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New products and ideas for the home.

Customise your walls
Wall art group BMD may be best known for its rebellious, colourful outdoor work but there’s another expression to their particular brand of creativity – bespoke wall art for inside homes and offices, using Resene paints. BMD uses walls as a vehicle to push both fun and decorative work, as well as more provocative and meaningful conceptual work, with the over arching goal of adding value to spaces and engaging in public discourse. See www.bmdisyourfriend.com.

Coasting with colour
The mother-daughter duo who comprise Inscribe Design have been busy with their laser cutter creating unique pieces for homes using timber veneers, and Resene paints. Their range includes clocks, coasters, lights, bunting, wall flags and more. They use a variety of Resene colours to decorate some of their pieces while others are finished in Resene Aquaclear. See the range at www.inscribedesign.co.nz.

Most trusted again
Resene was proud to be named Most Trusted Paint for the fourth year running in the Readers Digest Most Trusted Brands survey results. And for the first time Resene made the top 10 most trusted brands! Thanks for your ongoing feedback that helps Resene to continually improve. And remember Resene always welcomes your feedback – simply email the Resene team at update@resene.co.nz or fill out the feedback form on the Resene website.

A pendant for your thoughts
Searching for the perfect mood lighting? Switch your focus to the latest lighting trends with Freedom’s pendant collection. Featuring frosted glass, copper frames, matte finishes and mix and match suspension pendants and globes, there’s an option to brighten every decorator’s abode. For more interior inspiration, head to www.stylebyfreedom.co.nz.

Retro vibe
Artist Andy McCready works in a pop surrealist style creating portraits with a retro vibe, often onto vintage wallpaper, and always using Resene paints. View more of her work at www.andy-mccready.com.

Bright spot
There’s nothing quite like a shot of fluoro to really make something stand out and attract attention. While Resene has always had some very bright colours they’ve never really ventured into the fluoro category… until now. Now you can recreate the high-vis highlighter pen look on walls and art with Resene FX Fluoro paint. Available in five colours – blue, green, yellow, orange and pink – it’s ideal for use for after-dark events and in combination with blacklight for a striking fluoro effect. The new fluoros are available from Resene ColorShops and selected resellers.

Dine in style
Scandinavian-designed with a Cape Cod feel, the new Vintage Outdoor Round Dining Table from Artwood is available in two sizes. This look suits any style of home and garden, from coastal to city, casual or country. For stockists contact Johnston Imports on 0800 ARTWOOD or visit www.artwoodfurniture.co.nz.

A league of its own
Athena’s new Soul shower offers a modern take on the traditional pivoting door shower enclosure, delivering a contemporary style that sets it apart. Displaying the latest in pivoting door design with a semi-frameless feel, Soul features chrome pivot covers and a double-sided chrome handle giving a strong architectural feel. It’s a feature not commonly seen on showers in this category. One of the most exciting aspects of the new shower is the ultra-modern square look shower tray. Visit your local Chesters branch or visit www.athena.co.nz.

Designers showcased
It’s amazing what some people do with Resene paint. From paint effects artists, to furniture makers, mural creators and lighting designers, we’ve discovered quite a few during the years. Now to showcase their talents, we have added a new section to our popular website. As well as profiling creative people, the new section also gives a voice to guest bloggers. So hop online to www.habitatbyresene.com/blog-people and see what people are creating and what others are saying.

Stay in bed all day
A new range of colourful bedlinen from Kip & Co is now available from Collected, either in store or online. Mix and match plains and tie-dyed styles for an eclectic style worthy of any bedroom. Just beware, you may want to stay there all day. See www.collected.co.nz.

Charting the changes
Resene has been busy tweaking some of the Resene colour charts… The Karen Walker colour collection has had an update, replacing four existing colours with four new colours – quarter Resene Heathered Grey and Resene Robin Egg Blue, Resene Shadowy Blue and Resene Weathered Orange. Just for kids: To make choosing a complete children’s room colour scheme easier, there’s a new colour joining the Resene KidzColour chart. Resene Cotton Wool is perfect for trims, joinery and ceilings. You can order a new copy of these charts free online, www.resene.com/ordercharts, or pick up a copy at your local Resene ColorShop or reseller.

Button it
The devil is in the detail and the detail in this heavenly Tondela sofa from Danske Mobler includes the quirky yellow buttons with matching scatter cushions. The wood accent at the base and legs adds warmth to this very modern and stylish design, which also comes with the other scatter cushions shown. See www.danskemobler.co.nz.

Flutter into summer
Get into the mood for spring and summer with the new Paradise wallpaper range from Resene ColorShops (NZ), coming soon. Alive with colour and whimsical patterns, let this range flutter onto your walls this season. This design is called Keliena, code 98420. View the extensive wallpaper library at your Resene ColorShop.

Trestle time
Say hello to summer with this sparkling white NZ-made trestle table, finished in Resene Lustacryl paint. Crafted in pine by long-standing Auckland family business Black Sand, it’s just one of the many painted options they make, including toy boxes, kids’ furniture and coat racks. They’re part of the offerings of great locally made products available through The Market. The Market curates and sells everything from art to accessories and furniture. See www.themarketnz.co.nz.

A lamp with that?
Mitre10 has relaunched its core homeware brand, Nouveau, with a refreshed look and expanded range. Nouveau goes beyond the foundational nuts and bolts of renovation, allowing DIY lovers to add smart style to their projects. The Nouveau range includes stylish household items and tools, as well as industrialstyle pendant lights, bathroom products, kitchens, outdoor furniture, storage and furnishings. For inspiration, visit the Mitre 10 YouTube page.

Style revised
The clever people at Revised Edition are big fans of retro and vintage furniture styles and love creating eye-catching and unique pieces for your home… giving them a modern twist with bold colours and intricate patterns. They design and hand paint all of the furniture; no two pieces are the same. These Geometric Patterned Drawers are painted in Resene Sakura (pale pink), Resene Glorious (mid pink), Resene Midnight Express (ink blue) and Resene Casper (blue/grey). For more see www.revisededition.co.nz.

Resene on your windows
There’s no need to stop at your walls if you love Resene colour. Now you can have window blinds as well, in 12 of Resene’s top-selling colours. In a collaboration between Four Families and Resene, the new collection of roller and vertical blinds uses a subtly textured fabric available in an extra-wide 300cm width to suit large windows. Called Resene Origin, the fabric has the same colour on the front and the back. In addition, the Resene ColourWise Guide is available on selected Four Families fabrics to help you choose the perfect combination of blinds and Resene paint colours. Resene Origin blinds are available from selected curtain specialists. Visit www.fourfamilies.co.nz to find your nearest stockist.

Showersaving paint
Weather and paint have a love-hate relationship. There’s Resene Hot Weather Additive for hot conditions and Resene Wintergrade products to improve paint performance in very cold conditions, but a solution for wet conditions has been more elusive, until now. Added to exterior waterborne coatings, new Resene Umbrella Additive gives rapid protection from light showers even before the coating has dried. Water is able to evaporate from the coating so that it dries, but light showers simply roll off. Available from Resene ColorShops and selected resellers.
Find out more about new Resene Umbrella Additive.

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