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.
Love love love red front doors!!! It's always been a dream of mine to have a red front door :)
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