A cafe in Napier - with a rock-climbing area attached for the youth of the town.
A cafe in Napier - with a rock-climbing area attached for the youth of the town.
Summer is on its way and that means hot sunny days, long warm evenings and weekends filled with friends and family, fun and good food.
Colour is so important when it comes to our homes, workplace or our home away from home.
Children generally respond well to colour, especially primarycolours, that are clear and bright. Colour that stimulates the mind, makes a child more reflective or inquisitive. Colour that encourages fun and play whether it be educational or just good old-fashioned fun, that makes your child feel they are welcome.
Colour should be chosen with an individual's personality in mind. If the individual is high energy, they may need lower-energy colours in the bedroom so they get a good night's sleep or vice versa. Colour should be chosen for the appropriate emotion or job at hand wherever possible.
Colour will bring an emotional response for most people. It may bring happy or sad memories, positive or negative.
I have certain colours, fragrances and textures that will instantly take me back to my childhood. I recently worked with a client choosing the interior colours for their newly renovated home. One of the colours I had chosen would have worked very well for this particular situation. I was aware that my client was unsure of the hue but seemed to accept that it would work well.
On the second visit she advised me, she had thought about the colour and, no, she couldn't use it. It turned out that it reminded her of the old farm sheds. They had left the farm some 13 years previously and that was where she wanted it to stay. Each and every one of us will have a different response or emotion to a single colour and, hopefully, it will be a positive one.
If you're struggling with making a change or wanting to do a total revamp, give me a call. Sometimes it is only a couple of colours or textures that need a tweak to make a room or workplace work.
Next year, I will be presenting at the Whanganui Regional Museum's historical talks on early Brunswick. My father, Stuart Littlejohn, grew up in Brunswick and we shifted back to Brunswick in 1975.
If anyone has any photos or stories of early Brunswick they would like to share with me, can you please either email me or give me a ring. I'm booked to speak on the third Monday in February.
I'm looking for old homestead, school and family photos of when Brunswick was first settled through to about the 1950s.
Terry Lobb is an interior/kitchen designer and personal colour and style consultant who takes a holistic approach to living with colour, texture and style - email: terry@terrylobb.com; website: http:// terrylobb.com
