Besides Tractile and Monier Sola tile does / have anyone used other solar products that are NOT PANELS ?, i have looked all over the net and all the companies i have found are in USA and don't want to export to australia. Question is why did bluescope steel get 5 million to develop a product than shelf it. I would think this is a huge business waiting to happen. http://reneweconomy.com.au/2014/bluescope-unveils-world-first-solar-roof-with-heat-and-power-32417

Thank you @Creative Style Interior Design and @bigreader @Creativelychallenged - Thank you for your nice words. We are indeed very happy with the result. We also went through all these stages you describe, so don't feel depressed... there might be light at the end of the tunnel. Our research stage was so long and quite discouraging at times. We've always wanted to live in a queenslander, but our house is not one. This didn't stop us on going ahead adding some character to our bathrooms design (and kitchen). We started with the idea of making these bathrooms with a colonial touch but we found that it was not easy to find the elements we wanted (tiles, furniture, tapware) at a cost that would fit our budget. We learned that the type of tiles we liked (encaustic) were VERY expensive ($200+), traditional looking furniture was also very expensive... So we shifted to a more modern design...(not very happily though), and after a while of collecting ideas for modern tiles, furniture etc.. we felt quite depressed because we were compromising... updating our bathrooms with something fresher, but far, far away from what we really liked. In our view modern furniture looked very plain, streamlined and... boring, but we were doing 2 bathrooms (on a budget) so we were not prepared to spend a fortune, and we settled with modern. We ordered marble type tiles for the floor 900x600, and wood like tiles for the walls, and booked the builder to start demolition. Luckily for us National tiles called us saying that there was an error and the tiles they promised were not going to be available for 3 more months!!! Depressed again.... It took us so long to find something we liked (kinda) and now we were back to square one. Then my lovely wife said... Why don't we give it another go and try to make a more traditional design as we originally wanted.... So to make it short... we went back online with 'refreshed' energy and pressure (demolition already started) and found many things I coudn't find before: Floor tiles @ $25/m2 Subway tiles for walls @$16 the box on sale... Ensuite furniture and basin from Ikea Main bathroom furniture was an antique dresser we found in an op shop for $150 repainted and repurposed.... etc... In the end we spent approx $12,5K for both bathrooms in total :-) So, to summarise... don't dispair... just look in this website, on pinterest, magazines, google, etc... Play around with ideas and copy!... (you'll see that our ensuite is quite similar to the first photo in this discussion)... Good luck! :-)

Kitchen and office is 7 x 3 metres the connecting cabin is 7x4 and the bedroom is 7x 3.5 you should be able to see the inbuilt washer and the space where the bin is would suite a small dishwasher.....we are still undecided if we need one. the kitchen units can’t be moved, so I am stuck with their location. to the right of the kitchen entr is the office and we are putting .5 x 2.00 floor to ceiling storage as well as desk dryer and printer.. i was concerned that the dark wall is making the room look narrow, we have a limed washed look flooring not sure about the mirrors/ stainless steel because there is nothing but interiors to reflect! Though we cert need natura light in the area thank you for your help, I have lost my confidence

https://www.fabricmill.com/coral-reef-oceanside.html. On their site there is no mention of shipping os, they use UPS. UPS ships to Australia. I suggest emailing or ringing. I have got fabric from Fabric.com. Great service, 7 days to Qld pre-Covic. Be aware that it is usually multiples of US price for us.