June 11, 2024 • 17 mins
The Resene Heritage Colour Palette helps owners of heritage homes create a colour scheme authentic to the age of their home. Resene Colour Expert Becca Long talks through the 'rules' of heritage home decoration and how to break them to great effect.
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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.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Beg Along, a Razine color consultant.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
For christ Church, Thank you so much for joining us
on If These Walls Could Talk.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
How's your day going?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Oh fabulous, I'm so happy to be here now.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I did want to talk to you about some specific
colors that the Razine range has and those are the
heritage colors.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
So many homeowners with older homes do strive to enhance
the true architectural heritage of their home with a lot
of these older colors, and Razine have an incredible range.
It's called the Razine Heritage Color Palette and it's the
ideal sting point for developing an authentic heritage scheme.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
And when a customer is looking at that, do they
need to stick to particular rules for where each of
those colors can go? Or can they just take their
fancy in and do whatever they wish?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I mean, it is a guideline.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
You can go down the track and recreate exact color schemes,
and we certainly have that option for you. But certainly
in modern times it's quite nice to mix and match
and sort.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Of you know, have you know, influence from the past.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
But there's definitely no reason why you can't change where
those colors are suited. But yeah, as I see, you
can absolutely go exact if you want to as well.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
So you're saying there's no hard and fast rules, but
Razine actually does offer that option if they want to.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Yeah, we've certainly we've got the rules, but we're absolutely
we're always keen to break rules too, So.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Depicding on what you're wanting to do, the home.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
You've got and the brief, we're absolutely keen to help
you whether you're wanting to have an exact color scheme
or one where you sort of just are influenced by
the past.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Oh it sounds gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Now, tell me if you don't actually have a heritage home,
so you have a home from the seventies.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
You don't necessarily have to have a Herota time to
enjoy hero atage colors. I love seeing, especially living rooms
with that sort of seventies theme, pulling in, you know,
the beautiful colors into the dead cord finishes is actually
a very popular look at the moment.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Absolutely, I've definitely seen that recently.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
It's kind of the HARKing back to that seventies era
of disco and it's just a little bit more fun.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I was just having a quick look again before we
caught up today and a lot of them.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah, they're popular again. It just goes full circle.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
It does, doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It's like style, it's like fashion, I mean, homes interiors.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
It does go full circle.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Have you noticed a trend in the timeline, like is
it ten years, twenty, is thirty? Is that you start
to see things coming around again?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yes and not.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
It almost varies a bit depending on almos what the
world is up to. So certainly the last two years
being quite hard, you know, with the pandemic, and people
have more comfort, and it's the sort of similar colors
that people were looking at, you know, post war times,
so they're looking for comfort in their colors. So I
guess you're almost replicating similar feelings from the past, and
(03:18):
that sort of when we see repetition, perhaps in color.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
If you're a novice and you're thinking, I love the
idea of these strong, bold colors that the Heritage range represents.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Where do I start.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Heritage color palette? Honestly, it's the best thing you can do.
Go into your local orrisine shop, pick up the color
palette and if so, just take the color palett home.
We almost put it on your dining table and keep
glancing out. You're going to gravitate towards more colors over others,
depending on sort of your needs and what you're interested in.
(03:50):
Take a minute to really have a good look at
it and see what pops for you, and then you
can sort of start developing around colors that you gravitate towards.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Of course, I mean that seems thing, isn't it, And
exactly what you're saying, you know, take home the palette
and have a look at it, have a look at
it through the fan deck.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And also would you recommend people use test.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Pots, because I mean, I have to say, when I've
painted on the walls, it jumps out as quite a
different feeling because then you can put it in different
areas of light around the house and see how the
paint reacts, especially when you're using those bolder colors.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Oh, absolutely, test pots at the best.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
So once you've sort of looked at your palette and
you have a bit more of a direction, or if
there's your own intrigued and a few colors, test pots
are the best next step.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I would recommend painting quite a large sample, so as
large as possible.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
We do have some big pieces of card available at
rezem to purchase where you can paint on your test spot.
And the benefit of that is you can actually move
it around the house. So if you are wanting to
use that color more than once, you can see it
in different lights, different rooms, and yeah, different environments because
you will find that that color does change depending on
where it's situated.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
So it's also times of the day that people need
to move it around, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Yeah, Absolutely different lighting and it's both natural and artificial.
