• Forgoing artwork in favour of framing furniture with a statement mural is a bold choice, but painting the backdrop, wall and floor more subdued hues will create the visual balance you need to pull it off. Tie a playful mural into a space by introducing decorative items of a smaller scale in the same colour palette.

• To recreate our design, sketch it on a piece of paper, then use a ruler and pencil to overlay the sketch with a grid. We painted our wall in Resene SpaceCote Flat in Resene Sea Fog (top) and Resene Contented before using a metre ruler and pencil to translate our grid onto the wall, then adding the shapes as they appeared in each box. For clean lines, use a speed brush to outline the shapes before filling them in with a small roller. You'll find the tools you need at your local Resene ColorShop, along with the colours we used for our mural: (from bottom left) Resene Grenadier, Resene See The Light, Resene Temptation and Resene Petal.

• Make matching placemats by applying your base coats to your MDF boards and leaving them to dry; we used Resene Lumbersider in Resene Contented and Resene See The Light. Next, apply the other Resene paints in a series of random dots before using strips of cardboard to swipe through them to create artistic patterns.

Painted items: Backdrop wall in Resene SpaceCote Flat in Resene Sea Fog (top) and Resene SpaceCote Flat in Resene Contented, with mural shapes in (from bottom left) Resene SpaceCote in Resene Grenadier, Resene See The Light, Resene Temptation and Resene Petal; floor in Resene Walk-on in Resene Contented.  Accessories: Interlude armchairs, woodwrights.co.nz. Rosewater Vintage fabric (used for squab and bolster), marthas.co.nz. Radial Round dining table, cittadesign.com. Lemon candle, and Mandarin candle, by Nonna's Grocer, fatherrabbit.com. Helg carafe, and tumbler, by R&D Lab, tessuti.co.nz. Bowl by Gidon Bing x Città, cittadesign.com. Floral arrangement, POA, isadia.co.nz. Gingham tablecloth by Heather Taylor Home, from everyday-needs.com. Luisa goblet by R&D Lab, tessuti.co.nz.