Windows anyone?

It's exciting stuff building a house. A dream come true I would even say and yesterday the ball was definately on the roll when we had the very official sounding 'exterior meeting'.

When you move in to a home, everything is all set up, you look around and think to yourself - 'ah, yes, I could cook in that kitchen, bathroom's nice and big, oh windowsills need a paint, I'll put that on the to do list'... but when you build you get to choose things that I wouldn't have ever considered having a say on. For example - the windows, it was part of the exterior decision making process yesterday to choose which side the windows open on - left or right. What the? I thought windows were windows and that was all there was to it, but it appears not.

I'm glad that the man and I pretty much agree on colours and design (notice I say pretty much), I wasn't really all that concerned about the colour of the bricks for the exterior, or even the colour of the roof, but so help me if he doesn't like the same colour kitchen as me, there's going to be trouble! I think it's only fair that the person who spends the most time in a room gets the most say on how that room will appear, well, to a certain extent, the boy informed me yesterday that he wants a yellow bedroom and red curtains - cute if you're three, probably not so cute when you're 10, and absolutely positively not cutie cutie when you're 15. So I think we might have to come to some sort of a compromise on that one, I'm picking Fire Engines on the curtains might just about do it.

I think I'll be the Henry Ford of houses, not 'you can have any colour as long as it''s black', more 'you can have any colour as long as it's Mummy's.' Yep, sounds fair to me.