lock it in Eddie, we've chosen our floors .

after much deliberation, and i mean, much much much much deliberation, we've chosen the floors for our house.

• We had always set our minds on having 100% merbau or sydney blue gum or spotted gum timber floors. 

• After intense research we thought we could go with bamboo as it was a cost effective option. 

• Then after that we thought about engineered timber laminate floors - which is a hard wood with a small piece of the real wood on top. 

• That option too was a little too pricey. Then, we investigated the laminate floors - a picture of the real wood design placed on a plank of hard wood - this was much cheaper and it looked soo goood and i was much cheaper too. 

• This put a spanner in the works as the real wood and laminate are on such opposite ends in terms of material. And boy, laminate is gotten so good in the span of 6 months since we first started looking into them. I mean the scanned image of the wood is sooooo realistic, it could, i dare say, pass as the real thing.

So off we went getting quotes from our big carpet companies. After many many many many trips, we decided to go with Harvey Normal's special deal - with Wood Trends in the Merbau finish.

The one we chose is the dark colour in the middle, in the picture below.

We also decided with carpets in the bedrooms, theater and study.  This decision was huge and gave us a huge headache as it was a whole new material we had to research. But low-and-behold, the winners was: Smartstrand IQ150 Twist Carpet Flooring by Mohawk.

This stuff is environmentally green - as it made out of synthetic fibres containing (37%) a polymer derived from corn sugars. It's made in the States and we were really impressed with this advertisement for it:

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And here are the colours we've gone with. A natural colour in the bedrooms...

And the chocolate colour for the theater and study.