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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, and welcome to If These Walls Could Talk, the
Razine podcast, where we discuss ideas on decorating, color and
all things paint. Join us as we welcome guests from
across the world of design. If there's something you'd love
to hear about, email the team editor at Habitat by
Razine dot co dot nz. This week, we're talking with
(00:22):
Razine color consultants Brenda Amy and Angela.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Tell me about your favorite Razine colors.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I've never really been in love with one particular color,
so it really does depend on how I'm feeling. But
you know, you flick through the latest fashion color fan deck,
say I flip through it tomorrow, and you know you'll
come across the color and you're look at it and go, hey,
when did you sneak in there? And suddenly you realize
that you've found a color that you didn't even see
(00:49):
before that you're suddenly drawn to. So when talking about
what my favorite colors are today, yeah, look, I mean
I'm going to name what I was actually fucking through
here the other day. There was one that came to me.
I was like, hang on a second, when did you
get on there? Cheeky little thing? It was a green
(01:10):
and you know, greens are very very now they round you.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And oh, there's very calming.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
And I think we're all going into a space where
we want to be calm and feel relaxed and feel
connected to the environment as well, you know, connected to nature.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
You've got your greens and you know your neutrals and yeah,
I mean smashed avocado for example, it's oh, gorgeous, beautiful color.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
And you can suddenly be flicking through the chat and
find this color on there.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
And go, wow, this is amazing. I love it so much.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
We're going to use this, or you know, blues, the
teals I've always been naturally drawn to. We've got deep
Teel from our fashion color twenty twenty four, which is
really beautiful, Rolling Hills, which is this really gorgeous you know,
deep deep green.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
So I've always been drawn to, probably the greens, without
even realizing what was.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Colours would have been so five years ago. I think
it was on a tun to leave. I was probably
looking at white like I wanted like just simplicity. I didn't,
That's what I'm talking Like.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Color is so connected to how you feel it is,
so you're like, I want clean I want simple, so
you're going down the natural's path, right.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
So I had my newborn, but then I also had
a boy who was four, so you know, I was
experimenting with little bits of color in his room. I
think it was like the blacks, yellows and the whites,
and just trying to keep things a little bit fun
for him but not too primary. So it's very easy
just to kind of think, oh, just kind of fall
into the primary colors all the time, whereas it doesn't
(02:38):
have to be that way. I do know that when
I had my firstborn, I went I painted my lounge
and a ducky blue because I just wanted to have
a nesting place that when I got home from hospital,
I felt calmed. I felt like I was being hugged
by these walls. You know, in a safe place. It's
got to feel true to you, not true to anybody else,
(03:01):
because it's your space.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Amy, tell me, do you have a favorite and it
can be just you know, within the palette? Do you
have a favorite razine color at the moment that you're drawn.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
To absolutely, like I'm obsessed with like the greens, Like
I am a.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Green theme here.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Green is like anyone that knows me. Green's my favorite
color and it always has. The only difference is what
kind of undertone the green has. So like at the moment,
I'm more into the kind of more olive palettes of
the greens and bringing in a little bit more warmth,
but still keeping it fairly deep and dark as well.
(03:37):
So I love like Siam. It's very much a way
of bringing those outdoors in. So you're seeing lots of
people using like timber and things like that, and the
greens for me, just work perfectly with that. It's that
natural extension of the outdoor environment. So I love it
so between Siam and then the lighter color tones of
(03:59):
razine Field, I absolutely love that because it can be
an accent or it can be a color that you
immerse yourself in and have it on all the.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Walls, fainting all of the walls and ceiling is it
almost blurs the lines, I find, and it's something that
can be really cocooning. And often with the dark neutrals,
you know, if they choose a color like risine Jaguar
or something like that and you do all of the
walls and it just feels like, you know, in a
master bedroom or something like that that can be just.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Oh well exactly because quite often you've got those kind
of lighter color waves in your douvets and things like that,
so it lends itself to actually being dark on all
the walls. And I love it when people do commit
to it, especially in that master bedroom, because you've already
got a double bed, headboards, bedside tables that break it up.
