We did a lot of research into colours before our colour selection day which was a HUGE help! We visited heaps of display homes, looked at colour selection documents from lots of display homes, visited stores and looked at the products and (much to Luke's embarrassment and disgust!) knocked on peoples doors and asked them! This for me was the most helpful and valuable. Everyone's house who I stalked was really helpful and happy to share their knowledge. I think people had a sense of pride in being asked about a product on their house that appealed to others! It was also so much more helpful for me to see colours and products in real light in the real size, rather than trying to picture it all on a 10cm colour swatch. I'm really happy with all the decisions that we made. I'm nervous about the colours on the facade because its so hard to picture it all together and it's not something you can hide if you don's like it. Hopefully the end result is better than we can piece together in our minds. Having a husband who is half colour blind also didn't help the process, "That will do," was his philosophy when he thought I had spent way too much time over analysing every component!
Here are some of our exterior colour choices made on February 14th 2014;
Front facade and colour choices =
Bricks - Boral Mocha - Category 4 with off white mortar
Roof - Woodland Grey Colourbond Steel
Gutters and fascias - Woodland Grey Colourbond
Windows - Black Aluminium
Front doors - 2 x 2340mm x 820mm Wooden clear grazed doors - Rich Walnut (upgrade)
Render Area 1 - Hog Bristle 1/2 strength - lightest sandy colour (The largest part includes; garage, front around windows, all upstairs areas including gable)
Render Area 2 - Bed Box - middle brown colour (2 L shaped projection parts at front)
Pier - Tiled in Eco Alabaster Grigio Porcelain tiles (originally we were going to render in the charcoal - Terrible Billy but changed to tiles)(upgrade)
Garage Door - Decowood Timberlook Sectional - Bush Cherry (upgrade)
We have full render on the front facade, wrapped around the edges of the houses
Exterior Colours
Render and Garage Door
(not using charcoal render anymore)
Porcelain Tiles for Front Pier - Sandy colour
Front Entry Doors
Garage Door - Decowood Timberlook Sectional - Bush Cherry
(Photo taken on a stalking mission!)
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