So if you're looking, yeah, going back to that living room,
if you're going to do a living room, do test
it at night when you do have your lighting, and
in my might need to adjust your lighting to sort
of get that color to work for you. But you've
got to try it at multiple times of the day
to really understand the.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Color absolutely, and within that heritage color palette, do you
have a favorite?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Oh, she got right now.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
If I keep like, I can't help but just dart
over it, like I mean, bright red is speaking to me.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Look at there's just probably the brightest thing on the palette.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I love the jobs out, Yeah, it's lit.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
But the wonder above terracotta pink, that's also very well.
I personally gravitates.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
All the warmer tones more so, so I'm sort of
over there. But even like the Greenhouse.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
It's beautiful in the yes, Greenhouse, No.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
And honestly some of the Oacre's their tone.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
And you've got butter and sand Bowman, it's a very
very rich palette. You do, you can sort of offset
with a few of lighter shade you got soft pink,
soap stone, soft mint. It's interesting too looking back into
heritage palette, So you do you do sort of think
about a lot of the dark, rich reds and deep
(06:21):
in colors, but there is a whole lot of pestles
as well, so you actually can experiment with quite a
few different shades.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Absolutely, and I mean with those very soft tones, you
can easily use them on your walls and use the
deeper boulder colors as your accents, if you're if you're
feeling like you want to go too too hard into
the bold colors.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
It's amazing how powerful bold color can be, even if
you're just using a small amount of it. Honestly, if
I even just painted one a door in bright red
like it would be the most.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Stunning right door you've ever seen.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
So you don't actually have to have a huge space,
You don't have to put it on a large area
for it to hit impact.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
No, exactly, And that's a really wonderful thing.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
We've been talking about doors quite a lot on this
podcast front Doors, especially because it's such a great opportunity
to show off your personality. And of course there's the
beautiful deep reds, all those bright reds in the heritage palette.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
You can just choose what sits your best love it.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
So, Beckett, when you've got a client who perhaps is
unsure how to seek their favorite color from that beautiful
heritage palette, do you have a way of helping them
to sort of draw out the colors that they do love.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
But as I said earlier, it's about taking that palette
home and having a good look at it as I said,
I'm an I gravitate towards Bryar.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Red because I really like strong colors.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
But everyone's different, and our color preferences have a lot
to do with the environments, you know, and things we
enjoy doing. But it bore about backgrounds, like if we
grew up with certain colors and enjoy around certain colors.
There's actually quite a lot in the background behind color preference.
So really it is about just giving yourself time and
(08:00):
have a look at the palette decent look look at
it once a day and sort of seeing what's gravitating
towards you.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Absolutely and I think that's a really good point. You know,
things in memory. It's almost like all of your senses.
You know, I certainly have definite foods that I that
I absolutely love and they remind me of certain things
and smells and so forth. And it's definitely the same
for color. Things that remind you of lovely things in
your past and you connect them. You've made a really
lovely point of saying, take that heritage color palette home
(08:27):
with you, and that applies to any colors that you're
thinking of using.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Take it away with.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
You and just take some time always yeah to yourself,
and then there is always time now if you're looking
at those heritage colors and you've got the bolds, and
then you've got all those beautiful soft ones as well.
On the side, with people starting out, how do you
recommend they start a palette? So we're talking, you know,
four to five colors as a really lovely palette, how
(08:52):
would you recommend they start developing that?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Let's go outside first.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Yeah, again, it depends on sort of what you're look
you're wanting to do, as you said, you said four
to five colors, maybe you could do sort of a
strong front door, sort of a neutral base, and then
you've got your roof color, so there's three easy.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
And then when you're wanting to especially with here, it's
just so many beautiful details.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
So whether you've got brackets or you've just got beautiful
detailing around your windows, the first thing I would do
is have a decent look at your exterior and really
pick out all the pieces you could color. And then
the next thing is you wouldn't want to overload it
with color, so it's all about repetitions. So you would
(09:38):
potentially sort of replicate your roof color down to your door,
or you could do your sort of brack the same
as your windows, so making sure there's repetition in there.