So even though it can feel like quite an intense
(04:48):
commitment on all the walls, there's actually a lot of
furniture in that space that softens it. Likewise, in the bathrooms, we.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Can really let our imagination run free. It's great, very
much so.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
So now, five years ago, Amy, what would you say
your favorite razine color was.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
I was obsessed with Zinzan So that was from the
twenty eighteen fashion range and I did. I did it
on all the walls. I remember having an argument with
my partner about it because he didn't want it, and
I was like, no, this is what we're doing because
I need to see it up.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Tell me about razine Zinzen. It's not one that I'm
totally familiar with.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
It's a super deep inky blue, so it's similar to
Indian ink.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I think yep. Oh great. So it's this lovely, almost
royal nature that's quite different to the greens. All right, Brenda,
coming to you. What's your favorite razine color at the moment?
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Just recently, probably over the last year, I moved. I've
got a little sleep out on my property and I've
moved in there and we did it up and it's
an old wooden sheared original but we've reclined it and
now it's really gorgeou and put some French doors in.
But it has this retro vibe to it. So I
(06:00):
used a color called Chelsea Cucumber, which is a retro
type of green. It's in our multi finish range actually,
and I just put it on the end war where
there's a big window that looks out into the beautiful
garden and it's got open rafters as well as everything
else is alabasta. So that's what I chose because I
just felt the interior of the sleepout its open plant.
(06:24):
So I just followed suit and did that, and I
just I'm so in love with it.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I'm so in love with it.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
It's quite a sort of a vibrantish color, but the
amount of white galance is it out Yu.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Because Elabase is quite a bright one. It's a bright white.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Yeah yeah, so but this Chelsea cucumber, there's an intensity
to it.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
I mean, I love the idea that you've got it
against the window so that there's a big window.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
So just it's a lovely frame to look out onto
the garden because there's palm trees and things out there
as well. So it's that kind of works really well.
And what about looking back on colors you loved five
years ago? In my bedroom, I fell in love with
this color called white Linen, and it's a very very
very soft, gorgeous off white pink undertone.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
I know it because I love it. You love a
pink undertone if you're cozy. It's exactly there. It's exactly that.
It's quite sophisticated pink. Absolutely, I see. I think pink
is quite sophisticated, the right pink. Now I want to
talk about learning experiences.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Perhaps in hindsight, things could have gone a little better.
Now I'm going to start with you, Angela.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I knew you were going to There's loads of colors,
but there's also loads of colors that have the same name,
and it's really important for quality control. Just to always
check the color first before it goes on the building.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Because yeah, in a commercial.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Did somebody did and it does happen, you know, just
checking the details.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Did it go on the walls? And no one realized
that it was on the.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Wall but on the outside of commercial building and that
was going to and they'll be wondering.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Was looking very blue? Oh, Brenda, how about you.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
A customer phoned me and she said that she has
used one of our colors and it's not it's wrong
and I hadn't I didn't specify the color. She just
needed some help. So one of the staff members put
her on to me because I deal with color. I
had a conversation with my colleagues and they said to me,
did they use her painters use our product? And so
(08:32):
I went back and asked her that and she said,
I think so. So she double checked with the painter.
But natural fact, they had used our color, but it
was in another company's paint product. But our tinters that
we use are different to other companies' tinters, and there
will always be a variant in the color. You know,
(08:52):
how she sees it in our razine store because all
of our colors are with our paint.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Was it a happy ending? It was?
Speaker 6 (09:00):
It was. We helped her out a little bit and
then she had to do a repaint, but I think
it was only a few rooms. It wasn't She made
them stop because she was she felt it wasn't right,
so they stopped the painting.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
That is a happy ending.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
It's much better getting the right razine color and paint,
and you know, something.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
To remember for everybody. Yeah, absolutely, what's happened with you?
Speaker 5 (09:21):
With my one, it's probably comes down to like discussions
with my partner really, and he's color blind. It's that
whole navigating that realm. And I'm definitely with being with
him starting to understand because you see, in particular old men, Yeah,
they actually don't even understand that they've got color blindness.
