From the Resene News – issue 3/2009

Comfort with style - the Quest Napier

Built in 1922 the original building on Dickens Street that is now home to Quest Napier, was one of the few to survive the devastating 1931 earthquake. It started life as a Foresters’ Hall lodge and post war became the RSA Napier Club. In recent years, New Horizons Church called it home until its striking transformation into the Quest Napier, a 4 star serviced apartment with 47 studios and one bedroom self-contained apartments hidden behind its 1920s façade.

Exterior precast concrete is protected in a sympathetic low sheen finish of Environmental Choice approved Resene X-200 waterproofing membrane, combining the benefits of durability with crack bridging properties over the weathered substrate. Plasterwork has been finished in Resene Limelock to cure and seal any free lime followed by topcoating in Environmental Choice approved Resene Lumbersider waterborne satin. A subtle colour palette of Resene Double Stonewall, Resene Half Stonewall and Resene Eighth Stonewall is accented by metal and wood finished in a striking Resene Enamacryl gloss waterborne enamel finish in Resene Nero (blue black).

The interior palette adds a subtle warmth to the atmosphere, with Resene Half Thorndon Cream (green neutral), Resene Eighth Thorndon Cream (sharp white) and Resene Alabaster (blackened white). Vast swathes of interior walls are finished in Environmental Choice approved Resene Zylone Sheen waterborne low sheen, joined by Resene Enamacryl gloss waterborne enamel on trims and joinery and Resene SpaceCote Low Sheen waterborne enamel on wet areas. New paperfaced plasterboard has been treated to a Resene Broadwall 3 in 1 finish. A spray applied high build, Resene Broadwall 3 in 1 is a single step coating that outperforms the traditional system of conventional skim coating, joint compound and primer coat. It can be used as a sealer (when thinned), a surfacer, or a finish coat on ceilings tinted to a range of Resene colours. For Quest Napier, it was an ideal way to achieve a level 5 finish on new plasterboard prior to the application of the desired Resene coloured topcoats.

With the redevelopment project complete, Quest Napier offers a blend of modern day conveniences on the inside with historical authenticity on the outside ensuring widespread appeal to guests who love Napier’s architecture but also their creature comforts.

www.questnapier.co.nz
Architect: Perry Architects
Building Contractor: Arrow Construction
Painting Contractor: KC Contractors
Resene: Kate Howard, Hawkes Bay Trade Sales Representative

 
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