Tiles and Carpet

We had our tiling and carpet appointment this afternoon so all our colours are now locked in!

TILES/CARPETS

• Tiling to front porch and al fresco area - Torino Coffee matte 'grip' 450x450

• Carpets to all bedrooms, wardrobes and formal lounge - Sierra Vista, 140

• Tiling to the hallway, living area, dining area and kitchen - Torino Coffee matte 450x45

• Mosaic tiling splashback in kitchen, including behind rangehood

 

• Tiling to bathroom, ensuite and laundry floor - City Latte 300x300

• Tiling to bathroom, ensuite and laundry walls - Matang White 300x400 (laid horizontally)

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• Mosaic tiling to bathroom and ensuite shower niches

 

Here's a combination shot of the kitchen with samples of the Ceasarstone bench top, cabinet colour and paint samples:







Here's a combination shot of the bathroom with samples of the Ceasarstone bench tops and cabinet colours:

 





 

Colour consultation

Ben and I met with the colour consultant yesterday to confirm our external colour choices. She was great and knew exactly what she was talking about making it so easy to put together a simple but effective colour scheme. Considering how indecisive and stressed I was over the choices a few weeks ago, its surprising how happy and confident I am now!

The first gem of advice she gave me was that the brick I originally wanted, Austral 'Latte', is a painted brick, so if it chips its immediately noticeable. The brick we ended up selecting is coloured through so chips won't matter. It's also one of the bricks in our inclusions so it doesn't cost any extra. I'm happy because it still has the varying colours through it that I liked about the Latte, rather than being a flat uniform colour.

The other colours I had down to one or two choices and once we started putting the colour scheme together those decisions were easy. The front door was a big difference to what I had in mind though... red! I love it and with the otherwise bland colouring, it's really going to make the house pop!

EXTERNAL COLOURS

• Bricks - PGH 'Gravel' with off-white flush mortar

• Roof, gutters and water tank - Colorbond 'Dune'

• Fascia, downpipes, windows (frames and flyscreens), eaves and garage - Colorbond 'Surfmist'

• Front door - Corinthian 'Madison PMAD101' in Bristol 'burnt toffee'

After working through the external colours fairly quickly we still had half our time slot left with the colour consultant so we decided to continue on with as many of our internal choices as we could, without having had our tile/carpet appointment yet. Wanting to bring the same colour scheme from the outside in these choices were pretty easy and we locked in the majority of the internal colours. All that's left now is choosing the floor tiles, carpets and finding the perfect mosaic tiles to be the feature on the kitchen splash back and in the bathroom niches.

INTERNAL COLOURS

• Walls, ceiling, architraves and cornices - Dulux 'natural white'

• Feature wall - Taubmans 'Quarry'

• Benchtop - Caesarstone 'osprey'

• Kitchen cupboards - Polytec 'classic white' 

• Bathroom/ensuite cupboards - Polytec 'Marni Lini'

 

 

Stay tuned for the tiling and carpet choices next week.

 

 

 

 

 



 

Curbs

On a routine drive-by of the developent yesterday, I noticed the first hints of our street have appeared. The road bed has been laid and the curbs are in. Seeing as the workers left the gates wide open and were all the way down the other end of the area working, I figured it wouldn't hurt anyone if I wandered in to have a look and take a few quick snaps of their recent handiwork.