(09:45):
So it's not until you started having these conversations and
you're talking about a particular color tone and especially in
your reds or your green mixes, anything that's got a
bit of an undertone of another color, they see it
so differently, and it's not until you start this discussion
and it's like, hang on a minute.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
So how do you deal with it? Do you say,
explain that color to me?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yeah? And he comes up with a totally different to script.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
So, for example, I chose to paint my garden shed
and razine bluff, which to me is this beautiful blue.
It's got a hint of green. He's adamant it's green.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
It's just green. It's there's no blue.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
So it's been something that's been quite extraordinary to live
and to work with. And then with going out to
see people and talk about colors, it just goes to
show the importance of having a conversation before finalizing the color.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Do you guys find that it's different with men and women? Angela, Yes,
tell me your story. I was actually just thinking.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
I remember it would happen quite often when I was
working in the shop, and you would have a couple
coming together and they would, you know, not all the time,
but sometimes they would have their own ideas on what
they would see working and you would often feel like
you were there to be their.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Counselor counselor your job descriptions.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Oh yes, it dead and it would be it would
you'd feel like you were the mediator trying to like
verbalize how someone felt about a particular color, and then
you know, jumped across the mout and saying, okay, do
you feel And then they would say I just feel
this too feminine.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
And then they would say, but I want to have this.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
So then you're trying to find compromises or ways of
creating a not only a room, but a whole house.
So you've kind of got these different areas that allow
them both to have this save so it does get Really.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
You become the mediator absolutely.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
You know that the times I'd come home and think,
oh my gosh, I feel like that was that was.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
That was a big day. That was a big day.
It was a very big day.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
So there's always differences, isn't Yeah, And I don't think
it's just messed and feminine.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
It's just everybody has such a different reaction.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Definitely, thanks for joining us on if these Walls could talk.
Remember to send those questions through to editor at habitat
by Razine dot co dot zaid see you next time,
Hi, and welcome to If These Walls Could Talk, the
Razine podcast, where we discuss ideas on decorating, color and
all things paint. Join us as we welcome guests from
across the world of design. If there's something you'd love
to hear about, email the team editor at Habitat by
Razine dot co dot nz. This week, we're talking with
(00:22):
Razine color consultants Brenda Amy and Angela.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Tell me about your favorite Razine colors.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I've never really been in love with one particular color,
so it really does depend on how I'm feeling. But
you know, you flick through the latest fashion color fan deck,
say I flip through it tomorrow, and you know you'll
come across the color and you're look at it and go, hey,
when did you sneak in there? And suddenly you realize
that you've found a color that you didn't even see
(00:49):
before that you're suddenly drawn to. So when talking about
what my favorite colors are today, yeah, look, I mean
I'm going to name what I was actually fucking through
here the other day. There was one that came to me.
I was like, hang on a second, when did you
get on there? Cheeky little thing? It was a green
(01:10):
and you know, greens are very very now they round you.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And oh, there's very calming.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
And I think we're all going into a space where
we want to be calm and feel relaxed and feel
connected to the environment as well, you know, connected to nature.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
You've got your greens and you know your neutrals and yeah,
I mean smashed avocado for example, it's oh, gorgeous, beautiful color.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
And you can suddenly be flicking through the chat and
find this color on there.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
And go, wow, this is amazing. I love it so much.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
We're going to use this, or you know, blues, the
teals I've always been naturally drawn to. We've got deep
Teel from our fashion color twenty twenty four, which is
really beautiful, Rolling Hills, which is this really gorgeous you know,
deep deep green.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
So I've always been drawn to, probably the greens, without
even realizing what was.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Colours would have been so five years ago. I think
it was on a tun to leave. I was probably
looking at white like I wanted like just simplicity. I didn't,
That's what I'm talking Like.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Color is so connected to how you feel it is,
so you're like, I want clean I want simple, so
you're going down the natural's path, right.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
So I had my newborn, but then I also had
a boy who was four, so you know, I was
experimenting with little bits of color in his room. I
think it was like the blacks, yellows and the whites,
and just trying to keep things a little bit fun
for him but not too primary. So it's very easy
just to kind of think, oh, just kind of fall
into the primary colors all the time, whereas it doesn't
(02:38):
have to be that way. I do know that when
I had my firstborn, I went I painted my lounge
and a ducky blue because I just wanted to have
a nesting place that when I got home from hospital,
I felt calmed. I felt like I was being hugged
by these walls. You know, in a safe place. It's
got to feel true to you, not true to anybody else,
(03:01):
because it's your space.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Amy, tell me, do you have a favorite and it
can be just you know, within the palette? Do you
have a favorite razine color at the moment that you're drawn.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
To absolutely, like I'm obsessed with like the greens, Like
I am a.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Green theme here.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Green is like anyone that knows me. Green's my favorite
color and it always has. The only difference is what
kind of undertone the green has. So like at the moment,
I'm more into the kind of more olive palettes of
the greens and bringing in a little bit more warmth,
but still keeping it fairly deep and dark as well.