I love color, but the only way to really have
balance is making sure you're using repetition or rusts.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
That could just be a bit to overload.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
It absolutely, especially with heritage, because there are so many
options available. And I think that's a really really good
point to point out, is that it's almost like mirroring,
isn't it. You go, you repeat it through and in
different spaces, it actually just reflects back, as you say,
the front door and the roof.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
It's a really lovely way of doing it.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
But now if we go inside the house, what would
you recommend there?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Again, of icially, repetition is a very big thing. So again,
if you're.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Using quite a variety of color, even if you are
bringing in say if I wanted to do my bright
read front door, if you hit a vase, say in
the kitchen and the same sort of color, you suddenly
would sort of connect those spaces and.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Immediately, Yeah, that's a great way of doing it. It
doesn't always have to be an entire wall.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I mean, there's so many ways you could do it.
You could do like just a pestal scheme.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
So you could look just looking at the soapstone marino butter,
so you could just go right, I'm just going to
keep all the colors muted or just keep them very strong.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
You can make a match.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
A wee bit contrast, but just making sure you have
balance within the space.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
So I'm looking at the lights.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Of sand perhaps as a neutral base, and maybe toffee
is just one feature wall.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
I love Razime toffee. It's well named, that one well named.
You make a really good point there as well as
if you're going to go all soft, that's a really
lovely way to just create a soft, peaceful experience in
the home.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
And I think the other thing then is you can
bring the outside.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
So say you've used those beautiful, bold heritage colors on
the outside of the house, and then you can bring
that into your furniture, so you're as yeah, so you're
repeating it in that way. So it doesn't always have
to be bold walls or anything like that. It can
actually be the you know, the soft furnishings, the couches,
a sofa, the chairs. Timber is wonderful with those colors
(11:44):
as well, which beautifully.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Ellen oh Rich timbers with any of these colors are
just fabulous.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
They're born to be together, aren't they.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (11:53):
They are.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
So you're right.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
It's not just about the color and the paint. It's
about ere other color home and the textures and substrates.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
It's just a whole collection of everything.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Just speaking of timber, especially in heritage homes, there's quite
a lot like your flooring is generally timber.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
What do you recommend people use on that?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
That's some sort of the condition.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
I mean, a lot of people are renovating, like quite
old homes, and sometimes the beautiful timber has been hid
in underlino and some carpet and needs a little bit
of restoration once you've sort of found it. We've got
a product called colour Wood, which is an incredible stain
that you can use on your flooring to really bring
in more richness and color, especially if it has sort
(12:36):
of worn over the years.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
And then we've got a range of varnishes sort of
depending on the need.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
So when people are looking to use varnish or the
color wood, they just need to go in and talk
to their Razine color shop and say, this is my situation,
which one would you recommend.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Oh, absolutely, that's the sort of question we're going to
ask you.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
People really want to use the hardest varnishes that they can, right.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Yeah, I mean and depending on the needs.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Certainly, if you can dance parties things like that, we
want to know so we can make sure that we
have rock solidvantage on your floor so.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
You can enjoy the parties, not reach your floor, essentially
lasting as long as possible.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yes, well that does sound like sage advice, especially if
you're having a dance party. Oh yeah, and why not
with those beautiful heritage colors, they have such a lot
of history in them. I'm guessing that you have customers
that come through and they perhaps don't have a heritage
home at all, but they just want to connect with
that historical value of those colors. How do you recommend
(13:39):
that they use them on perhaps a more modern home.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
You know, there's no reason why you can't next and
match different styles from different centuries and eras within your space,
whether it is through Yeah, color.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Absolutely. If I was to introduce art deco into my
I have an old.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Villa, so it's quite a different contrast, but I can
still you know, appreciate and enjoy the sort of softer pestles,
and even into the decourse so off I had a
bit more of an Art deco BedHead.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
You can mix a match. There's no reason why you can't.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
That's one of the rules of design, isn't it. We
you just choose what you love and find a way
to make it work together. I think that's lovely. And
you know, as you say, with that lovely heritage range,
there are so many softer tones and then so many
of those richer tones. You don't have to feel obliged
to use any one side. You can sort of mix
and match a little bit. That's why Razine has created
these beautiful heritage colors, is because they're respecting the architecture
(14:33):
from that history, from that time. And I think that's
something actually people really do want to do naturally anyway,
Perhaps they're drawn to a certain era, but they live in,
as you say, a beautiful villa or a modern architectural home,
and also the surroundings. You need to take all of
those aspects into account when you're choosing colors.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
You've got a nice view to as far as the beach,
the city, whatever you are looking at is about connecting
with that one that as well well, there's a lot
of color out there that you're looking at, a lot
that you can then bring in or it needs to
relate as well.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
What's that reflecting thing that we were talking about earlier,
