From habitat magazine - issue 08, editorial
With interior trends swinging away from minimalist interiors, our homes can be made more welcoming and comfortable.
It’s a hurly burly world we live in. One in which we rush from home to work, to school pick-ups to social events. One in which the world rushes to meet us with its bigger crowds, brighter advertising messages, new films, new products and faster, better technologies.
Thank goodness we have a haven called home. It’s a place where we can retreat for a while, and create a cocoon for ourselves and our families.
With interior trends swinging away from minimalist interiors, our homes can be made more welcoming and comfortable. No more perching on the edge of the hard-edged sofa for fear you’ll wrinkle the upholstery!
As chandeliers become the in thing, as beds are dressed in squishy brocade quilts and appliquéd cushions grace our sofas, there is more opportunity to feather our nests with strong colour and rich detail. Let’s all breathe a sigh of relief that white-on-white is no longer right.
In this issue of Habitat, we bring a little of the feel-good factor to your lives – from the purely practical with advice on which insulation might suit you, to the decorative, like how to create a pretty flower arrangement to dress your house. There’s an inviting family home to visit, entertainer Jackie Clarke’s collections to marvel at and four luscious looks to try in your living room.
Rachel editor
What goes around comes around. It’s funny how often progress goes full circle. Resene was founded many decades ago on making coatings for concrete and now more than 60 years on, we are again involved with concrete, but this time paint is going into it, rather than on it.
Resene has been working with Fletcher Building, Golden Bay Cement, Firth Industries and 3R during the past few years to develop novel ideas for turning waste paint once destined for landfills into a useful ingredient in concrete. The outcome – PaintCrete, a PaintWise solution – will divert thousands and thousands of litres of paint into concrete manufacture, improving the properties of the concrete.
Other waterborne paint collected by the Resene PaintWise service is diverted into covering graffiti with tens of thousands of litres donated free of charge to tackle the tagging throughout the country. Further allocations of paint go to a range of community groups to help them with their arts activities, repaint their premises and much more.
And you can help. By bringing back your unwanted paint and paint packaging to the Resene PaintWise service, it can be redistributed to community groups, reused and recycled.
So next time you are in the mood to decorate, clear the clutter first. Start with those unwanted paints in your garage that are gathering dust. Round them up, bring them into the Resene PaintWise service available at more than 40 Resene ColorShops nationwide and give them a new lease of life.
And while you’re at the store, check out some of the sumptuous and exciting colours from Resene’s The Range 2008. You’ll see many of the colours represented within the pages of this magazine, and some inspiring ways to use them. After years of our interiors being fairly neutral, we’d like to encourage you to embrace the latest trend towards stronger colour – to feel comfortable while you read our ‘feel-good’ issue. Happy reading!
The Resene team
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