Another Busy Weekend Planned

Well after having last weekend off with the kids, it's back onto the house stuff for us. We will be spending Saturday 1st September looking through all the Henley displays (in the nearest village)to make sure we have all the colours just right. The tiles, cupboards, caeserstone, brick and render colours etc.

We have an information session with Cosham Interiors booked on Sunday 2nd September and a Colour selection appt next Friday the 7th of September. So this is our last chance to make selections and see how they look in a larger scale. Choosing colours from a tiny sample and a single tile is not what i call an enjoyable experience.

We are pretty well planned so far though. I keep colour samples, we have sample bricks and roof tiles that we continue to look at and re-confirm that is what we want to look at for a long time to come. I do not want anything that is going to be a "fad" and will be outdated in a few years so i am conservative with my colour selections and think that i can always accentuate with accessories.

I know that when we sold our last place. We had so many compliments on the decor and so many offers on the table on D day that proved we had presented the house tastefully. We know that we need to keep things neutral and the lines clean.

Our colour schemes are fairly neutral, beige colour walls with some darker feature walls here and there, black and white for accents and timber floors, with darker brown/grey colour carpets. We have black leather sofas from our old lounge suite, which will have to do for now. But i'm sure that i can buy more stuff. You know what they say, out with the old and in with the new.... (much to hubby's dismay).

We are not changing much....(yeh right!) The c/stone, tiles, door furniture and even the toilets are being upgraded just to mention a few, so we want to make sure that we are 100% positive on what we want.

I am looking forward to more space though. Having a kids room has really excited our 2 little ones. They can keep it as long as it is kept clean!!! (mum's rules)
We will have multiple entertainment areas, 1. the Family room, 2. The Theatre/Rumpus room and 3. The Kids Retreat. Not that i don't mind being a family unit. But our family-members have very different views on what they like to watch & do.
Hubby likes to watch car racing, 10yo likes to play Playstation, 3yo likes to watch kids movies & car racing with daddy and i enjoy movies. So needless to say that sitting down in front of one TV ends up as an issue most times.

I get quite excited at this stage. i love this aspect of the building/renovating process. Anyway, we'll update the blog on Sunday with our choices. I'll see if i can get some photos together to upload of the colour selections.

A little piece of normailty.

It was our first weekend for a long, long time that we didn't go looking at display homes, didn't look at interior colours & concepts, bricks, flooring etc. We didn't even go down to stare at our bit of dirt.....

It was nice to spend the weekend playing with our children and being "normal". Sometimes we tend to forget what is most important in the world. Sounds soppy i know, but it is nice to stop worrying about the building process every now and then. It brings a sense of normality to our usually busy lives.

Until next time.....