What a lovely house, a paint update will look really exciting! Contrary to all the colours you've chosen, I'd go instead with a warm grey (hint of taupe in it). It will always be classic, would look amazing with fresh white window frames and dark charcoal eaves (e.g. Dulux Monument). Cue my favourite colour: Dulux Dieskau. I just think there's quite a large area of uninterrupted rendered wall so I'd worry that if you go too bluish, it could look to be verging on pastel and a gingerbread house type effect. My brother painted Tranquil Retreat on his rendered Victorian and it has come up more blue than he'd thought (actually he was also considering Milton Moon). But of course, test paint a few walls sections with different aspects and check during the day from different angles (and even across the road)!! Actually there's another photo and paint colour I love that reminded me of this, I'll try and track it down.

Hi Brant, I also have an Edwardian house in Melbourne and used black and white diagonal laid tiles on a terrace floor. I bought the tiles at De Lucia Tiles at 460 Heidelberg Rd Fairfield. They also subway and the pencil and capping tiles. I have also bought other tiles there for a kitchen and bathroom and have always had good experiences with them. On tile quantities, it is generally best to check with your tiler, but my recollection is that there is more wastage when laying tiles on the diagonal. Your tile supplier may also be able to help you estimate quantities, or advise how hard it is to quickly source extras if more are needed. Good luck.

Look at bigreaders photo -- I personally think the 'clean' tiles look great -- the colorbond not so great . BUT what you also note is that the part facing the street appears to all be tiled . A good roofer will keep the newer tiles out of sight -- you may even be able to get 'speckled' tiles that make it less obvious , or even get an airbrush artist or even enthusiastic art students to add a bit of charcoal and dark green on them . The white window frames and white gutters , in fact your whole house , looks 'clean' -- the tiles have some character , but even 100% new tiles wont look too out of place IMO , and changing to a shale or similar colouring would emphasis that your place is looked after IMO .

@siriuskey: we love the finish and we are happy for the experience and documented some things we would do differently next time we do a bathroom. You are right, next up is the kitchen. Project managing the bathroom ourselves has helped us save a bit of money that I am parting with by handing over the kitchen design to a good kitchen renovation company. Less decisions to make for us. Renovations are hard work, but nice feeling when we get to the other end of the tunnel :D