Selections continue

Well I'm knackered. We left home at 830 this morning and got home at 430 this afternoon. We've spent all day with Ashlea from A Positive Design, who helped us with most of our colour selections for the new house.

We met Ashlea at Crosby Tiles just before 9am and set about choosing all the tiles, benchtops and cabinet colours for every room in the house. We are doing tiled floors for all the main downstairs areas from the front door through to the scullery and all living areas in between so we started with that one. 

Selections then continued from there with all of the following decided over the course of 3.5 hours: main floor tile, laundry floor tile, powder room floor tile, bathroom & guest ensuite floor and wall tiles, master ensuite floor and wall tiles, benchtops and cupboard colours for all the aforementioned 
rooms, island cabinet colours, kitchen lower and upper cabinet colours, balcony floor tiles and alfresco floor tiles. Naturally we didn't like everything in the standard builders range so we're expecting a number of expensive variations to come out of this session.

After a brief stop we changed locations to Homebase Subiaco where we saw larger samples of the benchtops which made us question our selection a bit so we've ended up with two options being priced up for them now. We needed to move on so we started on the outside of the house. We had to choose roof colour, gutter colour, flashing colour, window frame colour, render colour, highlight render colour, garage door colour and style, front door colour and style, laundry door colour and style, internal door colour and style, internal wall paint colour, door frame colour, door handles for internal doors, door handle for external doors, paving/aggregate colour, balastrading colour, down pipe colour, capping colour and finally bathroom and ensuite window style (clear/opaque). Again a number of non-standard selections so more price variations coming our way.

It's hard to believe that there are any other selections left but there are still heaps. We've got pre-start this coming Tuesday where we're expecting another 3+ hours of decisions and selections (and price variations). On top of all that we got back our revised electrical plan from James at Custom Electric so we're also reviewing that and making further changes (mainly in an effort to bring down that revised quote figure, which was scary). Wish us luck!!