Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Laminates - why do they make so many?

Well - laminates... After being told by my interior designer friend to ALWAYS choose lamintes before tiles and flooring... I failed.

I was lured by the beautiful tiles in Myaree ceramics. I knew I wanted an eggshelly colour for the benchtops in the bathrooms so I just left it for later.

Finally I picked a colour called Sandstone

The Cupboard colour will be megawhite - you can guess what colour that is. lol.

The Kitchen is also going to be all megawhite as I have a white stone benchtop with large-ish sized quarts, so I think that is enough colour. q-stone Artic.

I also chose a limestone paver from Brickmakers. I love it. I'll need it to be sealed though so I am not out there with a scrubber after every gathering.

After all these decison making, I think I have com to realise that you need to be true to your own colours. I was caught up in current trens etc. Many of my friends and family will tell I am not a modern clean lines sort of person.

I want my house to feel like our home. Not a fashion forward home.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Tiles Tiles and More Tiles

 I changed all my tiles - these are some of the colours, they are all Porcelain tiles, the one below is the bathrooms splash back, and then the girls will have a large 600x300 tile on the wall and a 300x300 similar colour tile on the floor. James and I have a leveled porcelain tile which is polished in some areas and not in others.... very beautiful... very $$$$
Below is our kitchen tile, ours the bottom colour. It is actually a ceramic tile (yey) but it has a mitred edge which gives its it glass look.



I am having trouble with my elevation colours. The top image is the display, but I like the other 2's colours.. just trying to incorporate... hmmm.