you know, reflecting perhaps the sea into your home. Doesn't
mean you have to have waves on the wall, but
you can actually just have you know, the beautiful reflection
of the blue.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
But I mean, hey, if you want waves on.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
It, you can if you want to, and it can
just be the color or it could just be the texture.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
So it doesn't even have to be necessarily a really
obvious I've got a beach, I'm going to use blue it. Yeah,
it's not just necessarily copying color. It's or maybe more
the translucent you know, of the water. You can bring
in a little bit more glass things like that, so
it's not just a direct match to color all the time.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Well, just you touched on the sand aspect and that
razine sand text. That's an amazing textural product that you
can add to your paint. I think that could be
a wonderful way for people who do want to bring
in texture.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Absolutely, I love using sand text.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
It's got Yeah, it's actually a few different grades or santic,
so you can go quite heavy or quite light.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
And yeah, absolutely you can use it on your walls.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
But even if you're just doing say in your affect,
your pot of ours, things like that, just to add
a little bit more texture to your space, really good
way to bring it in.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
It's great to have those options where you don't have
to do a huge space. You can just play with
little items and then they can be your features. I
think that's a great it's a great way to do things.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Absolutely, I think there's a lot of people maybe steer
away from color with that feeling that oh I'm not
maybe necessarily confident enough will want to paint all of
my walls. But it's not necessarily what you need to
do to bring in paint and color. There's so many
different surfaces that you can bring it into to change
your space.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, and as you say, texture as well plays a
big part. Wonderful look, Becka, thank you so much for
spending time with us on If these walls could talk,
I'll let you get back to christ to it.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I hope you're having good weather down there.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
We are actually well, you know, it's worked, so that's
that's great.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Well, enjoy that Sunshine Becker, and we'll look forward to
chatting to you again very soon, and thank you for
joining us on If These Walls could talk. Remember to
send those questions through to editor at Habitat by Razine
dot co dot nz.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
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.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Beg Along, a Razine color consultant.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
For christ Church, Thank you so much for joining us
on If These Walls Could Talk.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
How's your day going?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Oh fabulous, I'm so happy to be here now.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I did want to talk to you about some specific
colors that the Razine range has and those are the
heritage colors.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
So many homeowners with older homes do strive to enhance
the true architectural heritage of their home with a lot
of these older colors, and Razine have an incredible range.
It's called the Razine Heritage Color Palette and it's the
ideal sting point for developing an authentic heritage scheme.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
And when a customer is looking at that, do they
need to stick to particular rules for where each of
those colors can go? Or can they just take their
fancy in and do whatever they wish?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I mean, it is a guideline.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
You can go down the track and recreate exact color schemes,
and we certainly have that option for you. But certainly
in modern times it's quite nice to mix and match
and sort.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Of you know, have you know, influence from the past.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
But there's definitely no reason why you can't change where
those colors are suited. But yeah, as I see, you
can absolutely go exact if you want to as well.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
So you're saying there's no hard and fast rules, but
Razine actually does offer that option if they want to.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Yeah, we've certainly we've got the rules, but we're absolutely
we're always keen to break rules too, So.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Depicding on what you're wanting to do, the home.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
You've got and the brief, we're absolutely keen to help
you whether you're wanting to have an exact color scheme
or one where you sort of just are influenced by
the past.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Oh it sounds gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Now, tell me if you don't actually have a heritage home,
so you have a home from the seventies.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
You don't necessarily have to have a Herota time to
enjoy hero atage colors. I love seeing, especially living rooms
with that sort of seventies theme, pulling in, you know,
the beautiful colors into the dead cord finishes is actually
a very popular look at the moment.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Absolutely, I've definitely seen that recently.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
It's kind of the HARKing back to that seventies era
of disco and it's just a little bit more fun.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I was just having a quick look again before we
caught up today and a lot of them.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah, they're popular again. It just goes full circle.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
It does, doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It's like style, it's like fashion, I mean, homes interiors.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
It does go full circle.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Have you noticed a trend in the timeline, like is
it ten years, twenty, is thirty? Is that you start
to see things coming around again?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yes and not.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
It almost varies a bit depending on almos what the
world is up to. So certainly the last two years
being quite hard, you know, with the pandemic, and people
have more comfort, and it's the sort of similar colors
that people were looking at, you know, post war times,
so they're looking for comfort in their colors. So I
guess you're almost replicating similar feelings from the past, and
(03:18):
that sort of when we see repetition, perhaps in color.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
If you're a novice and you're thinking, I love the
idea of these strong, bold colors that the Heritage range represents.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Where do I start.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Heritage color palette? Honestly, it's the best thing you can do.
