Have a look at Dulux 50GY 45/037 or Colortrend AP5-6 Folkstone, as a possible alternatives. Just note that low Chroma, near neutral colours from the Green-Yellow Hue Family can shift blue in imbalanced light. Less likely when used outside.

We are thinking about adding a fourth bedroom. We have 30 sqm available in the 40% of land regulations. We would also like a bigger kitchen - our ideal includes a scullery with a sink, but would settle for just bigger. This is our house and site plan, do you have any ideas?

Modern, sophisticated and lively were the key deliverables for this city suburb townhouse. The overall scope involved an upgrade to the open plan kitchen, dining and living areas including flooring, wall colour, curtains and kitchen joinery. Modernising the space through new colours and materials was the focus, without having to extensively rearrange the layout. This Mt Victoria Kitchen is now a refreshing, well functioning and lighter space. The well balanced combination of timbers, light marble tones and splashes of colour and pattern, such as the soft blue, hexagonal splashback, bring a delicate energy to the top floor. Before: After: Creating access to storage on both sides of the lounge facing island bench. The cupboards behind the dining table are minimal looking and tucked away to appear as panels, but allow for extra storage behind. The open timber shelves create an area for book storage and display, which improves the view from the lounge/dining direction. This breaks up what otherwise would have been a very deep, unusable storage if it were only to be accessed from the kitchen side. Before: After: Open timber shelves above the island on the end, offering a more accessible storage from the dining side of the room. At the same time this was a great opportunity to add in an extra area for display to further improve the view onlooking the kitchen. Before: After: The new kitchen design included tweaking small areas of cabinetry and maximising the available space, whilst also incorporating design features that didn’t compromise any of these functional gains. Before: After: Even with a sloping ceiling and staying within the existing footprint, the new kitchen looks fresh, the space is more streamlined and is easier to use. Before: With the number of corners in this layout it was important that storage space wasn’t lost in these areas. After: Using speciality corner fittings that rotate and extend to improve the access to the deep corner spaces was a must-have solution here.

My daughter ordered a hobby rock tumbler from a NZ online website. The information on the website stated that the tumbler would be shipped from overseas (USA) direct to her with no warning about suitability or otherwise of the machine for NZ conditions. On opening the box she noted the following: 1. The electric motor was rated at 120volts 60HZ and 0.447 amps. 2. The power lead on the machine had a USA-type three pin plug. 3.The instructions stated that the third pin on the plug was a grounding pin and must be connected to a grounded socket. Obviously the machine needs a step-down transformer to work in NZ. My questions are: 1. Are there 230v to 120v stepdown transformers available in NZ with a US three pin input socket and a NZ three pin earthed plug on the power lead to provide continuous grounding of the machine? 2. What should the minimum current rating of the transformer be to suit the electric motor?