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 :-)