I’m a huge fan of the block… I have loved it since it started, and this year I am in LOVE with Daz and Dee.  I am a huge fan of the “Hamptons” styling, but I love modern too.  Daz and Dee are putting the two together perfectly.  When I saw their main bathroom, ‘it was love at first sight!!!’  (Yes, I’m a Kylie fan too. lol)

Anyway, I loved it so much we are going to ‘copy’ it.  Well the floors anyway.  I have a built in bath, insert sob here… really wanted the free standing… but the money tree stopped growing.  Anyway, the walls are all big white rectangle tiles and then the amazing feature tile on the floor.

Picture from The Block – Channel 9

We were going to go with a hexagon feature on the walls, but when I saw Daz and Dee’s design I knew that was more “me”.

This picture was taken from the Bunnings catalogue 

These were the colours we had chosen, with our floor tile on the left.

So the amazing floor tile is called ‘Milan’ from the Artisan range by Southern Cross Tiles.  We are going with ‘Charcoal’ for the colour, but there are 9 other colours to choose from. (Mist, Ash, Black, Black Dark, Clay, Chocolate, Forest, Sky and Denim)  They are non-slip with a P4 rating (I don’t know what that actually means. lol) and don’t require sealing, again ????, but it certainly sounds good!!!  The size is 200x200x7mm.  Another great selling point, they are Australian made and owned!!!

Our cabinets are white, and the bench top is also white.  I think I will have to look out for a nice pendant like this one in the photo.  I just want to go shopping and start buying stuff, but I will hold off until the house actually starts… and well I have no idea when that will actually be!

On a positive note – we submitted the plans to council today for the planning permit!  This has taken a long time to prepare, and I’m crossing everything that it is perfect and we will get approved without too much hassle.  (one must have hope)  We require planning permits as we are in an inundation zone and also had a design and development overlay as our property is close to a river.

The tile below is a feature tile we are having in the ensuite shower to bedroom 4.  We couldn’t decide whether to go the circles or the lines… we ended up going with the circles.

This tile is by Everstone and is called Durastone Porcelain – 3D Ispring.  I really love this tile.  Initially it was going in our bathroom, but then we went with the hexagon, and now the Milan, lol.  I still loved it, so we put in the spare ensuite (which will eventually be daughter’s room – we she is old enough to clean it herself)

Above is the feature tile in the shower of the main bathroom (kids bathroom).  One wall will have this, but in the turquoise and charcoal colour shown below. (bottom right) The floor tile is the dark timber look (a CAT 2 tile), and the large white rectangle (also a CAT 2 option)

I’m really excited to have something “different” and can’t wait to see them in my home… whenever that might be.

Has anyone used these tiles or gone with your own ‘something different’?  I would love to see your pictures.

And to those who have built the Airlie or going to build – did you have the built in bath, or the free standing???