hahaha tribbletrouble...U kill me :)) No charge - every week they have a free consultant at my local dulux paint shop :) Question - Do you think Surfmist matches with Colorbond Dune ?

After great thought with the advice given & other researched sites, we have decided to not render our bricks. :) We have begun re painting our pergola from dulux lexicon to taubmans coffee cake - very similar to our window trims. It's a neutral stone/beige colour. We hope to paint our garage doors & gutters monument & probably the facia trims in coffee cake. Fingers crossed for it to look ok. Thanks again.

I'm personally not a fan of tile - very hard on the feet, I find - so I'd probably restrict tile to the wet areas and go for hardwood everywhere else. Our last home had wood in every room except the bathroom, and after 10 years it still looked fine. Even the kitchen looked good. That said, we didn't have kids running around in the house. Did (and still do) have a dog, though. Our current house has carpeting in the bedrooms, engineered wood in the living areas, and tile in the bathrooms and laundry. All three floor coverings have a similar greigish tone, so to my mind they look fine together, and meet the practicality and comfort criteria as well.

Hi, there are some great ideas here and loving or hating red bricks is a personal choice. I note that you are putting an Ironstone gate on the driveway and also considering Beige Royal. I wouldn't use these two colours together as Ironstone is a purple toned grey and Beige Royal is a yellow and pink toned white. The two don't go together. Instead I'd keep the Ironstone as it looks great with a red brick and red roof and try a grey white render like the one in the picture. If I can help with paint colours for the render I offer an online paint consultation for $99. Full details can be found on my website.