Second guessing...

I'm so indecisive about some things.

After realising that most of the laundries I've pinned on my laundry pinterest board are white I changed our laundry cabinet to polar white (prob more to do with the fact that there would be no extra cost to have the shaker styled doors I coveted).

Then I got to thinking again (probably not a good idea) about how the kitchens I pin on my kitchen pinterest board are mainly white shaker kitchens. ARGHHHHH! Time to go back to the drawing board. Do I want parchment our original choice (which is a creamy white) or a polar white (white white) kitchen? GAHHH!!!!  I just can't decide. I tell myself to go with what we first chose, but I keep going back to it...

So there's only one thing to do - go back to Hopetoun tomorrow and talk to someone there about my kitchen colour choices.

Color Selection

Today we had our colour and electrical appointments.

Really pleased with how it's all coming together.



Exterior Colours:

Bricks: Boral Rouge

Windows: White Birch

Feature Render: Dune

Roof, gutters, facia, downpipes: Woodland Grey

Garage Door: Dune

Internal Colours:

Walls: Lushious White

Trim: First Snow

Tiles, Wall Colour, Trim, Window Frames

Kitchen:

The picture below isn't a good indicator  of the colours - they really do go together 'in real life!'

Bench: Osprey Caesar Stone 20mm bench and 40mm island with waterfall edge - nice!!!
Cupboard Doors: Shaker Profile in Laminex Parchment (now changed to Polar White)
Glass splashback: Limed White (Starfire glass) - (now changed to Limed White Half)
Bench in Pantry: ...

Wall Colour, Glass Splashback, Laminex, Bench

Bathrooms:

Floor and Bathroom Tiles: Shell Matte Bianco Satin 
Bathroom cupboard doors and benches: Laminex Palisander
Splashback and feature tiles: Strata Glass Format 24 #9 Biscuit (similar to pic below)

Laundry:


Floor Tiles: Shell Matte Bianco Satin 
Cupboard doors: Laminex Polar White
Bench: Formica Brushed Silver
Splashback: White Gloss 75x150mm Subway Tile

Flooring:

We haven't decided whether to go with the flooring package or not. While we like the look of the Bolero Timber Look Laminate Flooring (Rustic Coffee is our choice) we're not sure that we actually want a laminate flooring. I don't like the idea of how it can't get wet and I also don't like how it's clicky when you walk on it.

So we're looking at the Allura Vinyl Plank flooring that is available at Harvey Norman, and then will get carpet elsewhere. Hopefully the vinyl plank will come up on sale before handover. To save $ we'll install it ourselves (it's really easy to DIY and it certainly is within our skill ability to do it).

Allure Vinyl Plank Flooring - Vintage Oak Cinnamon

Electrical Selections:

Basically we doubled the number of power points, threw in a few extra lights, added in some LED down lights and added some two way switches. We are putting a power point inside each of the vanities (handy for rechargeable shavers and toothbrushes, and it gets them off the bench), one in the broom cupboard (for the dust buster) as well as three in the pantry. We certainly didn't do anything extravagant and will put in our exterior lights after handover (they will be wired up and ready to go).



Land:

The land is coming along in leaps and bounds! So exciting! They've got most of the gutters in now.  Hopefully it won't be too long!

Hopetoun Interiors ... again

We went to Hopetoun last weekend and got a list of the colours etc in the Drysdale in Point Cook.

Kitchen
Bench-top - Almond Rocca (category 2 I think) - we've chosen Osprey (category 1 - standard)
Cabinet Doors - Pumice
Overhead Doors - Oyster Linea Laminate
Glass Splashback - Starphire glass Hog Bristle 1/2 Strength

Bathrooms
Vanity Bench and doors - Divine Oak Laminate

Walls
Flokati

Tiles
Chamois Matt - Brick Bond 300x600 (upgrade)

We went to National Tile on the weekend too, we chose Portifino FA01 Shell Matt Bianco Satin 400x400 (standard range) and will probably upgrade to the small mosaic tiles like in the display

Window colours currently available in the lifestyle range:
White
Primrose
Surfmist
Jasper
Ultra Sheer Gloss (grey)

Paperbark
Satin Black
Woodland Grey

So now we are trying to work out our exterior colours. I love Porters Paints Old Stone Wall, and hope to find something the same in Dulux for the render.

Thinking that we'll go with white windows and facia, and Windspray for the roof, garage door, gutters, etc

Tomorrow we're meeting again with our Sales Consultant to go over our quote.

Construction has started on our estate. Very excited to see trucks and diggers, gravel and pipes on the land (they are there, it just hard to see in the pic, I'll take my camera next time rather than the phone)

Hopetoun Interiors

We went to Hopetoun Interiors yesterday.

It was exciting to see all the things you can choose. Luckily we are pretty happy with the standard items and won't be upgrading too many things.  Our head is spinning from the color selections though.  We're glad we like the Point Cook display's kitchen and bathroom cupboards so we'll probably just choose the same as the display for those items.

The hard part is choosing the exterior colours.  One problem with Hopetoun is that they don't provide paint chips in the colors for the windows, roofs, colorbond, and it's really hard to put the colors together b/c they're on a white background so you can't see what they look like right next to each other. So we went to Bunnings on the way home and got some Dulux color chips. We thought we liked Surfmist for the windows when we were at Hopetoun, now we're home and looking at the paint chip, we're not so keen on it and can't remember all the other colors on offer (and didn't take pics of them all).

We were thinking of Surfmist for the window frames, Camel Train for the render, Woodland Grey for the roof and gutters, and Paperbark for the facia and garage door.  Now we are unsure. Oh well, another trip back to Hopetoun and we'll record all the colours you can choose from for the windows and colorbond and then get the paint chips and go from there.

National Tiles weren't open yesterday so we'll have to go back anyway so we can choose our tiles.

Some Window Colours

Possible selection of render and window colour - Camel Train and Surfmist

Garage Door Style

Standard door knobs

Door knob upgrades - even one with remote!!!

Internal door knobs - standard

Hoping to have this door for Master bedroom, theatre, garage internal access, pantry and door to boys area

Caesar Stone Bench - Ice Snow - Standard

Tap upgrade to category 2

Standard basin

Rustic Coffee Timber Laminate Floor