Colour Selection

I have been working on this post forever.. I still might not get it all done in one go.. The main reason is that I kept changing my mind a thousand times on my floor colours, tile colours, kitchen colours etc. So I will see how I go and see if I actually have accurate photos of our selections.

Since we have a house full of browns now (carpets, kitchens, vanities etc) We decided to change it up and go the full house of GREY this time. This turned out ok in the end but I was wishing I had just gone with browns again for so long.. why?? Because there is sooo much more to choose from in brown tones. Anyway I struggled through it and am very happy with my selections in the end. Couldn't have done it without my 2 good friends that I have met along my building journey.. You guys know who you are.

So here goes... Internals first....

Kitchen

This changed a million times... End result is the following...

Benchtop - 20mm Quantum Quartz - Luna White

Island cabinets, sides and back overhang cabinets - Polytec - Classic White Sheen

Bar back, back base cabinets - Polytec - Stone Grey Sheen

Overhead Cabinets - Polytec - Stone Grey Sheen no handles

Splashback - Linea Grey (Beaumont Tiles)

This is where I got my kitchen colour inspiration from...

Laundry

You have to excuse the colours in the photo... not really indicative on the real colours. My phone camera was playing up on me.

Floor tile - 400x400 Highway Charcoal (Beaumont Tiles)

Lower Cabinets - Polytec Cavia Lini Sheen - horizontally laid

Overhead Cabinets - Polytec Stone Grey Sheen no handles

Bench - Polytec - Snow Fabrini

Splashback - 300x100 Gloss White Stack bond (Beaumont Tiles)

Bathrooms

Floor Tile - 400x400 Highway Charcoal

Wall Tile - 200x400 Classic Carrara White (this has a grey marble look through it)

Feature Tile - 200x400 Euphoria Charcoal with charred ash grout

Cabinets - Cavia Lini Sheen - horizontally laid

Benchtop - Quantum Quartz - Luna White

A closer look at our cabinetry colours.. I won't bother putting up the sample picture of the Stone Grey as its not even remotely close to the actual colour.

Polytec Cavia Lini

Quantum Quartz Luna White

Carpets and Laminate

This has been one of the biggest dramas of all. We originally wanted Vinyl planks and would still be happy having that if we found some in the colours we wanted. We had originally chosen a lovely grey vinyl plank but then I decided we just had WAY too much grey. So wanted to go something more neutral. We finally settled on a lovely laminate called Parador Trendtime 6 Oak Castell Limed.  Originally we were going for a charcoal carpet also but decided to go for a lighter grey to blend better with the floorboards. We haven't 100% chosen our carpet yet but will be something similar to the following:

Paint

Taubmans Gemini Silver

p.s... this is not our toilet :)

External Colours

We would have loved to flow the greys from the outside in...but unfortunately our brick choices were extremely limited due to Clarendon dropping Austral bricks as their supplier. Therefore we could only choose from PGH. The standard bricks were limited and there was no greys. The only greys available were massive upgrades and even then not really what we were looking for.

During a few trips to Sydney for other matters I got the chance to drive around some new estates where double storey brick homes (many of the Clarendon) were everywhere. I noticed dark brown or black brick homes were extremely popular and looked very nice.  We had both a brown and a black brick available in the standard range.  We were worried the black would look a bit too dark so we opted for the lovely chocolate brown coloured brick.. PGH Breaking Dawn.

PGH Breaking Dawn (ignore the colorbond samples)

We were fortunate enough to see a Plantation Homes display home being built using exactly our bricks. 

We really like it with the white cladding.. however we had already chosen our cladding colour by this time.. which is Colorbond Dune.

This is also the colour we chose for our garage door.

Our gutters and facias are Colorbond Monument

Roof Tiles are Bristile Magnum in Traditional profile

Windows are Trend Anodic Natural Matt (basically silver)

This pretty much wraps up our colour selection.. Let me know if I have missed anything. Can't wait to see it all come together :)

WOW so much work this week......

I figured that after our slab we wouldn't see any action on our block for at least a week... I was very wrong.... and it was lovely weather today on the Gold Coast for FRAMING!

Between dropping by after the school run and driving by again after playgroup 2 hours later most of the ground floor framing was up. Can't wait to go and walk through them this arvo on the way home... if they haven't locked us out that is.

Fenced OUT!

Who would have thought a bit of fencing and a big sign would be so exciting.... and frustrating.. I can no longer get in and walk on my slab :(

Plumbed, Boxed, Waffled and SLABBED!!!!

People kept telling me that once the build gets started that time flies and every time you go to see your block something new will be up... and they were right. Within a week and a half from site scrape our house had been pegged, our plumbing, electrical and telstra lead in completed, boxed and waffled for our slab and then our slab pour.. It was a very very exciting week for us and we were so grateful that all the forecasted bad weather didn't eventuate. Photo overload below....

We were also excited to realise we FINALLY had power to our estate... took us a few minutes to realise we were standing under a street light that was actually ON :)

We were also fortunate that Clarendon generously gave us a free swimming pool :)

FINALLY some action!

The waiting is finally over. Was soooo excited to see machines on our block 2 days early doing our site scrape and cut.. yes early!!!.. nothing has happened on time let alone early up until now. So we are off to a good start. They even rocked up at around 3.30pm to start and worked until after dark.. impressed!

Our site start was officially the 5th May 2015.

There was a much large cut behind the house than we were expecting but they have left the dirt behind from the cut so we really hope they plan to fill it back to slab level so we can get our level yard back.

Welcome to CONSTRUCTION!!

The wait is almost over. No more saying 2 more weeks, 2 more weeks, 1 more week, 3 more weeks... its THIS week... Our plans were approved for construction last Tuesday and our earthworks are booked for Thursday 7th May.... Super super excited.. Stay tuned for some piccies :)