Go into your local orrisine shop, pick up the color
palette and if so, just take the color palett home.
We almost put it on your dining table and keep
glancing out. You're going to gravitate towards more colors over others,
depending on sort of your needs and what you're interested in.
(03:50):
Take a minute to really have a good look at
it and see what pops for you, and then you
can sort of start developing around colors that you gravitate towards.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Of course, I mean that seems thing, isn't it, And
exactly what you're saying, you know, take home the palette
and have a look at it, have a look at
it through the fan deck.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And also would you recommend people use test.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Pots, because I mean, I have to say, when I've
painted on the walls, it jumps out as quite a
different feeling because then you can put it in different
areas of light around the house and see how the
paint reacts, especially when you're using those bolder colors.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Oh, absolutely, test pots at the best.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
So once you've sort of looked at your palette and
you have a bit more of a direction, or if
there's your own intrigued and a few colors, test pots
are the best next step.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I would recommend painting quite a large sample, so as
large as possible.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
We do have some big pieces of card available at
rezem to purchase where you can paint on your test spot.
And the benefit of that is you can actually move
it around the house. So if you are wanting to
use that color more than once, you can see it
in different lights, different rooms, and yeah, different environments because
you will find that that color does change depending on
where it's situated.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
So it's also times of the day that people need
to move it around, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Yeah, Absolutely different lighting and it's both natural and artificial.
So if you're looking, yeah, going back to that living room,
if you're going to do a living room, do test
it at night when you do have your lighting, and
in my might need to adjust your lighting to sort
of get that color to work for you. But you've
got to try it at multiple times of the day
to really understand the.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Color absolutely, and within that heritage color palette, do you
have a favorite?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Oh, she got right now.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
If I keep like, I can't help but just dart
over it, like I mean, bright red is speaking to me.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Look at there's just probably the brightest thing on the palette.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I love the jobs out, Yeah, it's lit.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
But the wonder above terracotta pink, that's also very well.
I personally gravitates.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
All the warmer tones more so, so I'm sort of
over there. But even like the Greenhouse.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
It's beautiful in the yes, Greenhouse, No.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
And honestly some of the Oacre's their tone.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
And you've got butter and sand Bowman, it's a very
very rich palette. You do, you can sort of offset
with a few of lighter shade you got soft pink,
soap stone, soft mint. It's interesting too looking back into
heritage palette, So you do you do sort of think
about a lot of the dark, rich reds and deep
(06:21):
in colors, but there is a whole lot of pestles
as well, so you actually can experiment with quite a
few different shades.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Absolutely, and I mean with those very soft tones, you
can easily use them on your walls and use the
deeper boulder colors as your accents, if you're if you're
feeling like you want to go too too hard into
the bold colors.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
It's amazing how powerful bold color can be, even if
you're just using a small amount of it. Honestly, if
I even just painted one a door in bright red
like it would be the most.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Stunning right door you've ever seen.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
So you don't actually have to have a huge space,
You don't have to put it on a large area
for it to hit impact.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
No, exactly, And that's a really wonderful thing.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
We've been talking about doors quite a lot on this
podcast front Doors, especially because it's such a great opportunity
to show off your personality. And of course there's the
beautiful deep reds, all those bright reds in the heritage palette.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
You can just choose what sits your best love it.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
So, Beckett, when you've got a client who perhaps is
unsure how to seek their favorite color from that beautiful
heritage palette, do you have a way of helping them
to sort of draw out the colors that they do love.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
But as I said earlier, it's about taking that palette
home and having a good look at it as I said,
I'm an I gravitate towards Bryar.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Red because I really like strong colors.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
But everyone's different, and our color preferences have a lot
to do with the environments, you know, and things we
enjoy doing. But it bore about backgrounds, like if we
grew up with certain colors and enjoy around certain colors.
