Colours....

Today would be a big day, our Colour Selection and Electrical Appointment.

Colours came first, as I have said before, we had researched our items and had most of them all ready picked.

So we stuck with our choices, Lawson Bricks, Ironed natural mortar, Barramundi roof tiles, White Birch windows our Consultant helped us with some of the finer items, such as chosing Monument for the gutters/downpipes and Surfmist for the facias to go with the Garage door. She asked us what colour we wanted for the trim on the render, we just looked at her.....we hadn't realised that the render had trim...she got all the colour samples out, in the end we went with Dune for just a bit of contrast. The roof also has gables, we stuck to the colour scheme and went with Surfmist panels with Dune trim.

As we are having timber windows and French doors at the front we then had to pick a timber stain, which wasn't hard, we ended up picking Rosewood, the Front door would also be stained this colour, along with the doors leading out onto the Alfresco...(sliding door, Bi-fold doors and more French doors).

We had researched our own front door as I wasn't happy with any that PD had to offer....an upgrade...we opted for a Windsor with Jewel Zinclight glazing from Corinthian Doors and for the Laundry we chose an IBP also from Corinthian, this door had a internal blind in it...so i never have to try and clean it (unless the door breaks...lol).

In one of the previous posts I mentioned how we wanted to try and get the same colours or as close to as possible for the internal paintwork as we had in our home. After a few minor adjustments with the help of our Consultant we went with New Pale Cream for all the walls, the Architrave would be Koscuisko Pebble and as I didn't want the doors in that colour I had no choice but to go for an upgrade to have them painted White.

Picking the skirting boards/architraves was interesting as this is one of the items that they didn't have out on display at Hopetoun...had no idea what i wanted here, so i tried to match it up with the Cornicing...so it will be interesting to see how it comes out when its up. Oh yes, the cornicing we chose was the Symphony 75mm. We didn't realise until we have been reading peoples blogs and posts on Homeone that you could have two different sizes in the house...grrr we would have gone for a larger one in some of the rooms...never mind.

For us the Laminates were easy....the kitchen and bathrooms would all be in Vinyl Wrap Gloss in Polar White with white kickboards in Laminex. In the butlers pantry I went for Diamond Gloss in Starlight....which will tie in nicely with the Starlight Black Quantum Quartz on the benchtops. After picking our tiles for the laundry we took another trip down to Laminex to repick our colours, we chose Tuscan Marble for the benches while the trough doors would be in Moleskin...I am not having any other cupboards in the laundry as i only end up putting junk in them anyway.

As part of the promotion a glass splashback was included, it might sound boring but we went with white, originally we were going to have the upgraded glass but under the samples the white actually looked better with the normal glass, so normal it was! figured if we dont like it then we can do something about it later...like take it off and tile the area.

The handles for all our cupboards! This i think took the longest, ended up having the same handle on everything through out the house, a stainless steel bar handle.

All the external doors with the exception of the Bi-fold and slider are having the Durabrass Traditional Trilock lever handles, we had had these at a previous house and I absolutely loved them. The internal doors are all having Chrome lever handles.

The only other thing of interest would be our carpet. We have pets, currently one dog and two cats, we are definatley getting another dog once we have moved, so our choice of colour for our carpet is reflective of this, we upgraded to the next category to get the Oakley in a Cocoa colour...to me its like a milk chocolate