Colour choice appointments

So the next step in our journey to our new home is Colour choice - this involves an appointment for choosing all colours and upgrades, electrical and tiles.

We had another Trainee joining in on our colour appointment who took control of half of the appointment. We had a pretty good idea of what we wanted so the appointment didn't take too long. This is what we chose for our outside colours:

We changed the entry door as we didn't like the one which was optioned for us. We upgraded to getting it stained (the middle block colour in the above picture, which will be the same stain used for our stairs.)

As previously mentioned we had roughly choose the colours for our kitchen and when we discussed these with our consultants they suggested that there were slightly too many different textures fighting for attention and then showed us other options. We were shown options that we didn't realise were standard and found ones that we really liked. We have decided to go with a two tone kitchen and have chosen a dark brown colour for our island and overhead cabinets and are having white for the lower cabinets against the wall. To go with this we have chosen a silver tone for our bench tops which are stone :) To set this all off we have chosen a coloured glass splash back to add a pop of colour.

In the above photo you can also see our choice of floor covering which is a dark 'rustic black' floor board and a grey tone wall colour. We have also chose a dark colour carpet to match the floor boards.

We only made a few upgrades one being to our internal door - the many reason was that when we went on the weekend we were told that they were standard and had really liked them, so we decided to just upgrade the ones downstairs (the great thing about building a double is that we get to only upgrade what guest will see :P). These are the doors:

The other upgrades were to the master ensuite, we upgraded the toilet (it is flush against the wall) and added a rain/dumper shower.

Next up we had electrical - this appointment drained me as I was so worried about our budget! The one downfall about building a double is that it is hard to retro fit anything electrical after handover. So with this is mind we have put mostly LED down lights downstairs and and put in a few noggings so that we can install fans later. Upstairs we kept fairly basic apart from the Master suite - seeing a theme here?! We also optioned pre-wiring for theatre room and a security system. Here are our electrical plans.

The following day we had our tile appointment which again we also had a trainee sitting in on (see the Trainee house!) again this appointment went quick and we decided to do our ensuite all in a dark tile floors & walls all the same colour and left all other tiles as standard ones. We also decided to choose a feature tiles (last photo below) for our shower niche in the ensuite. Below are our colour choices.

We ended up coming out of our tile appointment spending way less than we thought as we had been quoted the wrong price for the tile we liked for our ensuite which was awesome.

As you can see from our colour choices we have chosen dark flooring and a light grey wall colour this means that any colour we choose to add with furniture and accessories will be easy to change at any time as the black/grey/white shades will go with most colours. :)

Next week we have our contract appointment to go through all the final cost of everything we have chosen then hopefully if all goes well we will start building in September this year!