We had our internal color and electrical appointment with Metricon together on the same day. I will write about our internal color selection experience in this post and I will write about the electrical selection separately.
After leaving the kids with my parents in the morning, we set ourselves to the Metricon head office to sign our lives away yet again... just kidding.
When we got there, we actually had the electrical selection first but that was pretty straight forward and I can still remember everything fresh. It was the internal color selection that was a bit tricky and before I forgot anything else, let's start from the back of Studio M as that's where our consultant start of first. I think that part is also the continuation of where we left off with the external color selection anyway.
I must admit this was quite a fun experience. Well maybe it's because this is our first experience for us both. We didn't go crazy or overboard in the internal color selection, although we did add a little extra here and there but I'm quite proud that we were able to contain ourselves.
Skirting board profile - double pencil round.
Walls/Skirting/Architraves - Dulux - Natural white
Ceiling/Cornices - Dulux - Vivid white
Powder room/Laundry/Kitchen/Bathroom/Ensuite - Benchtops - Quartz CaesarStone - Osprey - thickness 20mm
Powder room/Laundry/Kitchen/Bathroom/Ensuite - all Cupboards - WilsonArt - Concept Oak
Kitchen/Laundry - Kicker - Satin Stainless
Powder room/Bathroom/Ensuite - Kicker - Tiles
We chose to have tiled kicker as oppose to leaving it standard with the laminate cover. The wife and I thought that as we will only be paying $70 extra per room anyway so might as well upgrade it.
We added another set cupboard in the laundry room. The price for the extra cupboard doesn't include the caesarstone that needs to be installed along with the cupboard. The caesarstone in the laundry was part of the promotion that we purchased when signing the contract. It may look weird if we leave a little part of the benchtop in laminate.
We also added a door to the overhead cabinet above the refrigerator section.
I guess everyone else is right when they say, it's the little things that adds up to the total amount. Although the total amount is not as big as the electrical upgrades but if we add it all up we are about $10K poorer.
I admit that this is quite a simple selection on our part, simply because if we can do some of the upgrades ourselves then we'll leave it until then.
This is our internal color selection, next up is the furniture selection.
4 comments:
Nice selection, it does add up but will be worth it in the end
How exciting! We will be neighbours...we sort of! We are also building with metricon..down the road from you guys in kellyville ridge..and we also have 2 neighbours next to us who have also built with metricon!
Looking forward to seeing your build :)
We are currently at plastering stage!
I've just stumbled across your blog whilst looking for a concept oak kitchen door to put our fridge. The rest of our kitchen is concept oak but was built 5 years ago. Could you tell me where you got your doors from? I'm having trouble sourcing this colour.
Hi Karen, all of the doors are part of Metricon's package as well but I think they used Wilson Art as the product.
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