We've nutted down the flooring to one supplier and now are just trying to decide on the type of wood for the flooring. The others colours below are as follows:
Walls: Dulux 'Buff It' (background same as paint chip top RHS)
Ceiling and Cornice: Dulux 'Antique White USA' 1/2 strength
Doors, Arcs and Skirts: Dulux 'Antique White USA' (under 'Buff It' paint chip)
Bathrooms and Kitchen Lower Cabinets: Laminex 'Mocha'
Kitchen Upper Cabinets: Laminex 'Angora'
Kitchen Bench: Caesar Stone 'Ice Snow'
Bathroom benches: Laminex 'Pure Mineralstone' in Diamond Gloss finish
Tiles: As pictured, 400x400 for floors and on walls in showers and around bath
Feature Tiles: white rectangular with pebble feature - between vanity and mirrors
There will be some feature walls as well, a dusty rose colour in pink's room and a burnt orange in blue's. And various others throughout the house, to be decided when I finally make a decision!
So now the next decision - floors. The above flooring is called Kempas, and the below is an example of Spotted Gum (showing the variations). Above: much much cheaper (about 30% cheaper) but my gut says 'too red!'. Bikeman quite likes it though. I'm a little more partial to the Spotted Gum but is it worth the extra $$? Hmmmmm.... help me!
So now the next decision - floors. The above flooring is called Kempas, and the below is an example of Spotted Gum (showing the variations). Above: much much cheaper (about 30% cheaper) but my gut says 'too red!'. Bikeman quite likes it though. I'm a little more partial to the Spotted Gum but is it worth the extra $$? Hmmmmm.... help me!
I love dark chocolate floorboards, so I'm no help. Out of those two choices I prefer the Spotted Gum. Floorboards are a big purchase, make sure you get something you can both be happy about. I agree with you that the top one is too red, but that's just from this photo.
ReplyDeletewhen I'm buying things, I often have similar dilemmas to this. TBH, I see the colours as almost the same, not significantly different. So if it were me, I'd save the $$$
ReplyDeleteWe had a similar dilemma with our carpet, I bought samples of both and everyone pined over both, and although I saw the difference, they pretty much couldn't tell the diff, they didn't see why I was jumping at the chance to save $30per metre. so it was an easy choice for me in the end...
put the money you save to something you didn't think you could afford.
IMO!
wow thats a hard one, I like the top one, but with only a small sample it's hard to tell. Once it covers a wide space, you may be right, it could be too much red, although a nice fluffy white rug would take that away. The bottom one is kind of oldish cottage style , if the house will have that theme than yeah go for it. However my personal opion would be the top one.
ReplyDeleteThanks all for your comments - in the end $ won out and we went for the Kempas, the first one which is more red - hopefully in the flesh it won't look to red (fingers crossed). You're right, it will be one of those things I probably won't be thinking about in 6 months time. Or I'll hate it forever! Ce la vie, life is too short....
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