darker roof with lighter walls and a contrasting trim. The configurator handles all three independently.
How long does Colorbond® colour last?
Colorbond® steel for sheds and garages carries a warranty of up to 15 years against corrosion to perforation by weathering, with separate paint warranty terms for fade and peel, subject to BlueScope's installation and site conditions (BlueScope, *Colorbond® Steel Sample Warranty: Sheds and Garages*). Exact warranty periods are set per project through BlueScope's online warranty estimator, so it's worth checking your build against it before you order.
Are all 22 Colorbond® colours available everywhere in Australia?
Yes for the standard range, though some accredited fabricators stock a smaller everyday list and order the rarer colours in. For coastal builds, BlueScope recommend Colorbond® Ultra steel within roughly 200m of breaking surf, which carries the same colour range on a more corrosion-resistant substrate. The dealer's quote will flag the right product for your site.
Can I see real ShedDesigner builds in different Colorbond® colours?
Yes. Each of the 22 colour pages above carries cross-style builds for that colour, the recommended roof and trim pairings, and the configurator templates that suit that look. The configurator itself can also switch colours live on any build.
What's the difference between Colorbond® matt and original?
Original Colorbond® has a low-sheen finish with a slight reflectivity, which is what most rural and suburban builds use. Colorbond® Matt is a chalkier, no-sheen finish that softens the look further, often picked for shed homes and architectural builds where a flat finish suits the style. Both carry the same colour range and the same BlueScope warranty framework.