Enter now: Resene Colour Home Awards 2025/26

25 Sep 2025

Here’s your reminder to enter the Resene Colour Home Awards and show of your most colourful spaces featuring Resene paints. And you’ve got a chance to win and outstanding $5000!

Resene and Your Home & Garden are on the lookout for the most stunning interior or exterior colour scheme created with Resene paints to be featured in Your Home & Garden magazine.

There will be six finalists that will each appear in Your Home & Garden, starting in this month’s issue. Every finalist will receive a $250 Resene voucher and a feature in the magazine, with the winner taking out the Resene Colour Home Award and $5000 cash. An extended story on the winning home will feature in the March 2026 issue.

What we are looking for:

• Clever interior colours
• Inventive paint projects
• Exciting exterior paint colour schemes

How to enter: 

Email photos and a 200-word or more description of your space to [email protected] with your last name and 'Resene Colour Home' in the subject line. Please include your name, home address, email address, daytime phone number, the names of the Resene colours used and details of when your space was painted. Please credit anyone who assisted you in choosing your colours. Competition closes 8 December 2025.

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The 2024/25 Resene Colour Home Awards winner’s work on her holiday house proves that a shoestring budget is no obstacle to true creativity.

It’s hard to believe that this is Bridgette Lawrence’s first serious foray into decorating with different colours. A big fan of a neutral palette, Bridgette decided to take on the project of refreshing her family bach in Waitaki Lakes.

“While the bach has always represented a place to make great memories, its function was countered by its lack of aesthetics,” Bridgette says. Armed with 10 Resene paint colours and one wallpaper, she set to work breathing new life into the 1950s property. The result that followed is a colour-rich haven that pays homage to the landscape that surrounds them.

Resene SpaceCote Low Sheen in Resene Saltpan was her neutral, which she then countered with greens and blues such as Resene Juniper, Resene Gecko, Resene Atomic, Resene Cinder and Resene Balderdash. Then she added sporadic bursts of exciting colour, with circles of Resene Yuma, Resene Tuscany and Resene Golden Sand appearing in the bedrooms and kitchen.

“Bridgette’s home is the perfect example of a successful ‘paint-over’ and how a little Resene colour can go a long way to make your space feel new without the time and expense of a full reno,” says Resene marketing manager Karen Warman. “Bridgette has cleverly used Resene Saltpan for her main neutral, which helps to hero her accent colours and keeps things looking fresh.”

Being selected as this year’s winner has delighted Bridget. “I was ecstatic just to be chosen as a finalist, so actually winning has been a shockingly great surprise.”

Her words of advice to anyone wanting to follow her lead and take the leap into decorating with colour? “Be brave. Be bold. It’s only paint, and it can always be changed.”

Published: 25 Sep 2025