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Innovative products to make your home pop
These innovative new products are sure to make your home reno pop
Bronzed body
Bronze and bio-fuel? Double tick! The new Brooklyn by
Living Flame gives you the beauty of an open fire without the smoke and hassle of a traditional fireplace. With no venting or chimney required, and an environmentally safe clean-burning bio-fuel, there’s freedom to place it in a range of spaces, even apartments. And coming in at under $5000 it's affordable too. See more at livingflame.co.nz.
Tile high club
Statement tiles are the ideal way to create a focal point in utility rooms like the bathroom. This gorgeous new tile from Tile Space features bold shapes and subtle colour to create a sigh-inducing surface. Ladakhi Grafito tiles, $85 per square metre, from Tile Space. tilespace.co.nz
LIGHT IT UP
Lighting can be the perfect finishing touch to a reno, but the right light is often hard to find! Whether you’re after a retro, industrial, antique or modern look, the Mercator Lighting range has your needs covered. We love the Bronte wall light in Max Brass, $35.98, from selected Mitre 10 MEGA stores. Mitre10.co.nz
In sink
The clever people at InSinkErator have cottoned on to the fact that we like to coordinate colours in the kitchen, so they’ve developed switches, flanges and stoppers for their products in colours to match your benchtops. Find out more at Insinkerator.co.nz or phone 0800 200 520.
UP THE WALL
If your outdoor area is looking unloved because you’ve spent all your money renovating the house, this DIY vertical garden from Bunnings will help to brighten any bare wall. Fill the punnets with your choice of herbs, flowers or plants and watch the wall come to life, or mount several units together to create a statement wall. White’s Garden Up Wall system, $69, from Bunnings.
Colour all around
Keen to repaint your home but scared of getting it wrong? Resene ColourVision is a clever new virtual reality experience that allows you to recolour walls in a 360-degree room using a computer or VR headset. Unlike most programmes that work in 2D, Resene ColourVision enables you to look up, down and around while moving from room to room repainting the walls and ceilings, and even staining the floors. Resene ColourVision headsets are available at selected Resene stores, visit
resene.co.nz/colourvision for more information.