Colour me beautiful

Your house is the most important feature in your garden — it sets the tone for everything around it. Choosing the right exterior paint colours is a powerful way to highlight its character and reflect your style.

 

Now Wattyl helps you bring that natural beauty to your home. Taking cues from your garden’s colours, Wattyl Solagard Ready-To-Go range, inspired by popular COLORBOND® steel colours, offers you the choice of soft, fresh tones that echo leafy greens, woody and sandy hues and a range of superb greys with a bold contrast of deeper shades inspired by earth, trees and evening. The range makes it easy to create a look that balances both the love of your garden and the inspiration for your home.

Modern 

When you want your home to suggest a modern style but feel you need just a touch of extra warmth, check those areas in your garden that are organised with pathways and borders but have warm colours overlapping, suggesting a congenial welcome. And take your cues from striking feature walls or garden ‘screens’ that, present graphic relationships for you to see how colours come excitingly together.

COLOURS

From the Wattyl pre-tinted range, look for white, the taupes greys and, greens. And note, bold contrasts give a great modern message.

• PAPERBARK®

• WOODLAND GREY®

• MANOR RED®

• DEEP OCEAN®

Design tips for modern gardens

Think sculptural foilage, strong but restricted colour palettes and low-maintenance plants arranged in considered beds. Gravel paths, natural accents and architectural features add structure and definition.

 

Traditional

 

Timeless elegance meets pure charm when traditional garden elements come together. Hedges and neat flower beds blend with lush, informal clusters such as roses, lavender and small flowering companions everywhere. Delightfully layered, enjoy blending perennials, herbs and climbers in a slightly unruly harmony that feels celebratory and timeless. Stone paths make their way to your ever-welcoming front door, inviting lingering moments along the way.

 

COLOURS

Using Wattyl’s curated palette, choose from white, greys, sandy tones and greens. Or choose a scheme of warm deep red as an accent with woody shades.

• DOVER WHITE™

• PALE EUCALYPT®

• COTTAGE GREEN®

• BASALT®

Design tips for a classic garden

Delve into your colour chart choosing inspiration from your garden’s colours to make your home extra special.

Coastal

 

Coastal gardens enjoy the compliment of feeling,or indeed being, seaside. To take advantage of that pleasure, keep your palette soft—silvers, sandy tones, greens, greys, blues also to frame ocean or sky views where possible. Use accompanying natural materials such as weathered and driftwood-like timber, and stone if you can. Incorporate open spaces, easy natives and grasses and relaxed plantings to mirror the breezy sea lifestyle. Where you can, gravel and stony paths and light, relaxing furniture complete the look.

COLOURS

Be inspired by Wattyl’s white, pale and deep greys, deep blue, sandy beiges and driftwood tones. Choose a bold accent colour if you love contrast.

• DOVER WHITE™

• SOUTHERLY®

• BLUEGUM®

• MONUMENT®

Design tips for a coastal garden

Embrace the simplicity and flow of seaside in a casual, natural design. Use loose lines, random layered planting and zones of open space to continue the landscape – a water feature calmly echoes the sound of the sea.

Wattyl Solagard Ready-To-Go range, available in pre-tinted COLORBOND® steel colours is exclusively in Bunnings.

A wall of paint chips is beautiful to look at and helps enormously when you are trying to narrow down a palette of exterior paint colours to boost your home’s street appeal. The new curated collection of Wattyl Solagard exterior paints includes a range of colours pre-tinted and Ready-to-Go to match the most well known and loved COLORBOND® steel colours. This simplified range and expert advice, exclusive to Bunnings stores, makes choosing the best exterior paint colours for your home a much easier process, helping you to turn your design vision into reality. You’ll love the process and guaranteed you’ll be delighted with your Wattyl colour decisions making your home the lead star in your garden.

Contemporary 

 

Your contemporary garden appears relaxed but designed with balance, structure and flow in mind. Plantings are thoughtfully layered and sculptural with striking focal points adding drama. Every detail — from paving to pots to stones — is considered, creating a refined space that feels fashionably connected to the home. Water features are perfect additions.

COLOURS

Choose Wattyl’s range of sandy shades, greys and deep tones. For a different scheme go greens and deep blue. Strong contrast is perfect.

• SURFMIST®

• NIGHT SKY®

• IRONSTONE®

Tips for a designer garden

Use materials that inspire your home’s palette. Then include lighting, simple outdoor furniture and sculptural items for an ordered finish that feels intentionally choosen to beautifully balance your home and garden.