Interior Colours...

We did a couple of trips out to Hopetoun Interiors to have a look at their wares.

We knew straight up what colour we wanted the internal walls to be painted, Hog Bristle 1/4 strength with the woodwork in the 1/2 strength, only trouble was that Hog Bristle is a Dulux paint and PD use Wattyl paints, trying to find paint samples for Wattyl was frustrating, in the end we took our colours with us to our Colour Appointment and matched them from there, so we ended up choosing New Pale Cream for the walls with the woodwork in Kosiosko Pebble, we upgraded the paint work as i wanted the doors to be white - later on we will change them to suit us.

Tiles

We also did a few trips to National Tiles, naturally all the tiles that I liked were NOT in catergory 1. I am definately a bower bird, i love shiney things and thats what i gravitated towards. We looked at a few that were 400mm x 400mm that came in 4 different colours; a fawn, a honey, a mocha and a chocolate all had white veins running thru them ( and yes, they were shiney).

Originally we were going to go with all of them bar the mocha but on a subsequent visit we deceided that the chocolate was too dark, the mocha would go much better as the main tile from the front door through to the kitchen/family room and dining room with the fawn as a border tile in the entry way, this tile would also go into the laundry as the floor tile.

When we had our Tile appointment we found our main tile for the Ensuite and Bathroom, a white 400mm x 400mm tile with a faint blue vein running through it. We took our daughter with us to the apppointment so she could pick out her border tiles for her bathroom she ended up picking out 2 different purple pencil tiles, one was a lavender colour while the other was more of a Aubergine colour. For the Ensuite we picked out a pale blue tile with a mushroom coloured flower ( description not very acurate). The only other room that needed tiles was the laundry, in here I chose a glass tile in differnt shades of brown, this was my favourite tile.

Laminates

I was very definate on what i wanted for our kitchen, white vinyl wrap for the cupboards with a black granite top, we had had this previously and it looked a treat, okay, so we opted for a black quantum quartz but it will still look awesome, we are going to be boring and have a white splashback but i figure we can tizz it up with coloured accents :)

The bathrooms will also have the white vinyl wrap cupboards. For the laundry the only cupboards in there will be the ones under the trough, these will be in moleskin with the benches in a tuscan marble.

Carpet

We chose a milk chocolate carpet for the rooms that were not tiled except for the Master where we chose a off white, the idea behind having brown tiles and carpet is for the animals to try and minimize the visible lmess especially during winter.