Enter now: the Resene Small Room Awards 2023

29 Jun 2023

Have you done something bold or interesting with paint or wallpaper in a small room in your house? It could be an office, nursery, laundry or powder room – the only criteria is it’s small in space but big in impact.

Your Home & Garden and Resene would love to see your efforts. Enter some images of your chosen room and be in with a chance to win $1000 in our Small Room Awards!

What we’re looking for:

• Fearless use of colour and/or pattern
• Exciting use of wallpaper
• Imaginative decoration and finishing.

How to enter:

Email photos and a 200-word description of your space to [email protected] with your last name and ‘Resene Small Room’ in the subject line. Please include your name, home address, email address, daytime phone number, the names of the Resene colours and/or Resene wallpapers used, and details of when your space was painted and/or wallpapered. Please credit anyone who assisted you in choosing your colours.

The five finalists will each appear in Your Home and Garden. Every finalist will receive a $250 Resene ColorShop voucher and a feature in the magazine, with the winner taking out the Resene Small Room Awards and $1000 cash, plus a story on the winning home will feature in the February 2024 issue. 

Terms & Conditions:

Instructions on how to enter are part of the conditions of entry. This competition is open to New Zealand residents, except employees of Are Media, Resene and their immediate families and agencies. The five finalists and overall winner will be notified by telephone and/or email. All entries are eligible for consideration for the Resene website. Any non-finalists selected for the Resene website will receive a free gift from Resene. 

Main picture: Winner of Resene Small Room Awards 2022. Andrea Kurth’s decision to paint a punchy and playful mural on a white wall in her ‘plain’ laundry turned out to be a winning move. The judges of the Resene Small Room Awards 2022 loved Andrea’s ingenious use of Resene testpots, proving a little paint colour can go a long way. Her mural, created using Resene Rock Spray, Resene Gondwana, Resene Paper Doll, Resene Fuel Yellow and Resene Half Escape, evokes a naturalistic dreamscape of fauna and flora, bursting with pops of colour on top of her existing coat of Resene Black White.

Published: 29 Jun 2023