b'did you k n ow that theres more to this house paint than meets the eye? Because dark colours soak up heat, and because summers on the Crown Terrace are scorchers, it can get very hot inside. To mitigate that, Resene CoolColour paint was used, a formulation that allows dark shades to reect more of the suns heat. Surfaces remain cooler than they otherwise would, helping to keep the home cooler. It also helps extend the life expectancy of the paint and whatever lies beneath it. ReseneBreathlessAbove and right: Both the colours of the house and the garden purposefully blend with the dramatic surroundings using craggy tones suchas Resene Gravel and Resene Wanaka.Left: Sweeping curved walls in Resene Wanaka mimic the shape and colours of the landscape beyond. Below: Timber boardwalks and concrete paths intersect. Singaporean clientsto inject a small but meaningful shot of colour. To the Chinese, red symbolises good luck, says Simon. Theres brilliance in the garden as well. The house nestles in a small natural basin towards the rear of the west-facingproperty.TheownersaskedBrooketo enclose it with landscaped plantings which gradually thin out towards the boundaries, merging with existing rye grass, wild broom, scrub, gorse, matagouri and shelterbelttrees.Theyalsoaskedhimforsome seasonal variation. So he wrapped the house with sculptural forms of lawn, grasses, retaining walls and the creek, which terminatesinacurvedpondanimatedbylow waterfalls. Firmly of the view that a large group of a single type of plant impresses far more than a large group of assorted varieties, he assigned one to each part of the gardencarex,axes,redtussocksandgolden speargrass to replace the 380 snow tussocks consumed by the plague of rabbits that almost brought Brooke to his knees before the plants grew too old and tough to interest them. Conversely, the indigenous orawhich makes up about 60 percent of his plant listincludes plantschosenpreciselybecausetheyaremouth-watering to native birds. ReseneGravel74'