Monthly Archives: March 2014

How to incorporate rugs into your home

Rugs add a sense of warmth and comfort to a home when they're made of lush fabrics, while thinner weaves of bright colours help liven up a space.

To incorporate rugs into your home, you need to give proper consideration to your interior walls' paint colours as well as your curtains. 

When it comes to interior design, it's important to consider how different elements of the room can work in harmony, and picking the right rugs for your living spaces is no exception. 

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How can paint make your aged care facility more dementia-friendly?

According to Alzheimer's Australia, around 50,000 people in New Zealand are living with dementia. This is a degenerative condition that can affect a person's "memory, thinking, behaviour, personality and emotion", and people of all ages. However, it is most common in people aged 65 years and over.

If you run an aged care facility, chances are a number of your residents will suffer from dementia. There are a range of ways you can improve their quality of life – and choosing the right paint for your business is one of them.

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Go with the flow: Stripes on your walls

While walls painted in simple, block colours pair well with single-shade carpets or polished wood floors, there is a more daring option available for your home. 

Painting stripes on your walls can really bring a room alive, adding personality and a unique colour scheme.

However, this approach doesn't necessarily scream "over the top" – in fact, stripes can add an elegant sophistication to your living room, kitchen or even a child's room. 

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Lovely lime: Bold kitchen ideas

A bold kitchen is positively bursting with personality. From lime green to electric lemon yellow, there's a range of possible colours you can incorporate into this area. 

From vivid paint choices to brightly coloured appliances, there are many ways you can make your kitchen bold and inviting.

If you're after some home decorating inspiration, a bold kitchen might just be the way to go!

Balance is key

A kitchen that embraces pops of bright colour – such as Resene Wham – is the opposite of dull. 

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Preventing graffiti in your community

Every property owner and manager knows how frustrating it is to complete a beautiful new paint job, only for the finished product to be tarnished by unsightly graffiti.

Tagging is prevalent in many neighbourhoods, but luckily communities are beginning to work together to combat the vandalism. You can form or join your own neighbourhood support group to discuss taking action against tagging, and perhaps hold a community paint-out to target graffiti-affected areas all at once.

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Design a productive office

If you're in charge of an interior design overhaul of an office space, it's a good idea to consider what colours, furniture and layouts will be best for this space. It's a different beast to designing homes, so follow these tips to help make the most of the area.

Colour

It's widely acknowledged that different colours can have different impacts on people's moods and behaviours. Bear this in mind when selecting paint for a workspace.

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How to decorate your dining room

The dining room can be one of the most difficult spaces in the house to get right from an interior design perspective.

If you have a penchant for throwing dinner parties, chances are you'll be spending a lot of time in this room – and you'll want it to be perfect.

Here are a few decorating ideas to help you create an amazing dining room.

In 2014, it's all the rage to hang large, attention-grabbing lighting fixtures over the dining room table.

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Paint for your bathroom

Just because your bathroom is (probably) one of the less spacious areas in your house does not mean it should get any less consideration when it comes to interior design.

On the contrary, its small size can render decorative choices that would work stunningly in a bigger room somewhat overwhelming.

For instance, coating your bathroom's walls with brightly coloured gloss paint or a shadowy hue may not be the best option.

While vibrant shades can really inject some life into large spaces, and darker colours may add some much-need drama to large rooms with lots of natural light, both could be quite overpowering in close quarters.

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Have you considered textured paint?

In 2014, it seems that 3D is all the rage.

It's not a fad that's limited to the silver screen, either – it's taken the world of interior design by storm, too.

You may have heard others ranting and raving about the amazing invention that is textured paint.

This can bring a home's walls and interior design to a whole new level, making a room not only beautiful to gaze upon, but also glorious to touch.

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Get a little help with your colour choices

Homeowners and DIYers who may not have a natural eye for selecting the right colour are in luck. The Resene ColourHelper has been developed especially for you, turning complex paint jobs into quick and easy projects.

Whether you're repainting an area and aren't sure of the existing colour, or want to match a paint to a fabric swatch, the ColourHelper can quickly and efficiently match the hue to a corresponding Resene paint. The device can be placed on the target colour, pressed to 'read' the tone three times and then will let you know the three Resene colours that most closely match up with the one measured. If you're looking for complementary colours, it will also bring these up, as well as pointing out differences between two different shades.

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