Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Jan 27, 2012 1:53 pm Would love to see pics of your selections for your houses please:) Outside bricks, roofing ect and inside tiles, wall paint colour doors ect. Are there any magazines that are good for ideas too? Hae finally picked our builder and selections are getting closer and we have very little idea!! Re: Your selections! 2Jan 28, 2012 6:53 am A good place to start is to find out if your estate and council have any colour restrictions/guidelines. That will narrow down the search. I also found PGH website good. If you pic a brick colour range it gives you suggestions on what colour gutters and roof will go with. The best advice I have though is to go to the brick places see the walls set up and get samples then you can play around with them and roof colours. Re: Your selections! 3Jan 28, 2012 7:45 am We went through lots of display homes. I also looked at lots of magazines (any that are home/house related ie Home Beautiful, Country homes etc) to get an idea of what sort of style we wanted. Cut out any pictures of things you like and put them together....you'll soon see (hopefully!) that you have a theme going!! Of course, don't forget the web - and here at H1 - particuarly threads like the 'show me your kitchen' thread..... Also have a look at Studio M website - it's by M3tric0n but you can choose different colours for inside and outside your home to gain an idea of how things look. The colourbond website also has a similar thing for exterior colours. Do you know what range/choices you have with your builder? Good luck! Choosing colours is exciting and very nerve wracking - I'm about 6 weeks ago from knowing if our choices are going to work!! Our building thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=51657 How much are you ahead in payments compared to where the build is at? Have you fully drawn down the loan? 5 11915 Thanks mate. Yeah good points! Leaning towards Option 3 to get a bit extra space in the cabinets but not going too crazy high (and expensive). Would require a mini… 13 39690 Broker here - legislation says that every true broker must put the clients best interests before theirs so in theory they must offer you the best options for you on their… 2 46010 |