Blinded by the light!

Now it's time to consider our window furnishings.  My bedroom windows are fairly large and are at the front of the house.  I decided to use hinged timber shutters for these windows.  I had to consider the view of the house from the street as well.  As our floors are going to be a dark wood , I wanted to use only light colours for the blinds so that the house doesn't end up looking too dark on the inside so I chose Pearl White.

In our family room we have two large windows and I certainly don't want to loose the light coming in from these windows as they light up the family room, dining and kitchen.  I also wanted something that was more tailored and formal looking.  I chose Roman blinds for these two windows so that they can be rolled up to allow the maximum amount of light into this area.  Chose the colour Magnolia, which is an off white. 

Roman blinds

 For the rest of the bedrooms and the media room I chose double block out roller blinds.  It consists of two roller blinds on one bracket, one sheer view blind and one block out blind. This gives you more control of the amount of light in the room and the block out blind can be rolled down for total privacy at night.  

Double roller blinds

Decided on not putting anything over the stacker doors that lead to the alfresco. Don't see the point in having these nice doors covered but Ben disagrees.  So the debate rages.  Will keep you all updated. 

Update on the construction side of things, is that I had an update from the SS today telling me what was scheduled for next week.  Brick cleaning, rendering and eaves are all lined up for next week.