b'editorialwelcomeIf the past couple of years has taught us anything, its how important our home environment is and how important it is to look after ourselves.When youre working from home or spending longer indoors, you quickly realise how much the place you live in impacts your mood and even how well you do things. Zoom calls can be pretty distracting when you notice your unpainted skirting board or when you are too scared to move the camera in case anyone catches a glimpse of the unwashed dishes on your bench. While they wont clean your dishes for you, Resene paints are a great way to provide a Architecture & refresh, be it transforming your home with on-trend Resene colours (see page 6) or by going with the flow with some relaxing techniques for mental health (see page 49). Reinvention, renovation or rejuvenation is just a testpot away.I was never good at drawing at school. Much to my frustration, and that of Craftsmanship the (sighing) teacher looking over my shoulder, my sketches would always come out as smudgy messes, and my sculptures were monstrous creationsnightmare territory. After the artistic disappointments in my formative years, its come as a surprise to me decades later just how much I enjoy painting. Be it painting walls in my home or random arts and craft projects such as a papier-mch kiwi, its taken me many decades to discover the best artform of all: theAre you working on a projectart of not caring what anyone else thinks about what you create. If you stripwith Resene paints, stains or away the expectation and judgement and focus on the colour and brushstrokeswallpaper? Wed love to see it! Resene Share it with us on email,alone, the feeling of dipping a brush into paint and spreading it on a wall or aBurnt CrimsonInstagram or Facebook!canvas is truly joyful. editor@habitatbyresene.co.nzThe great thing about paintwhether its on your walls or on a canvasis habitatbyresenethat if you dont like it or need a change, you can paint over it and start habitatbyreseneagain. Im constantly inspired by our readers who arent afraid to return to the drawing board and reinvent their home environments with freshReseneForest GreenResene colours. So go on, dip in your brushyoull love the experience.Happy reading! Two of my favourite colours from the Resene Multi-finish collectionReseneResene Emma Rawson editor Sauvignon Coral TreeWhen you work with paint and colour long enough, you thinkidentity through our treasures and colour palette. Each of us can Driven to create surfaces that make a living environment you would have seen every variation possible. And yet, somehow,choose whatever combination makes our project and heart sing.durable, feel and look good to live in. Enjoy the beautyevery day, someone somewhere discovers a way to use ReseneAs much as we hope to inspire and help you with your projects, and tactile nature of hand applied, bespoke plasterpaints and colours in a whole new way. your projects inspire and help us too.And thats what makes Resene such a fascinating place to work.Your questions motivate us to create new formulations, new in your home Just when you think you have learnt it all, you find another way toproducts and new colours to help you achieve what you have do something, a new technology to play with and new colourimagined. Your helpful feedback enables us to look at things from combinations to consider. Its what drives our team in their constantanother point of view. And your project photos and stories showing quest to discover and develop whats next. us the new ways you have found to use your favourite Resene Sure, there are instructions with all our products (and, yes, weproducts and colours are not just appreciated by us, they are also do recommend you follow them!), but that doesnt mean you cantvalued by many readers looking for ideas.experiment with layering unique paint colour combinations, playThank you for sharing your questions, ideas and project stories with colour placements and use creative application techniques toand please keep them rolling in.your hearts content. Happy decorating!The joy of paint is that each of us can choose a completelythe Resene teamdifferentcombinationsothatourhomeuniquelyreflectsourResene MulberryRockcote Otsumigakireseneconstruction.co.nz 30800 50 70 40'