Monday 26 May 2014

External colours … achievement unlocked!

With our the date of our external colour and plan presentation looming, we had to get out to the brick and roofing display centres quickly. We thought we would have an interminable drag around the outer suburbs of Sydney to choose our combination.

How wrong were we (and pleasantly surprised too!). We managed to settle on our bricks and roofing tiles, and all the other bits an pieces in just under two hours! I’m not sure if we were just lucky, or because of some serious thought and consideration that brought that about. We’ve gone with a brick that is on the upgrades list, but just under $1000 extra (PGH Espresso) and Monier tiles in the Horizon range (part of the upgrade package we bought with the house). From our research, we had an idea that this might look good (as you can see here) and when we got to the display centre, they had a little wall and roof set up in exactly the colours we were considering, and we were so impressed that that we stopped looking at bricks and tiles there and then.

The only thing left to do was pick all the Colorbond colours – and with the excellent help from the staff at PGH, this again was handled very quickly. We’ve gone with Surfmist windows, flyscreens, stacker door and garage door, the fascia and guttering will be Dune and the rainwater tank and downpipes will be painted in Monument. The samples below aren’t quite accurate – the roof tiles aren’t quite as yellow, for instance:

External Colours

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