Our favourite rooms on Three’s The Block…

We’re halfway through this year’s The Block NZ, with six room reveals under the teams’ belts. Week by week, the… more

Our favourite rooms on Three’s The Block NZ… so far

Natalie and Dan’s modern, monochromatic Waikato build

Natalie and Dan Isaac may have had to live in a sleepout for a year while waiting on their house… more

Natalie and Dan’s modern, monochromatic Waikato build

Bob’s award winning ultra efficient 'superhome'

With a contemporary design and walls freshly painted in Resene Black White, this Christchurch home is already full of appeal.… more

Bob’s award winning ultra efficient 'superhome'

Rethinking pink and red walls

Pink and red is a divisive colour combo and can have homeowners scratching their heads on how to get it… more

Rethinking pink and red walls

Rethinking pink and red walls

Pink and red is a divisive colour combo and can have homeowners scratching their heads on how to get it… more

Rethinking pink and red walls

Rethinking pink and red walls

Pink and red is a divisive colour combo and can have homeowners scratching their heads on how to get it… more

Rethinking pink and red walls

Dean and Delia’s delightful blue cottage by…

What was once a modest bach in a seaside East Auckland suburb is now an eye-catching beauty, painted in an… more

Dean and Delia’s delightful blue cottage by the sea

Sweeten up study time

Kids heading back to school can fall into two camps... either they are excited to return to the rhythm of… more

Sweeten up study time

Sweeten up study time

Kids heading back to school can fall into two camps... either they are excited to return to the rhythm of… more

Sweeten up study time

Vivienne and Geoff's elegant, French-style home

Finished in elegant Resene neutrals and glam-meets-French Country furnishings, Vivienne and Geoff Pitman's home is a beautiful new build.  

The Waikato townhouse is… more

Vivienne and Geoff's elegant, French-style home

Kate and Matt's ever bolder colour adventure

Tucked down the end of a forking driveway, sharing a fence with the local school, Kate Alexander and Matt Kardos' home feels… more

Kate and Matt's ever bolder colour adventure

From drab to fab: Julia and Jordan's…

Sun streams into the open plan kitchen and dining room of Julia and Jordan Rogers' home, hitting the bold Resene Quarter… more

From drab to fab: Julia and Jordan's edgy character home

From drab to fab: Julia and Jordan's…

Sun streams into the open plan kitchen and dining room of Julia and Jordan Rogers' home, hitting the bold Resene Quarter… more

From drab to fab: Julia and Jordan's edgy character home

Wallpaper trends: the weird and wonderful

Wallpaper designer Dave Abbotts takes us on a journey of current wallpaper trends.

If you look at the current landscape of… more

Wallpaper trends: the weird and wonderful

Marcus and Melanie ring in the blues

At just 23-years-old, Marcus and Melanie decided to buy and do up their first house... and what a house it is.

Drawn… more

Marcus and Melanie ring in the blues

Designer captures the Cape Cod style

Before its renovation, this late 1990s home on Auckland's North Shore was in desperate need of a refit. But it had something… more

Designer captures the Cape Cod style

Colin and Wendy find purity in white

When Colin and Wendy planned a house to replace their old 1950s Mangawhai Heads bach, they had a very clear… more

Colin and Wendy find purity in white

Take one Resene testpot…

Resene testpots are the handiest little tubs of colour around. For just a few gold coins you can use one,… more

Take one Resene testpot…

Mike and Jenni do it for the…

It may be partly in jest, but ask Mike and Jenni Callaghan what influenced the colour scheme of their new… more

Mike and Jenni do it for the dog

The not-so-naked truth about painted furniture

Bored of naked furniture? Does the timber look not fit your style? Just paint it. Painted furniture is the new craze… more

The not-so-naked truth about painted furniture