The facade we've chosen for our house. Ours will look different as we are having six 600mm double hung windows across the front.
Colour selection for the outside of the house
Our PGH brick "Henna"
Since we've been planning this house since June last year we've had quite some time to come up with what we would like to see in our house. Originally we wanted to build another Queenslander style home, after visiting various kit home companies who provided that sort of home. We decided, however that we didn't want to build a house ourselves and that by getting a builder to do it for us it was just simply out of our price range. So, we went on another search to find the home of our dreams. We eventually (after a suggestion by Mum and Paul) found a house that we really liked the outside of, but weren't overly keen on the floor plan. The house had red bricks with white mortar, a black flat tiled roof and a cream portico, garage door and framing around the windows.
We then set about finding out how we could build the home of our dreams, but with a similar facade to the one we'd seen. We went to PGH bricks who were very helpful in finding the colours for the outside of our home. They suggested Henna bricks with a Monier Horizon tile in Sambucca. They even suggested colours for the guttering, fascia, garage door, windows and front door. I can't praise the girls at PGH, Oxley enough. They were so helpful and even gave us colour chips to take with us when we finally get to do our colour selection. The image above shows the colour selection for the outside of our house.
That solved the problem of selecting colours for the outside of the house, but we were still left with deciding on the inside. As most of you would know, I love colour in a home, so I have already decided what colours I want to do in most of the rooms. However, we won't be getting Coral to paint the rooms in these colours as they charge over $200 per wall and we think it's a gross waste of money to get them to paint a room for $800. At this stage we've chosen Dulux Antique White USA for the main wall colours and are hoping that Coral will allow us to choose another colour for the trim. We'd like a whiter white for the trim. We intend to paint the theatre room, our bedroom, Milly's room, the study and the formal lounge dining room when the house is handed over.
Paint colours:
Dulux Antique White USA - all main walls
Dulux Domino (same colour as the trim on our last house was) - theatre room and master bedroom
Dulux Sweet Pink - this colour but only quarter strength (this is way too intense) - Milly's room
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