Literally, here are our building plans for the new house. They’re all fairly large files, so instead of overwhelming your internet connection, click the link to download each one.

Ground Floor

First Floor

Side/Front Elevation

Side/Rear Elevation

Cheers!

After our external colour appointment with Metricon’s Studio M last week, we were alerted to a very useful, and relatively unknown website called Envisage. Seemingly part of Studio M, this website allows you to better visualise your external and internal colours and see how well they go together.

Here’s our take at it. While the shape of the house won’t mimic ours, it still does a pretty good job of letting us know how our colour selections will end up looking like.

We were able to choose the brick style, weatherboard texture and colour, roof type (Woodland Grey Colorbond), and even front door and window types (we’re going with wood windows on the front of the house, so we’ve naturally selected wood). You can even select the stain type you’re using on the wood!

You even have the ability to visualise the interior of your house – from a living area to the kitchen. It’s fun to play around with the different colour combinations, and try to understand how colours play off of each other better.

You do need to register to use it, but you DON’T need to be a Metricon home builder (though it does help). Enjoy!

We’ve had our external colour appointment with Metricon’s Studio M. Tell me, how many different shades of white are there? Below is the sheet that Metricon sent us of our selections, if you’re interested. It didn’t scan particularly well – in fact I’d venture to say it came out pretty bad, but the colour names are there, and you’ll get the basic idea of what we’ve gone for. The colours might be completely off, depending on your monitor.

We spent the better part of a day trying to figure out what colours we would be using for our home – and this was only the outside! In an attempt to both abide by the developers guidelines and create a  palette that contains an earthy blend of colours, we finally nailed down the colours we’ll be using for the brick, weatherboard, colorbond roof, gutters, downpipes, eaves and fascia. I think the entire process took about four hours, but I’d venture to say that most of our work was done ahead of time. It was an interesting experience to say the least, but I’m glad it’s over. Not because it was a chore to undertake (though at times it felt like it), but quite the opposite – now that we have the colours selected, we can start to really visualise how the house is going to look once it’s completed!

Below is the sheet that Metricon sent us of our selections, if you’re interested. It didn’t scan particularly well – in fact I’d venture to say it came out pretty bad, but the colour names are there, and you’ll get the basic idea of what we’ve gone for.

View it larger here.