(03:37):
So I love like Siam. It's very much a way
of bringing those outdoors in. So you're seeing lots of
people using like timber and things like that, and the
greens for me, just work perfectly with that. It's that
natural extension of the outdoor environment. So I love it
so between Siam and then the lighter color tones of
(03:59):
razine Field, I absolutely love that because it can be
an accent or it can be a color that you
immerse yourself in and have it on all the.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Walls, fainting all of the walls and ceiling is it
almost blurs the lines, I find, and it's something that
can be really cocooning. And often with the dark neutrals,
you know, if they choose a color like risine Jaguar
or something like that and you do all of the
walls and it just feels like, you know, in a
master bedroom or something like that that can be just.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Oh well exactly because quite often you've got those kind
of lighter color waves in your douvets and things like that,
so it lends itself to actually being dark on all
the walls. And I love it when people do commit
to it, especially in that master bedroom, because you've already
got a double bed, headboards, bedside tables that break it up.
So even though it can feel like quite an intense
(04:48):
commitment on all the walls, there's actually a lot of
furniture in that space that softens it. Likewise, in the bathrooms, we.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Can really let our imagination run free. It's great, very
much so.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
So now, five years ago, Amy, what would you say
your favorite razine color was.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
I was obsessed with Zinzan So that was from the
twenty eighteen fashion range and I did. I did it
on all the walls. I remember having an argument with
my partner about it because he didn't want it, and
I was like, no, this is what we're doing because
I need to see it up.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Tell me about razine Zinzen. It's not one that I'm
totally familiar with.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
It's a super deep inky blue, so it's similar to
Indian ink.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I think yep. Oh great. So it's this lovely, almost
royal nature that's quite different to the greens. All right, Brenda,
coming to you. What's your favorite razine color at the moment?
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Just recently, probably over the last year, I moved. I've
got a little sleep out on my property and I've
moved in there and we did it up and it's
an old wooden sheared original but we've reclined it and
now it's really gorgeou and put some French doors in.
But it has this retro vibe to it. So I
(06:00):
used a color called Chelsea Cucumber, which is a retro
type of green. It's in our multi finish range actually,
and I just put it on the end war where
there's a big window that looks out into the beautiful
garden and it's got open rafters as well as everything
else is alabasta. So that's what I chose because I
just felt the interior of the sleepout its open plant.
(06:24):
So I just followed suit and did that, and I
just I'm so in love with it.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I'm so in love with it.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
It's quite a sort of a vibrantish color, but the
amount of white galance is it out Yu.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Because Elabase is quite a bright one. It's a bright white.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Yeah yeah, so but this Chelsea cucumber, there's an intensity
to it.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
I mean, I love the idea that you've got it
against the window so that there's a big window.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
So just it's a lovely frame to look out onto
the garden because there's palm trees and things out there
as well. So it's that kind of works really well.
