We received a letter inviting us to take part in our preliminary colours selection on 10 April 2013. I was so excited to get to this point. I had heard how great MJH are at the colours studio and how proficient everything is. As this was just a preliminary appointment we did not have to choose any colours, but received a large folder containing all the colours and price guide to look through. We were informed our actual colors appointment would take place on 22 April. So over the next few days, we spent many hours at Bunnings and online stores, working out what things we could do ourselves later on to save money. By the time the 22nd rolled around we were very ready and knew exactly what we wanted.
I told my partner, Felicity, that she had to get the day off work for this! So on 22 May 2013, we attended MJH head office again to select our colours. The interior designer that we had, was superb. She knew exactly what matched with what and it seemed like we were flying through our selections. We decided to leave out floorings, driveway and fly screens in order to save money after hand over. There were a lot of extras to choose from and initially we said yes to everything we liked, with a plan to delete the unnecessary items to reduce the cost. This was a must, as we quickly racked up a cost of 22k, after only having a budget of about 10k. So out came the red pen and we deleted the items we could live with out. We then brought our total down to a more manageable figure! After 4 hours in the colour studio we were very happy with our colours, and also happy that we both shared a very similar taste! It could have gotten pretty crazy if two girls didn't agree on a colour! Thankfully we both have very neutral taste.
