Pre Selection Day Colour Choices

I never really thought choosing colours would be 'all that hard'. My, oh my, how I was wrong.

We both have very similar tastes and were readily agreeable to a grey colour scheme. My original intention was to have 40mm grey stone benchtops in the kitchen with waterfall edges. Now I am worried that the grey waterfall edges will clash with the grey tiles that I think we have decided on.

So... do I go with a white stone top with grey specks in it, keeping the waterfall edges? Or do I go for no waterfall edges and keep the grey stone top?



Colour ideas.

External - Option 1
Bricks - PGH Mild Steel
Mortar - Off white
Roof - Basalt Colourbond
Gutters - Basalt Colourbond
Fascia - Surfmist
Eaves - Taubmans Winter Ice
Windows - APO Grey (Stegbar)
Garage - Basalt

External - Option 2

As above but with Dune in place of surmist. We would then had gutters, downpipes and rain water tank in Dune also. 

PGH Bricks - Mild Steel

Colourbond Colours

Taubmans Colours

Paint
Feature wall in foyer - Taubmans Apache Stone Stonebridge
Internal walls - Winter Ice or June Fog
Skirting and Doors - As above but in a semi gloss 
Ceiling - Standard ceiling white


Kitchen

Havent decided between polar white gloss or poly satin.
All white. Possibly a Sorbet Essastone benchtop with waterfall edges.
Light frey / Silver glass splashback. 

Brick Colour Selection - or so I thought

We packed the kids in the car and made the hour long trip out to the block of land to show the husband our block (we bought site unseen!).

While there we decided to pop over and have a look and the PGH Brick and Paving colour selection centre.

Can I just say that trying to look at bricks with a 3 1/2 yo and a 14 month old is not exactly my idea of a fun family day out. Apparently the bricks were not particularly exciting for the 3 yo, and I thought it would only be a matter of time before she had her hand stuck in a water feature ;-)

We had originally wanted a dark grey brick, but was turned off by the fact that the brick isn't a full colour and if the grey chips at all then you end up with orange brick showing through.

Next we chose the colour cement, but then realised that the neighbour had that colour also and wanted to break the colour up a little. So we found another brick called Mild Steel which is one or two shades darker than Cement. PGH printed us out a list of houses that have built with the Mild Steel brick and we set about checking them out. We also picked a couple of the highest class range in case they actually turn out to be affordable (doubt it). Those colours were Smoke and Concord. In the B range we are looking at Gravel, it looks great but there are already 12 houses in that colour in our Estate.



Cement



Mild Steel
 


Unfortunately Mid Steel looks a lot lighter than I expected. Really disappointed.

Here is the PGH Bricks Ranges as of July 2014.

I also have the full excel spreadsheet of all of the addresses to drive by and view ALL of the colours of bricks.


Update:

We ended up going with Mild Steel. I love the brick. Google earth really doesn't give an accurate reflection of the true colour, so we went back to PGH with the choice of Cassica or Mid Steel in mind.

For those building with Eden Brae, just to let you know that to upgrade to Cassica or Mild Steel (Both from the D range) was $1728. We removed the Moroka that was already in included in our package which gave us a $2000 credit. I jumped straight at the bricks and looked at it as an even swap in my eyes :-)

Deposit Paid - Guess we are building a house!

So today we paid our $1000 deposit for our block of land and our $1000 deposit for our home.

Our situation is a little different in that our land is already registered and our house has already been approved through council. We are hoping that we can get through the administration stage as quickly as possible. There seems to have been a fair few upgrades made already by the original purchasers, and that has been included in our cost. Our Tender appointment is On Friday 18th July, 2014 so we will find out everything that has been included and what we will need to pay extra for. We have an Electrician in the family, so our guess is that the previous people upgraded all of the electrical items and nothing else, just our luck!

Because there is already council approval we are pretty much restricted from making any changes to the external plans of the property. If we do the plans have to be resubmitted for approval by the Council. We definitely want to avoid that, so we will be trying to only stick with personalising the colour choices for paint, tiles, carpet, kitchen etc.

We are building a Customised Drysdale 27 by Eden Brae.