There's actually quite a lot in the background behind color preference.
So really it is about just giving yourself time and
(08:00):
have a look at the palette decent look look at
it once a day and sort of seeing what's gravitating
towards you.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Absolutely and I think that's a really good point. You know,
things in memory. It's almost like all of your senses.
You know, I certainly have definite foods that I that
I absolutely love and they remind me of certain things
and smells and so forth. And it's definitely the same
for color. Things that remind you of lovely things in
your past and you connect them. You've made a really
lovely point of saying, take that heritage color palette home
(08:27):
with you, and that applies to any colors that you're
thinking of using.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Take it away with.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
You and just take some time always yeah to yourself,
and then there is always time now if you're looking
at those heritage colors and you've got the bolds, and
then you've got all those beautiful soft ones as well.
On the side, with people starting out, how do you
recommend they start a palette? So we're talking, you know,
four to five colors as a really lovely palette, how
(08:52):
would you recommend they start developing that?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Let's go outside first.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Yeah, again, it depends on sort of what you're look
you're wanting to do, as you said, you said four
to five colors, maybe you could do sort of a
strong front door, sort of a neutral base, and then
you've got your roof color, so there's three easy.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
And then when you're wanting to especially with here, it's
just so many beautiful details.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
So whether you've got brackets or you've just got beautiful
detailing around your windows, the first thing I would do
is have a decent look at your exterior and really
pick out all the pieces you could color. And then
the next thing is you wouldn't want to overload it
with color, so it's all about repetitions. So you would
(09:38):
potentially sort of replicate your roof color down to your door,
or you could do your sort of brack the same
as your windows, so making sure there's repetition in there.
I love color, but the only way to really have
balance is making sure you're using repetition or rusts.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
That could just be a bit to overload.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
It absolutely, especially with heritage, because there are so many
options available. And I think that's a really really good
point to point out, is that it's almost like mirroring,
isn't it. You go, you repeat it through and in
different spaces, it actually just reflects back, as you say,
the front door and the roof.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
It's a really lovely way of doing it.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
But now if we go inside the house, what would
you recommend there?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Again, of icially, repetition is a very big thing. So again,
if you're.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Using quite a variety of color, even if you are
bringing in say if I wanted to do my bright
read front door, if you hit a vase, say in
the kitchen and the same sort of color, you suddenly
would sort of connect those spaces and.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Immediately, Yeah, that's a great way of doing it. It
doesn't always have to be an entire wall.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I mean, there's so many ways you could do it.
You could do like just a pestal scheme.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
So you could look just looking at the soapstone marino butter,
so you could just go right, I'm just going to
keep all the colors muted or just keep them very strong.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
You can make a match.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
A wee bit contrast, but just making sure you have
balance within the space.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
So I'm looking at the lights.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Of sand perhaps as a neutral base, and maybe toffee
is just one feature wall.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
I love Razime toffee. It's well named, that one well named.
