(btw what colour are your walls (if you don't mind sharing), that too is a beautiful colour).
Thanks the walls are wattyl chalk beige. There are a few houses on the forum that used it, especially other PD customers.
With the bulkhead I took my "wenge" laminate sample into Bunnings to find a colour match and ended up with "misson brown". Who would have thought we would be buying that colour again in our lifetimes?