The day has finally come! What an exciting and terrifying experience, spending 8 hours with Plantation, arguing over, locking in colours with the person whom you will blame for the next twenty years if it's all just not perfect your wonderful spouse, and rushing through signing your life away because you have to rush to daycare to pick up a child after careful consideration signing your contract for your new source of aggravation for 12 months new home.
We met with our 'Interior Consultant' at 9am to discuss colours. Um, er, well, tell her what you have chosen and she scribbles short hand on some plans with minimal discussion. Deep breaths and fingers crossed it's going to look brilliant, because they won't be offering many suggestions. Maybe this is because we have such wonderful tastes in colours and we have been able to match three sets of tiles, hardwood flooring, four paint colours, a stone bench top, timber stain, carpet, colourbond, cabinetry, handles, taps, sinks, toilets and accessories perfectly?! Right??
Anyway, by 1030 we're done with Cosham and we get a free lunch voucher. Your Dad was right, there is never such a thing as a free lunch, we've paid 3k to get to this point and have had a couple of hours of some 'Consultants' time to show for it. However, it may have been the best 'free' lunch we've ever had.
So other blogs have lots of wonderful photos to show you of their colour selections so you can ohh and ahh over their fantastic taste in hard furnishings. Sorry folks, I have one for you, our stone bench colour. BYO Moet.Avalanche Quartz
Other selections include:
Exterior Paint : Whisper White, Dulux
Roof, gutter, fascia, garage door (slimline), water tank: Surfmist, Colourbond
Front door, other garage door: Limed white (full), Dulux
Timber stacking and sliding doors, timber capping on stair rail: Cedar, Rich chocolate, Stegbar
Interior Paint: Scallywag, Dulux
Skirts, internal doors: Whisper White, Dulux
Floors Main: (Not readable in English, however some kind of distressed oak, light brown) Carpet Court
Floors theatre and study, stairs, upstairs all but wet areas: (Carpet, off white,) Carpet Court
Kitchen benches : Avalanche, stone bench
Kitchen, bathroom, ensuite cabinets: Parchment, silk effects finish high gloss, Laminex Australia
Ensuite
Tiles floor 400x400 Drift Sand, Beaumont
Tiles walls 300x600 Drift Sand, Beaumont
Feature tile strip in shower Toffee blend, mosaics, Beaumont
No glass on shower, 1400x800 walk in
Spa Kado Lure, Reece
All other wet areas: Bathroom, laundry, powder room, toilet
Tiles Mondo Sand, Beaumont.
I must say how sad I was that my timber folding doors had to get the axe, due to them not being protected enough from rain and both Stegbar and Plantation recommending we go back to a timber window in the dining room. So we made the window bigger and we kept the other two timber doors in the lounge and other end of dining room. I'm sure the house will look great and it's going to be new and a project that we undertook together. I'll work on uploading plans of our mini mansion asap.
Next step plans off to developer and council :) Fingers crossed x