You make a really good point there as well as
if you're going to go all soft, that's a really
lovely way to just create a soft, peaceful experience in
the home.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
And I think the other thing then is you can
bring the outside.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
So say you've used those beautiful, bold heritage colors on
the outside of the house, and then you can bring
that into your furniture, so you're as yeah, so you're
repeating it in that way. So it doesn't always have
to be bold walls or anything like that. It can
actually be the you know, the soft furnishings, the couches,
a sofa, the chairs. Timber is wonderful with those colors
(11:44):
as well, which beautifully.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Ellen oh Rich timbers with any of these colors are
just fabulous.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
They're born to be together, aren't they.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (11:53):
They are.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
So you're right.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
It's not just about the color and the paint. It's
about ere other color home and the textures and substrates.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
It's just a whole collection of everything.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Just speaking of timber, especially in heritage homes, there's quite
a lot like your flooring is generally timber.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
What do you recommend people use on that?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
That's some sort of the condition.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
I mean, a lot of people are renovating, like quite
old homes, and sometimes the beautiful timber has been hid
in underlino and some carpet and needs a little bit
of restoration once you've sort of found it. We've got
a product called colour Wood, which is an incredible stain
that you can use on your flooring to really bring
in more richness and color, especially if it has sort
(12:36):
of worn over the years.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
And then we've got a range of varnishes sort of
depending on the need.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
So when people are looking to use varnish or the
color wood, they just need to go in and talk
to their Razine color shop and say, this is my situation,
which one would you recommend.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Oh, absolutely, that's the sort of question we're going to
ask you.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
People really want to use the hardest varnishes that they can, right.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Yeah, I mean and depending on the needs.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Certainly, if you can dance parties things like that, we
want to know so we can make sure that we
have rock solidvantage on your floor so.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
You can enjoy the parties, not reach your floor, essentially
lasting as long as possible.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yes, well that does sound like sage advice, especially if
you're having a dance party. Oh yeah, and why not
with those beautiful heritage colors, they have such a lot
of history in them. I'm guessing that you have customers
that come through and they perhaps don't have a heritage
home at all, but they just want to connect with
that historical value of those colors. How do you recommend
(13:39):
that they use them on perhaps a more modern home.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
You know, there's no reason why you can't next and
match different styles from different centuries and eras within your space,
whether it is through Yeah, color.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Absolutely. If I was to introduce art deco into my
I have an old.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Villa, so it's quite a different contrast, but I can
still you know, appreciate and enjoy the sort of softer pestles,
and even into the decourse so off I had a
bit more of an Art deco BedHead.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
You can mix a match. There's no reason why you can't.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
That's one of the rules of design, isn't it. We
you just choose what you love and find a way
to make it work together. I think that's lovely. And
you know, as you say, with that lovely heritage range,
there are so many softer tones and then so many
of those richer tones. You don't have to feel obliged
to use any one side. You can sort of mix
and match a little bit. That's why Razine has created
these beautiful heritage colors, is because they're respecting the architecture
(14:33):
from that history, from that time. And I think that's
something actually people really do want to do naturally anyway,
Perhaps they're drawn to a certain era, but they live in,
as you say, a beautiful villa or a modern architectural home,
and also the surroundings. You need to take all of
those aspects into account when you're choosing colors.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
You've got a nice view to as far as the beach,
the city, whatever you are looking at is about connecting
with that one that as well well, there's a lot
of color out there that you're looking at, a lot
that you can then bring in or it needs to
relate as well.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
What's that reflecting thing that we were talking about earlier,
you know, reflecting perhaps the sea into your home. Doesn't
mean you have to have waves on the wall, but
you can actually just have you know, the beautiful reflection
of the blue.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
But I mean, hey, if you want waves on.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
It, you can if you want to, and it can
just be the color or it could just be the texture.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
So it doesn't even have to be necessarily a really
obvious I've got a beach, I'm going to use blue it. Yeah,
it's not just necessarily copying color. It's or maybe more
the translucent you know, of the water. You can bring
in a little bit more glass things like that, so
it's not just a direct match to color all the time.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Well, just you touched on the sand aspect and that
razine sand text. That's an amazing textural product that you
can add to your paint. I think that could be
a wonderful way for people who do want to bring
in texture.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Absolutely, I love using sand text.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
It's got Yeah, it's actually a few different grades or santic,
so you can go quite heavy or quite light.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
And yeah, absolutely you can use it on your walls.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
But even if you're just doing say in your affect,
your pot of ours, things like that, just to add
a little bit more texture to your space, really good
way to bring it in.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
It's great to have those options where you don't have
to do a huge space. You can just play with
little items and then they can be your features. I
think that's a great it's a great way to do things.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Absolutely, I think there's a lot of people maybe steer
away from color with that feeling that oh I'm not
maybe necessarily confident enough will want to paint all of
my walls. But it's not necessarily what you need to
do to bring in paint and color. There's so many
different surfaces that you can bring it into to change
your space.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, and as you say, texture as well plays a
big part. Wonderful look, Becka, thank you so much for
spending time with us on If these walls could talk,
I'll let you get back to christ to it.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I hope you're having good weather down there.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
We are actually well, you know, it's worked, so that's
that's great.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Well, enjoy that Sunshine Becker, and we'll look forward to
chatting to you again very soon, and thank you for
joining us on If These Walls could talk. Remember to
send those questions through to editor at Habitat by Razine
dot co dot nz.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
See you next time.
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