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A durable, warm and cohesive home makes for happy tenants and landlords. It's super easy to refresh your rental property with little effort to create high impact! Here's 3 ways to update your rental property: 1. Freshen up your paint work. A new paint colour can immediately modernise and tidy up the property. Remember to always purchase some extra paint for touch ups  and label your paint can!  Some favourite paint colours to consider for a fresh yet neutral colour scheme are:    Resene Milk White is a lovely soft white and bang on trend as we move towards warmer whites for our homes...

If your boundary fence is tired and you want to update it without making it a feature - paint it dark! A dark fence visually recedes ... BOOM- the surrounding plants or house will be the main event (not the old fence!).  Here are my top 5 Resene paint colours to makeover your tired fence: Resene Bokora Grey. This is such a goodie. A warm bown black, the slight hint of brown softens the black.  Resene Foundry, or even darker - Double Foundry. This has a slight blue undertone, and nice and dark. This is popular for fences as it works with most...

It's that time again when the experts who have poured over international trends and data to show us what is new and exciting in colour. And boy did the launch of the Dulux Colour forecast deliver with bold and exciting colour palettes.  This forecast was totally in my wheel house with talk of nurturing your home and the energy of colours.     The Journey palette resonated immediately with me. Using warm colours and celebrating the personal treasures that you have collected along the way and weaving all of these into a home you love. Mixing what what could be seen as retro colours, such as warm...

Go a bit deeper...try a mid-tone neutral paint colour. Adding a mid neutral toned paint colour (not too dark, not too light) is a great idea where natural light varies in a room. White would be too shadowy and look dirty on these walls. Mid tone neutrals are colours we see in nature, that have a bit more depth and sit in the middle range between light and dark paint colours, often giving a cosier vibe. The clients were so happy with this paint colour that they continued the colour into the surrounding rooms.  Paint colour pictured Resene Half Lemon Grass. Read more...

Let's redo your bedroom! Often we know when something isn't working. A room can just niggle at us; it doesn't have the feeling we are after and it just isn't functioning for us. If this is your bedroom, it's time to fix it. Start with a plan 1. Think about what do you do in your bedroom (apart from the obvious). Do you watch tv, read, sit and have cups of tea, dress, use it as a "parents retreat?" Write these down, as this will help you decide what kind of lighting and extras you need in your room other than...