Colours, colours... yet more colours!

We went through to Eynesbury again on Saturday to look at the various houses to see which bricks we liked.  The people from Eynesbury were very helpful and offered to help identify the different bricks, we just had to pick the houses.  So off we went.  We picked about 10 houses, 9 of them in Stage 7.  Of the 10, 5 were Austral Homestead Tan, 4 were Austral Latrobe (Discontinued...) and 1 was Boral Labassa.  The Homestead Tan in the photo in the Austral pamphlet looks nothing like the real thing.

So we'll be back there again this weekend to check on those houses and pick which of the two we like most, Homestead Tan, or Labassa, both of which will apparently be an upgrade ($$$?).

We have chosen Sandy Day for the walls, with Toffee Fingers in the Theatre room.  Lexicon for the roof and Bedbox for the front door.  The kitchen will be a mixture of Polytec's Classic White Gloss with New Barron Alder Gloss, both in Thermolaminated vinyl wrap.  The kitchen and bathroom countes will be White Shimmer caesarstone.  The splashback is a special colour Michelle picked.  All the window frames, gutters, etc. will be Woodland Grey.

We'll likely be going with laminate flooring in the main areas, with carpets in the bedrooms, study and theatre.

One last thing.  Stage 3 had at least 2 Urban Edge houses that were bricked and roofed already.  Damn they are fast.

Colours, part 2.

So I didn't post the names of the colours because well... we're probably going to change half of them.  The bricks in the photo do not look that nice in reality, which is frustrating.  Not only that, but of the Category 1 and Category 2 bricks that Urban Edge offers us as part of our options, it appears there are only 4...yes...just 4... that Eynesbury has approved... jaw dropping.  We have been told that Eynesbury has not approved a single PGH brick, and Urban Edge only other normal offering is Boral.  To get Austral bricks would be an upgrade.  So of the wopping 38 brick types in Categories 1 and 2, listed in the colour book we were given, NONE, ZIP, ZERO, are apparently approved.  Boggles the mind.

So we're trying to get a definitive list from Eynesbury, but we're really confused, as we've seen so many nice bricks in Stage 7 where most of the building is going on right now.  We're wonderring if we should go ask the various builders what bricks they're using.  :)

Unfortunately, our toddler was quite sick over the weekend, so we didn't get much of a chance to look around at show houses.  This weekend however...

Colours...

So today we had our colour appointment.  We've never been to one, so weren't sure what to expect.

Well, we were exhausted by the end.  Sooo many choices.  Anyway, we've picked a variety of stuff...and we'll be thinking a lot about them, and going to see lots of show houses this weekend to double check on our selection.  Below is a picture of our initial selection...we'll see if we stick to that or not... The bricks we want to at least see on a real house...

I'll explain each colour a bit later.

Eynesbury Stage 10

We went out to see Eynesbury again - we enjoy going out there for the peacefulness - and we saw that Stage 10 is now under construction.  It's a building site, so you can just see it, but no going into it.

We did a better inspection of where our lot will be, and we've noticed that the plans of Eynesbury seem to indicate - still want to confirm this with them - that the two small dams near Stage 9 and Stage 11 are going to be kept.  That will make that reserve area an amazing place to go walking.

We were also very impressed to see 3 houses at framing stage already in Stage 3, and another almost done with its slab.  And can you believe it, they're ALL Urban Edge.  Great news for us considerring we want to start building as soon as our land titles.