the right stuff

We went through our selections! ... A few weeks ago... still struggling to keep up :)

One of the things we really like about our builder is that while our choices our limited, our choices are all high quality, so while we certainly not interior designers, everything is good looking to begin with.

I returned back a couple weeks early to snap pictures/learn of all the options we had, so we had plenty of time to Pinterest the hell out of things and discuss what we wanted. We thought we had a great plan coming in, but I was surprised at how much much we changed in the office, it makes such a difference laying everything out together!

Starting with the outside, the outside of our House will be Sherwin Williams's "Eider White" with black shutters. We opted to go white with the door rather than black in case we want to paint it a fun color down the road.

We hope it looks like something like this (thank you Pinterest and Google image search):

For our interior paint colors, we were given the choice of 2, in whatever rooms we wanted, in varying shades of grey and tan. Here were the options, along with floor and some cabinetry options (the blank one is Benjamin Moore's Moonshine).

We ended up going for Light French Gray and Sea Salt paint, Kona stained white oak floors, and a  neutral carpet.  I loved the "Sea Salt" for some interior rooms, and we were torn on the middle row for common rooms, but liked the way the French gray looked the best. Carpet was pretty much between brown tan, middle brown-tan, and variety brown-tan, so we went with what we thought would be neutral and hide dog hair the best - strategy!

All the bathrooms have the dark cabinetry and white top. The common ones have this neutral tile, and our master bathroom is a grey tile. The tile on the sides are the linings for the showers. The brown-ish tile was one that we had initially vetoed, but it ended up looking great with everything else we wanted (and we thought for a common bath it would hide dirt), so it ended up being the winner!

The color scheme of our kitchen: white cabinets, uba tuba granite (I may have been sold on name alone), white subway backsplash, and the paint and floors of the first floor.

Most hopeful it looks along these lines:

All the light fixtures and other selections were pretty standard and not super exciting, but we love them none the less! Now just patiently (ha!) waiting for the house to be built...