Colour choices

Now to the fun part. My Dad came to visit to help us do our colour selection. We realised pretty early on that we were a bit hopeless in this department. The numerous arguements that followed a trip to the tile shop was good evidence of this!

Thankfully, we had Dad to help us take the stress out of this step, and I must say that it has been the most fun part of the process so far. The rest of the time has been spent waiting for various authorities to rubber stamp our paperwork and everything feels like it takes such a long time and is very frustrating as you have no control over anything! Except your colour selection - so here goes......

Our colour choices are:

Roof tile - Barramundi

Bricks - Presto Perisher

Fascia - Monument

Garage door - Monument - contemporary style

Downpipes - Paperbark

Kitchen laminates - Formica Amaretto (benchtop) & Laminex Stipple hemp and Tawny linewood (horizontal stripe) for cupboards and drawers

Main bath - Evening shale (benchtop) and stringybark (horizontally) for cupboards

Ensuite - Stipple seal (benchtop) and Ebony belezza (horizontally) for cupboards.

I cant remember our paint colour name but it is a couple of shades lighter than this........

In the beginning.....

Hi All,

We have decided to start a blog to share our building experience with all of our friends and family who wish to take this journey with us. We started on this wonderful, but incredibly stressful at times, road in late 2008 when we decided that the first home owner boost of $21,000 meant that we might be able to afford to enter the housing market. Having been renting on acreage we decided that we wanted to buy an acre of our very own in the gorgeous suburb of New Beith. So we did.......the land contract settled in March 2009.

He is a photo of us looking proud as punch at our little plot of land :)

Then came the fun part, choosing the type of house that we wanted to build. We decided to build the Baroness 274 with Coral Homes. This model suited the lay of the land that we had bought and thought that it would be a lovely family home for our future children. We made a few modifications and made the plan our own. We love it - what do you think?