Colour Harmony: Painting Your Home to Match Your Garden

Your home is the centrepiece of your landscape. The right paint colours can beautifully highlight its character and Colour reflect your style, inspired by its harmony with the garden.



Wattyl helps you balance the love of your garden and inspiration for your home. Taking cues from your garden’s colours, Wattyl Solagard Ready To Go range, following popular COLORBOND® steel colours, gives you all the choice you need. 





WATTYL WHITEBLUE®  GUM® MONUMENT®



Modern Cottage 

A cottage-style home feels effortlessly welcoming and when complimented with Wattyl’s grey range it always highlights its character and charm. This range harmonises with natural surroundings, accentuating textures, architectural details and garden greenery, creating a relaxed, timeless atmosphere full of flair and inviting appeal. There’s much to love.

 

Tips for a cottage green garden

Choose plants that are relaxed and natural – plant them as formally or as loose as you like. Gentle water features add to the welcome. And create restful outdoor areas, and share their colours with your home.









 

Wattyl’s wide range of greys from light to very dark creates strong artistry for cottage and country and seaside styles while staying subtle but very sophisticated. 



PALE EUCALYPT® DUNE® DOVER WHITE®









Modern Aussie 

Modern home designs with Australian native garden colours is a natural match. Eucalypt greens, greys and browns complement architectural lines, whether you would want calm, tonal harmony or bold, confident contrasts. But be assured, Nature acts as a strong colour guide, giving your home depth, creativity and a uniquely Australian feel.



Design tips for a native garden

Bring your garden alive with vibrant greens, earthy browns and bursts of colour. Mix contrasting foliage shapes and tones, layer soft and bold hues, and use flowering natives to create a dynamic palette that’s easy to care for once established. 









 

Take your colour cue from Wattyl’s whole palette, as each colourin the range is represented in any Australian native garden - whatever you choose will reflect the bush beauty.



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

A wall of paint chips is beautiful to look at but can be daunting when you are trying to narrow down a palette of exterior paint colours to boost your home’s street appeal. Wattyl Solagard exterior paints includes a range of 20 popular colours pre-tinted and Ready to Go to match the most well known and loved COLORBOND® steel colours. This simplified range and expertadvice, 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.



 

To continue your colour inspiration journey, click here to read our Colour Me Beautiful article on exterior paint palettes.

 

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Author: Julia Zaetta | Wattyl

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