A face for our new home!

We finally and I mean FINALLY have the facade of the house looking just as I wanted minus the roller door glass panel inserts hee hee! We are really happy with how it is all coming together! We have decided on white double hung windows and originally wanted timber but have since changed to aluminum as I think there will be less maintance in future years. There are a new range of aluminum windows that are much more thicker than the normal ones now so I think they will work perfectly! We are going to use either shingles or tiles to the top of the front bay window which will all depend on what we use on the roof...not sure if we should go terracotta tiles in the tortoiseshell color or color bond in grey? Hmm??? I originally wanted to use recycled clinker bricks but have since had a bit of a shock on their prices so we are now leaning towards the old reds which are still very nice. I have yet to sell this idea to my husband as he still wants to go for the old clinkers. The chimney was my designers idea, who grew up with my husband. The first thing I said when I saw the chimney was, "Now Santa has a chimney to come down." lol. When I said I wanted a fireplace to our front room I thought he would just add a flue system but he said it would have looked out of place from the front of the house especially with the look we are trying to achieve so a chimney it is although it will hit the pocket a bit harder than expected. Oh well, we are doing this once and once only so why not?

I hope to share more with you all soon.