This clinker brick house has been utterly transformed with a lot of imagination and hard work. The owners painstakingly chiseled off the raised parts of the brick before being painted in Resene Bokara Grey. The colour was chosen as an excellent match to the existing bronze-coloured joinery.

Owner Urszula Sherrell then painted one wall of the entranceway in Resene Triple Sea Fog as a break from the dark colour. To match the copper spouting, she then experimented with a mix of Resene Bokara Grey and Resene Milk Chocolate for the right shade. 

Faced with lumpy plaster, a weird profile and little street appeal, the owners of this 1970s house had one thing on their mind: to reclad. Working with the steeply pitched gable, they hid the big side lean-to behind a parapet, and framed the entire house in Rockcote aerated concrete panels. Letting the texture of the new weatherboards and the panels be the feature, they then painted the entire house in Resene Sea Fog.  

A good clean-up and a new colour scheme has turned the Shand house in Invercargill from a plain Jane to a smart character home. The couple removed a clutter of 1970s attachments like timber shutters, a garden arch, and scrolled edging.

The Shands then knocked on the door of a house with colours they liked, discovering the scheme to be Resene Triple Thorndon Cream cladding with a Resene Ironsand roof. They then added Resene Eighth Thorndon Cream on the window frames. The green-edged toned of the Resene Thorndon Cream variants now beautifully offset the feature red bricks and tidied garden. 

The modernist lines and striking window configurations of this home weren’t a problem… but the plaster cladding was. The owners commissioned Sketch Architecture to come up with a cladding solution. They kept the parapet design but simplified the facade by removing the 'eyebrows' above the windows.

Vertical cedar cladding was chosen to add interest via shadow lines with two different profiles give a subtle change between the main house, and the garage and cantilevered entry canopy. It was finished in Resene Woodsman Wood Oil stain tinted to Resene Shadow Match. New exterior lights further accentuate the form of the house. 

This faded 1960s townhouse has been utterly transformed by designer Andrea Burney. Removing all traces of ‘the brown era’ she reschemed the exterior using Resene Rampart for the cladding, Resene Nero for the trims and Resene Half White Pointer for the fascia and soffit.