Once the home of multiple steam mills, 75 Queen Street has long since been home to a heritage Edwardian Baroque building. The current building was designed by architect W.A. Holman and was used as a warehouse for H.M. Smeeton, a merchant selling a range of imported tea, coffee, foodstuffs and medicines.

The building façade includes highly decorative architectural features, celebrated in a recent repaint by highlighting these elements through the use of colour.

The main exterior wall areas are finished in Resene AquaShield tinted to Resene Double Wheatfield (greened neutral). Resene AquaShield is an attractive flat mineral effect finish, a classic aged look, particularly suited to heritage, art deco, Sante Fe and Mediterranean style homes and buildings, with excellent self cleaning properties.

The sympathetic colour and sheen combination is accented with Resene Ironsand (brown grey) and Resene Dark Buff (ginger brown) on selected decorative feature elements in contrasting sheen levels of gloss Resene Enamacryl waterborne enamel on windows and Resene Lumbersider waterborne low sheen. This careful material selection allows the architecture to speak for itself while providing much needed ongoing protection from the elements to ensure this heritage building clocks up many more years of service.

Painting Contractor: Unique Painting Group Limited
Property/Project Manager: Murchison Group
Resene: Ben Solly, Branch Manager Auckland North/West; Brenda Ngatai, Colour Consultant
From the Resene News – issue 3/2013