Resene Spindle With your colours in hand, and ideas from the following pages, you can now go shopping: Once you have refined your Resene paint colour choices, take the Resene paint charts with you when you’re shopping for furnishings, accessories and furniture. Or, paint your colours onto a Resene stirring stick, or individual ice-block sticks for handy reference. Buy some testpots and paint up A2 pieces of card to test out at home, or order A4 swatches from Resene. Once you have chosen some of your interior elements, compile a swatch board with bits of tile, flooring, fabric, carpet, paint colour etc so you can see the components come together as a collection. Try to represent the individual elements in the same proportion as they will appear in the room, ie the curtain fabric swatch will be larger than the one you have chosen for the cushions, and a paint colour or wallpaper for a feature wall will be smaller than the main wall colour. Visit the www.habitatbyresene.com website and register for a Lookbook. Search the site and collect the photographs and colours you like. Also, find photographs you don’t like – sometimes identifying what you don’t like is easier and helps you pinpoint what style you’re definitely not. Take advantage of the services available from Resene: paint charts and cards, colour consultancies, testpots, drawdowns, wallpaper samples, the in-store colour library of thousands of large A4 swatches, Resene Colour View project slides, as well as copies of habitat magazine and the habitat plus booklets. Without these ‘comfort’ colours you may always feel a little out of touch, detached or dissatisfied as your personality works hard to try to find things in the environment that resonate with your preferences. Even introducing a few elements of your style personality into a room can make it feel instantly welcoming. Living with others Of course, few of us are purely one style personality and many of us have to consider the other personalities in our household. If you agree readily on the same colours and decorating looks as your spouse or kids, you will generally share a common style personality. But what if you can’t agree on anything? Don’t despair! Accommodating the personalities of different family members is easy: •  Allocate each family member a favourite room and let them select furnishings and colours for that space that suit their colour and style personality. That way in at least one part of the house they will feel truly at home. Bedrooms are ideal for this.  •  To incorporate the tastes of other family members accessorise the room with one item from each family member’s dominant style personality. •  Style personalities do overlap. Look for the common ground and use that as the basis for your colour scheme. For example, there are common elements between those who like a Beach Casual look and those who love Country Rustic interiors. Likewise, there can be overlap between Eco Warrior homeowners, and those who love a clean Architectural aesthetic. Resene Rice Cake Colour your home with interior colour schemes plus 4 | | 5