Okay back again to go through the paint colour choices so far (which as we know are very liable to change at least another 50 times)!! Please excuse my terrible photos.
First are my (new) choices for the exterior. All colours are by Dulux:
Mint Twist is the top colour. As the name suggests it's a mint colour. This one will be for the front door and for my window boxes.
Meniscus is the middle colour and is a light grey. This will be the colour for all the weatherboards.
Woodland Grey is the bottom colour. This is a colorbond colour and the colour for our roof. It's also the colour I'd like to paint the porch.
Vivid White is to the side and is the colour for all the trim. So windows, doors and posts for the verandah and porch. This will also be used inside on all the trim too :)
Next is Kitchen:
Distant Shore is the blue and it's by British Paints. I like it because it's a dirtier light blue rather than a bright one. This will go along the back wall of the kitchen and on the back and sides of the island.
Soyanut is the bench top I'd like to use. It's a good quality cut-to-measure laminate and it's pretty cheap which is important with a small budget!
Master Bedroom are all Dulux:
French Limestone up the top is for the walls.
Mildura on the bottom will be for the barn doors to add a bit of contrast.
Eldest Son's Room are also all Dulux:
Top left is Symphony Red. Not 100% sure about this red yet but the red will be used as a stripe around the room, the Union Jack on his desk and his bunk beds.
Vivid White is top left. As well as the trim he will also have it for two thinner white stripes either side of the red stripe.
Passionate Blue on the bottom will be the wall colour and his desk colour.
I grabbed so many paint samples that I forgot to grab colours for my middle son's room so will have to go back another day. So onto the Girls' room. These ones are both British Paints colours:
Temperate Tide is the top colour and is actually quite a bright aqua in real life. It didn't photograph very well. This will be the main wall colour.
Pink Perfume will be the colour of the Argyle diamonds on the feature wall as well as the colour for the cube unit.
I'll go Half Strength with these two.
So that's all for now :)
Obviously the walls of the retreat will be the same colour as the Master bedroom given it's really just the same room. For lighting I have decided to use the same type of chandelier as in the Master Bedoom except slightly smaller. So we will go with Ivory&Deene's 3 arm Marie Therese- Grace chandelier:
There are already built in wardrobes which is great. This means that along the other wall I can have something I have always wanted to have in a house- a large bookcase with a ladder to house my thousands of books! I found this one from an eBay seller by the name of dvine-dezign:
It's just lovely (´ ▽｀).。ｏ♡ It still probably won't fit all my books but it's stunning and I love it.
There are 3 things I have always really wanted in my house but haven't had room for.. The first two I have now mentioned- a claw foot bath and a bookcase with a ladder. The third one will also go in the retreat- a chaise lounge. I found this absolutely stunning Priscilla chaise lounge on Mint Black and it's actually a very reasonable price too:
I am thinking I will position it with it's back towards the bookcase in the middle of the retreat. I am also thinking I might get another round side/lamp table to sit near it.
In the retreat I think I will also have a rug. I'm not sure which one yet but probably something like one of these:
I also have a display cabinet with my dragon collection in it that will go in this room next to the bookcase.
I'm going to do the master bedroom in two parts, so this half will be the actual bedroom half and tomorrow I'll talk about the retreat half.
The bedrooms are where the painted walls will change a bit. We will still have the chair rail and darker grey at the bottom but in our room, I'm planning on painting white stripes on the light grey above the chair rail. Here's a pic of grey and white stripes on a wall just in case you don't know what that looks like haha:
I would also like to have a chandelier above the bed though not quite as huge as the Living room one. I decided to go with the 5 arm version of it though from Ivory&Deene:
The bed has given me the most trouble. There are so many gorgeous French Provincial beds I love but the thing I am noticing about my love of French Furniture is how expensive it is (´；Д；｀) I have finally found a bed I love though that costs a reasonable amount that I can actually afford. It's the Queen Size Brittany Bed by Early Settler. It's stunning:
I really love the turning on the legs!
For side tables that will complement the legs I think I will go for two of these ones by Mint Black
I think they should go beautifully with the carved bed. I also quite like these bedside lamps from eBay seller sparklez128:
I am also considering having a dressing table against the wall at the foot of the bed. It should fit nicely if I have done my measurements correctly and the one I found also by Mint Black is gorgeous:
It's just so, so beautiful and again very reasonably priced! (‘∀’●)♡
