Colour Palettes

Exterior Colour Choices

We took a long time deciding on external colours. What ended up determining the colour palette was the fact that every door colour was an additional cost except white (or Surfmist. It's a colorbond colour). We had decided between a 'wood look' garage door or a white garage door and when we realised that it was going to cost an extra $500 to have a 'wood look' garage door, we went with the white instead. It wasn't worth that much to us. Plus we wanted to have the front door matching the garage door and to have a stained wooden front door was going to be an extra cost as well. 

The Surfmist colour swatch above is not very accurate. It looks more grey here but in real life it looks like an off-white. The photo is a more accurate representation of the Surfmist colour. Have a look at the colorbond website for Surfmist.

Internal Colour Choices

The only thing more difficult than choosing the exterior colour palette, was choosing the internal colour palette :) I really really wanted to pick Statuario Nuvo from the Caesarstone range for the bench tops in the kitchen and bathrooms but it was from the most expensive range. Of course! Always the way. 

So we picked a neutral colour that came as standard for the kitchen bench top called White Shimmer from Caesarstone and went from there. Once again the colour swatches aren't very accurate but I've included them because it lists the colours below each and where the colour will be. The photo is more accurate. The sample with the green dot is White Shimmer for the kitchen bench tops and the sample with the red dot is Frosty Carina for the bathroom and ensuite vanity bench tops. We decided to splash out a bit of extra cost on the bathroom bench tops and go for the marble look in those rooms because it was a fraction of the cost compared to doing it to the kitchen. Only because you obviously need more of the stone in the kitchen.  

The small white tile sitting on top of the sample with the green dot is the tile that we are having on the kitchen splash back. We could have gone for the glass spash back at no extra cost because it was included in our 'Impressions' package, however, I didn't really like the glass. Only because we chose satin (a semi gloss finish) kitchen cupboards and I felt the glass would make it look too clinical. The tiles will be layed in a brick pattern and they are texture so I'm hoping it will look smashing :)

Originally, we chose formica silver Strata for the bar back in the kitchen. But I ended up changing it to the same white as the cupboards a few months after we had our appointment which cost extra to change it. We decided that we wanted the kitchen to be really neutral just incase we got over grey. 

Hopefully everything else is self explanatory! Hope I've helped someone :)

Much love,

                   A x