Colour selections

Yesterday was our colour selection day. We met with our colour consultant and proceeded to agonise over the external colour selection for about an hour. We really liked the external colours of this house:

We ended up choosing PGH Spinifex Poa bricks, Colorbond Jasper fascia, Colorbond Dune guttering and White Birch aluminium windows.

Colorbond colours are now available as a standard paint so we decided to match our front door to the fascia much like the picture above. With timber doors, darker colours can cause buckling, so it's important to only use darker colours on external doors that are shaded (like our front door - see the facade in the first blog post). The remainder of our external doors will be painted in Colorbond Dune (matching the gutters) because they are not as well protected from the sun.

We also went for a Steel-line Decro DC-40 slimline garage door. This door has a timber-look but is actually aluminium, meaning the cost is much lower and there are no issues with timber drying out, warping or rotting.

With the internal colours, a workmate with two young children recommended Taubmans Living Proof Silk. Our standard paint is Taubmans Living Proof washable so we'll be checking to see what the price difference is to go to the Silk (Teflon) paint.

We ended up choosing Taubmans Hazel Snow for most of the internal walls, with the trim in Taubmans Promised Land. We also selected a number of feature walls, one in Taubman's Cabbage Cove (family room), one in Taubman's Green Tea (Main bedroom) and one in a red still to be selected. Here is a photo of a display home showing Cabbage Cove around the fireplace with Hazel Snow on the walls and a Promised Land trim (the colour is actually nicer in real life):


Here is an image from Eden Brae's website showing a very similar colour to Green Tea on the feature wall:



The service again was excellent, even though we went over time.