And what about looking back on colors you loved five
years ago? In my bedroom, I fell in love with
this color called white Linen, and it's a very very
very soft, gorgeous off white pink undertone.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
I know it because I love it. You love a
pink undertone if you're cozy. It's exactly there. It's exactly that.
It's quite sophisticated pink. Absolutely, I see. I think pink
is quite sophisticated, the right pink. Now I want to
talk about learning experiences.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Perhaps in hindsight, things could have gone a little better.
Now I'm going to start with you, Angela.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I knew you were going to There's loads of colors,
but there's also loads of colors that have the same name,
and it's really important for quality control. Just to always
check the color first before it goes on the building.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Because yeah, in a commercial.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Did somebody did and it does happen, you know, just
checking the details.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Did it go on the walls? And no one realized
that it was on the.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Wall but on the outside of commercial building and that
was going to and they'll be wondering.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Was looking very blue? Oh, Brenda, how about you.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
A customer phoned me and she said that she has
used one of our colors and it's not it's wrong
and I hadn't I didn't specify the color. She just
needed some help. So one of the staff members put
her on to me because I deal with color. I
had a conversation with my colleagues and they said to me,
did they use her painters use our product? And so
(08:32):
I went back and asked her that and she said,
I think so. So she double checked with the painter.
But natural fact, they had used our color, but it
was in another company's paint product. But our tinters that
we use are different to other companies' tinters, and there
will always be a variant in the color. You know,
(08:52):
how she sees it in our razine store because all
of our colors are with our paint.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Was it a happy ending? It was?
Speaker 6 (09:00):
It was. We helped her out a little bit and
then she had to do a repaint, but I think
it was only a few rooms. It wasn't She made
them stop because she was she felt it wasn't right,
so they stopped the painting.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
That is a happy ending.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
It's much better getting the right razine color and paint,
and you know, something.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
To remember for everybody. Yeah, absolutely, what's happened with you?
Speaker 5 (09:21):
With my one, it's probably comes down to like discussions
with my partner really, and he's color blind. It's that
whole navigating that realm. And I'm definitely with being with
him starting to understand because you see, in particular old men, Yeah,
they actually don't even understand that they've got color blindness.
(09:45):
So it's not until you started having these conversations and
you're talking about a particular color tone and especially in
your reds or your green mixes, anything that's got a
bit of an undertone of another color, they see it
so differently, and it's not until you start this discussion
and it's like, hang on a minute.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
So how do you deal with it? Do you say,
explain that color to me?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yeah? And he comes up with a totally different to script.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
So, for example, I chose to paint my garden shed
and razine bluff, which to me is this beautiful blue.
It's got a hint of green. He's adamant it's green.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
It's just green. It's there's no blue.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
So it's been something that's been quite extraordinary to live
and to work with. And then with going out to
see people and talk about colors, it just goes to
show the importance of having a conversation before finalizing the color.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Do you guys find that it's different with men and women? Angela, Yes,
tell me your story. I was actually just thinking.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
I remember it would happen quite often when I was
working in the shop, and you would have a couple
coming together and they would, you know, not all the time,
but sometimes they would have their own ideas on what
they would see working and you would often feel like
you were there to be their.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Counselor counselor your job descriptions.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Oh yes, it dead and it would be it would
you'd feel like you were the mediator trying to like
verbalize how someone felt about a particular color, and then
you know, jumped across the mout and saying, okay, do
you feel And then they would say I just feel
this too feminine.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
And then they would say, but I want to have this.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
So then you're trying to find compromises or ways of
creating a not only a room, but a whole house.
So you've kind of got these different areas that allow
them both to have this save so it does get Really.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
You become the mediator absolutely.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
You know that the times I'd come home and think,
oh my gosh, I feel like that was that was.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
That was a big day. That was a big day.
It was a very big day.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
So there's always differences, isn't Yeah, And I don't think
it's just messed and feminine.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
It's just everybody has such a different reaction.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Definitely, thanks for joining us on if these Walls could talk.
Remember to send those questions through to editor at habitat
by Razine dot co dot zaid see you next time,
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