Colour Selection

Choosing colours was made easy as we did it in two goes, the first visit we hadn't expected to make that much progress but as we had the time, we pretty much decided on the render colours, downpipes, roof tiles, aluminium colour, kitchen cupboard colour, wall colour, splashback, which stone, carpet and floor boards. We were given samples of everything except the carpet to take away with us and consider if they were the right ones. Then two weeks later we returned for the confirmation. Here they are:

A few things remained outstanding
1) we'd chosen as the main render colour Dulux caveman which was no longer available on any colour cards. I was concerned it was a little dark so after a few days we were given the address of a house that used caveman. We drove down to Sandhurst and were happy with it, so were able to confirm we'd make the right choice. Here's that house showing the colours. We are also using that off white render colour, grey pebble 1/2 strength. But garage doors will be surfmist which is very close to the grey pebble colour.

2) appliances were bugging me as to choose any appliance other than those that they offered from their list meant additional costs. Because I didn't want the offered 90cm Ariston, instead they offered 2 Sholtes BC99 TPXA underbench 60cm pyrolytic ovens, an Ariston 90cm PH960MSTGH cooktop and a Sirius SLEM906 82X undermount rangehood. Always one to do my homework, I searched on my favourite Product Review site and the ovens rated pretty well. I couldn't find anything on the rangehood but found that E&S Trading sold them so I called them. The guy said that they were equal to Qasair so I was pretty happy with that. The cooktop had a mixed rating from really good to not so good but I was overall comfortable so went ahead with choosing them.
3) re the floor, I'd really liked the look of spotted gum so we drove to their Vincent St display which featured it - looked fabulous. So that was also a done deal.

thanks to Maddy for her help.