House-Building: "look out for the orange door..."

It wasn't too difficult to choose a house design. We quite quickly settled on building the Moreland 27 with Porter Davis (Access Range); it fitted on our small block, and met our needs and requirements. I realised that within a year Porter Davis had decided to remove the house design from their range. Hmm... maybe this will mean our house will be rare-ish and less of a mass-produced, cookie-cutter house then!

Exterior - Cardiff Facade

This is how the exterior will be, ground floor would be exposed brick; upstairs will be weatherboard. I have a tendency to like a mix of textures and materials, so really like how there's a variety of materials used in the exterior. Plus it turned out that it was cheaper than having both storeys brick; so yay - on an extremely rare event, my first preference wasn't the most expensive.

Exterior - colours

The Husband and I almost never disagreed on the design, look or colours when we had to select our materials and colours; for which I am incredibly thankful! Possibly because we either (i) have the same style vision for our home, or (ii) he has not much style, but I'm just ridiculously convincing and can sell ice to an eskimo.

The biggest decision we had to make for our exterior was the brick. We had driven around across town like idiots looking at different houses that were being built with different bricks etc. But on a walk, we had seen a gorgeous riverfront house which expressed what we had in mind, and luckily we brought a photo of it into our Colour Selection appointment. Our Interior Designer who helped us with our colour selection took a look at it, and reckoned we could achieve a similar look by upgrading our brick to a Category 4 brick, i.e. Mocha, and upgrading our mortar to off-white.  This was fantastic, as prior to the appointment, we were thinking that we had little choice but to upgrade to a Category 6 brick (i.e. Espresso) to get what we want.

Ooh, and I was adamant that I wanted to have that orange door.....