Well it has been a long long time since anything has happened but today was a milestone.
It was the day we chose our colours.
It took three solid hours but we had a blast. Emma, the colour specialist was wonderful and very helpful and respected our sometimes whacky choices with a gentle nudge in the right direction.
So without further ado here are the nominees for best colour scheme in a new build.
Roof - Colorbond surfmist
Garage door - Colorbond surfmist
Render colour 1 - Haymes phantom
Render colour 2 - Haymes moon and stars
The Colorbond website has an online visualiser to help you get an idea. I had a play around and got it to as close as our colour choices as possible and took a little screen capture for your viewing pleasure
You may be thinking, where are the bricks gone? Have we gone mad? Alas, we have not. They will be rendered over. We couldn't decide on a brick that matched what was in our heads and for $1200 we could render the whole front and have a choice of two colours. "Sign me the friggen hell up" I squealed in my head, but casually advised we would like to go ahead with the rendering please. I love the light and airy feel it gives off. I want the front yard to be quite simple with grass and big beautiful flowers (possibly hydrangeas) under the window. I hope with that it will have a nice homely feel and not come across as too modern which is what I am trying to avoid. This is quite a challenge when the modern style is virtually bursting at the seems of our soon to be new estate. But I do feel that this colour scheme, although sleek and fresh, still has a casual feel to it. Is it just me or does it seem rather homely and lived in?
Also, something quite exciting I have noticed is that our car will match the house.Call me crazy but doesn't that make you want to break out into a dance? The nutbush perhaps? Really emphasising the leg kicks.
But with all good things we have to take into account the bad.
Today we found out that our soil survey was a P which is bad news. In my head I thought of fail PHAIL. It means the slab we had planned on having and the density of it needs to be reassessed to meet the requirements of the soil. It will cost a few thousand dollars. But I try to find the positive in it all and there is a clear one. We will have top of the range slab quality that will stand the test of time and be even more sturdier then originally planned.
Tomorrow I will give a run down of the internal colours we have chosen. Also, I might even be able to get an image of our actual colour choices on a 3D image of our design. Fingers and toes are crosssed.
So until then...
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