Today is the final day in our Design Week series! We've taken you behind the scenes on the exterior, from inspiration, material choices, and the many, MANY decisions on colour. Now it's finally time to see how it's all coming together.  So without further ado...here it is!!

The amount of colour choices that go into the exterior of a house is ASTONISHING! I always anticipated that the interior design decisions would be hard but it never crossed my mind that choosing colours for the exterior materials would make me want to tear my hair out. Grab a cup of coffee cause this might take a while...

After narrowing in on the look we were going for, we set out to finding the right materials to accomplish it.  As it turns out - we simply live on the wrong coast.  Who knew??  Apparently the exact type of house we love is so popular on the other side of the continent that it's coined it's own style.  A quick google search of 'West Coast Modern" and you'll know what I'm talking about.  We found a ton of information on expressed joint panel systems, & cedar cladding materials in the Pacific North West, but were hard pressed to find building practices & materials for that style of home locally.

Today kicks off our second Design Week and this time it's all about the exterior of the Dreamhouse.  When we left off last time, we revealed the conceptual elevation drawings & first colour renderings of the exterior.  Of course drawings are easy.  The hard part is bringing the drawings to life to achieve the look we want within budget.

Happy Thursday folks - and Happy Thanksgiving to all our Ameri-friends! First of all, I feel like I should apologize for the radio silence over the last couple of weeks. Between broken laptops, business trips, a sick pre-schooler & some much needed family time, there hasn't been a whole lot of room left in my schedule for the blog. I know...BAD blogger!! Not to worry though cause I promise to make up for it.

Remember how excited we were when our windows finally arrived?? Well now we're even more excited (if that's even possible) because the windows are being installed and they're even sexier than we imagined they would be! That's right I said sexy...and I'm talking about windows. Have a look at the pics below and try to argue with me...