Some corners of our painted home

So, there are 7 different internal colours...the painters just loved me! We have the resene colours half tea on all the kitchen, lounge and family walls, tea in the master bedroom and double tea in the foyer plus half black-white in the downstairs bedrooms and all bathrooms, quarter black-white on celings and trims throughout and finally, feature walls in the kid's bedrooms of skye and half lanark which are Heritage Paint's own colours.

Plastic fantastic

We met our friends this visit to show off the house thus far...but we couldn't see the floor or windows because it was all masked off by the painter who has been spraying onto the ceiling.

The ceilings looked great with their two super smooth coats of Quarter Black White (go figure!?)

A real colour board

This is the state of our current lounge room. We have: potential paint colours on plasterboard offcuts, potential carpets, potential bathroom tiles and a glimpse of the current state of affairs for quilt #2.

Exciting times indeed!

Choices, choices

I just ordered a stack of testpots from resene paints. I am currently looking at the 'tea' spectrum (swatches below are quarter, half, tea, double) for internals as well as some colours for the kids rooms. I am letting them have input into their room colours (kind of).

I do really like Resene's colours but I love that I can order them online for home delivery! From next week, visits to the to the block should start to yield sizeable plaster offcuts so there will be a fair bit of painting then trips loaded up with painted plaster samples/carpet & tiles to try it all out in situ. All good fun!

Painting progress

Home from holidays we set off on a weekend trip to check out progress with some trepidation. The chosen colour had begun to be applied in our absence....it looks great! What a relief.

Note to self - don't be afraid of colour

I am rethinking Flooded Gum, although that may be a holiday thought along the same lines of 'I will certainly wear that cheery holiday hibiscus dress all the time at home, maybe I should buy two' and then said-dress languishes sadly in the back of the wardrobe when I discover Glen Iris doesn't quite feel like a beach resort after all.

Hmmm...perhaps I'll leave these colourful exteriors, and the hibiscus dress, in Penang where they so beautifully belong.