Well went on the look out for tiles, carpets and also retaining wall ideas.

Just to refresh, last weekend we went to Beaumont tiles and gave them our house plans, chose tiles that we want all through the main living areas. Anyway, they was supposed to email us a quote ..... 1 wk later we are still waiting.

So today we visited the World of Tiles in Labrador and very helpful they were too. Said they had an account with Coral but when we spoke to Coral later in the day they said that the do not have a contract with them. Confusing. Also visited the carpet place next door and they were great too. They allowed us to take the carpet samples next door and put them with the tiles we have chosen. I will put pics up soon.

Next a visit to a place that does retaining bricks. Unfortunately we didn't spot anything that rocked our boat this time so back to the drawing board with that one.

Then we visited Coral. They have moved our house back on the plans and were going to charge us $1000 to go to council to do a boundary relaxation. When we spoke to Coral they agreed that this might not be necessary so it was well worth the visit. He said that we should receive our contracts 19th August so not long to wait now.

Took tile samples home and played about abit with the Laminex samples, Dulux colours and we are starting to get somewhere. So why can't we decide on a render finish and a colour for the roof? We need to make some decisions before the contracts arrive.