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painting & decorating
DESPITE THE CHALLENGING year, the winners of the 2020 Resene Total Colour Awards have “shown the power of colour and creativity to change space, mood and emotions”.
“A little paint, colour and passion can reinvent any surface,” says Resene.
What the program couldn’t change however was the series of restrictions brought about by Covid-19, so this year there has been no physical awards event.
Instead we can reveal that the top award, the Colour Master Nightingale Award for the best overall use of colour, this year went to Ann Shelton and Duncan Munro for “an unexpectedly playful and energising palette of historically appropriate colours” in a modernist house in Wellington.
Designed by Frederick Ost and with its origins in the late 1950s, the Nancy Martin House is also significant for Nancy Martin being possibly the first single woman in Wellington to obtain a mortgage to build her own home.
63 years later, the Resene Total Colour Award judges said of the refurbished project: “Colour selections have been ever so faithfully chosen to honour and respect the original.
“It reminds us all to make the most of what is already there –
sometimes all that is needed are fresh coats of paint colour to make old new again.
“So much passion and painstaking research and attention to detail has been poured into choosing just the right colours and placing them ever so carefully in the right places.
“This home is loved by colour.”
This project also took out the 2020 Residential Heritage category and uses Resene Mexican Red, Resene Sea Mist, Resene Burning Sand, Resene Shadow Green, Resene Primrose, Resene Pearl Lusta, Resene Neptune, Resene Mist Grey and Resene Rose.
A project of a very different colour (forgive the pun) and the runner-up to the top award was the Hawkes Bay Opera House Upgrade by Dave Pearson of DPA Architects, which took out the 2020 Colour Master Nightingale Colour Maestro Award as well as the Colour Heritage Commercial Award.
Having re-opened in February, the Hawkes Bay Opera House was built in 1915 and is described as one of the top lyric theatres in Australasia.
The judges said of this entry: “Opening back up in grand style, this project is steeped in colour, so richly and dramatically
Wattyl debuts
low VOC interior range
Wattyl has developed one of the lowest VOC interior paints available, at less than 1g per litre. Far exceeding all green building requirements and carrying a licence from Environmental Choice New Zealand (ECNZ), Wattyl I.D Advanced is verified to the Good Environmental Choice Australia Programme (GECA) and approved to the Australian Paint Approval Scheme (APAS). Wattyl I.D Advanced is also beneficial for indoor air quality while its Total Protection Technology offers mould resistance and bacterial inhibitors, on top of advanced cleanability, washability and stain resistance. With matt, low sheen and satin wall finishes as well as a ceiling flat, durable and easy-application Wattyl I.D Advanced interior paints offer touch dry times of 30 minutes and recoat times of two hours. Coverage of the I.D Advanced wall finishes is 16m2 while the Ceiling Flat has a coverage rate of 14m2.
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Watch the stairs!
Haydn says its Ram Board Stair Armor is the industry’s first paperboard stair protection product. Made with heavy-duty Ram Board, Stair Armor is the absolute end-all of stair protection. Features include: heavy-duty temporary stair protection; reinforced bull-nose guard; adjustable tread; spill guard technology; non-staining; recycled/recyclable; comes in a pack of 6.
www.haydn.co.nz
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