08 Jul 2025
Amesbury School in Wellington’s fast-growing suburb of Churton Park has recently entered a vibrant new phase. Designed by McKenzie Higham Architects (MHA), the original school campus opened over a decade…
10 Mar 2025
The latest Resene Total Colour Awards winners have been announced at a colourful evening as part of Auckland Design Week. With a wide range of creative and colourful projects from…
22 Jan 2025
When decorating or renovating your home, it’s important to know what each part is called so you can make the best possible design choices that accentuate your home’s unique architecture…
17 Sep 2024
It’s not too late to enter this amazing competition. You could win a $4,000 Décor voucher thanks to the Parnell Business Association to spend in one of the eligible participating…
08 Jul 2024
For as long as humans have been building and decorating, hues borrowed from nature have been used ubiquitously. Before the advent of modern paints, earth-derived pigments that occurred naturally in…
11 Apr 2024
Auckland artists Kim Littlejohn and Carol Green recently unveiled their new mural 'Bringing nature to the city' on the wall of a building off Lloyd Avenue, Mt Albert.
Kim and Carol…
20 Apr 2023
With their stunning and versatile range of luxurious wool carpets, Godfrey Hirst have released their Farm to Floor designer guide to give you some interior inspiration for your home. The…
17 Apr 2023
With their stunning and versatile range of luxurious wool carpets, Godfrey Hirst have released their Farm to Floor designer guide to give you some interior inspiration for your next project.…
17 Feb 2022
Many of us have seen the disturbing photos of sea life tangled in rubbish floating in the ocean, but did you know that most of this pollution is generated on…
26 Jan 2021
The Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony has long been one of northern Otago’s most successful tourism attractions. Operated by Tourism Waitaki, it hosts an upward of 80,000 visitors a year who…
18 Sep 2014
It’s coming up for exterior house painting season, or more commonly known as summer.
The long, dry, warm days ahead are perfect for updating the outside of your house. Here are…
13 Apr 2017
Looking like a crackle-glaze, aged paint or even bark, this stunning wallpaper just makes you want to reach out and touch it. Of course the effect is complements of today's…
06 Jun 2017
You'll find this wonderful Snoopy letter box at the end of Robert Raines' driveway in Ohaupo – Robert created it himself, made using testpots in Resene Bright Red, Resene White and Resene Black, with Resene Pont Cabbage for the…
20 Nov 2019
“This is the sort of thing retired architects do with too much time on their hands,” according to David Wood, a retired architect who recently made this secure postbox out…
08 Jan 2020
One year ago today, I had just completed the road trip of a lifetime. My partner and I had driven from Christchurch out to Queenstown, over to Milford Sound, down…