More decisions made

After hunting around for "the carpet" we finally settled on the Norman Ellison "anti-allergen" wool range from the Carpet Man. Thanks Fadzilah for pointing us in that direction. We got a few other quotes from other carpet stores, but in the end, we decided to go with them because they had the carpet which we thought was a perfect balance between what I needed and what Hubby wanted. The kids and I suffer from horrible hay fever and this carpet is guaranteed to be anti-allergen. It is also a textured loop which I love. For hubby, it had to be wool as natural is very important to him. And with wool, it will give us that great appearance even after many many years. Besides we were happy with the sales rep who was patient, offered us excellent advice and seemed to know what he was talking about.

So here's the photo of our chosen carpet:

The colour is called Fawn and while hubby and I liked one of the darker shades, we thought that we've got enough dark things happening: walls, floorboards, dark wooden furniture... so we need light carpet to balance things out a bit. At least that's another decision done! Hurray!!!!

Now, let me share some other photos I took while I was at the house the other day.

 I love these resort style fans- very retro, yet funky and modern at the same time. The kids aren't fuss about them so luckily we only got two of them- one in the family room and one outside under the alfresco area.

These satin light switches are so pretty. We got most of the downstairs' switches in this satin range. Upstairs is the simple, white utilitarian ones!

At the top of the stairs is the glass partition. It looks yucky at the moment but I am sure that once the cleaners are done with it, it shall be sparkingly beautiful! Oh the balustrade needs to be stained yet...and of course it's a darkish one!

Our youngest boy will have the best view in the house. This is what he gets to wake up to every morning. Bliss!



An updated photo of the house from a frontal view. The garagedoor is on, Colorbond evening haze, and the render is basically done, but the two pillars there with the light fittings still needs to be painted- Taubmans Canyon Black (which is supposed to be a Charcoal Grey). And they got a bobcat in yesterday to clean up the outside. So it looks pretty neat, without all that construction mess everywhere. I can't wait until they clean the inside!