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What your birth month says about your interior design style

Your birth month can influence your interior design style, helping you curate your home
Byron Bay Babe collage

Are you all about the clean girl aesthetic or more committed to the coastal grandmother vibe? Depending on the month you were born, your interior style could give a glimpse into your interior design style, influencing your home’s aesthetic and how you curate your favourite homewares.

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From minimalist designs to nostalgia-infused spaces, each month brings its own set of characteristics that align with specific interior design style trends. Get ready to see your living space in a new light.

Tomato Girl Cool Collage

January – Tomato Girl Cool

Mantra: Spending summer in Italy would fix 99 percent of your problems. Bruschetta and a glass of prosecco would probably fix the other one percent (or create some interesting new ones, depending on how many glasses).
Decorate like everything is plentiful and nothing is precious. Use your finest china for dollops of cream and fresh berries, and your linen sheets for tablecloths.
Colour match: Energising red.
Resene tip: Reinvent tired furniture such as a table by painting it in Resene Lustacryl (ideal for furniture) in Resene Amped for drama.

Resene Arriba, Resene Rudolph and Resene Amped
Resene colours from left to right: Resene Arriba, Resene Rudolph, Resene Amped
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Wellness Guru Collage

February – Wellness Guru

Mantra: Breathe in, breathe out. If that doesn’t work, a $19 smoothie and some anti-ageing cream will.
Decorate like you’re going on a silent meditation retreat. Mindful minimalism is the goal, with the occasional piece of statement art for the shock factor.
Don’t forget to start going to early morning yoga classes. That way you can brag to everyone that you’ve been up since 5am #blessed.

Biophilic Babe collage

March – Biophilic Babe

Mantra: Water the plants, don’t text your ex.
Decorate like you’re growing a jungle in your living room. Pot plants galore, not to mention the monstera you spent far too much money on during lockdown.
Colour match: Lovely, peaceful green.
Resene tip: Try colour drenching by extending your Resene Transcend paint all the way up the wall and onto the ceiling for continuity and a cocooning feeling.

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Resene Smashed Avocado, Resene Transcend, Resene Rolling Hills
Resene colours from left to right: Resene Smashed Avocado, Resene Transcend, Resene Rolling Hills
Dowager Decorator collage

April – Dowager Decorator

Mantra: If ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Well, even if it is, who cares when your furniture once belonged to Louis XIV.
Decorate like your husband’s mother. Because that’s who chose the four-poster bed and swag and tail curtains.
Don’t forget to go for long garden walks. Stop to admire the roses and wonder aloud which flower they would name after you.

Coquette collage
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May – Coquette

Mantra: Marie Antoinette said it best: “Let them eat cake.” Then the eclairs, and finally some macarons for good measure.
Decorate like pink paint is cheaper than water. Lavish your furniture in lots of ribbons, with plenty of flowers and frills for good measure.
Colour match: Pink. It’s the most feminine of colours.
Resene tip: Temper a shade like Resene Awaken with Resene Dark Chocolate and carry them across trims and architectural elements to give a contemporary look to traditional details.

Resene Awaken, Resene Temptation, Resene Coconut Ice
Resene colours from left to right: Resene Awaken, Resene Temptation, Resene Coconut Ice
French Girl Chic collage

June – French Girl Chic

Mantra: When former Vogue editor Edna Woolman Chase said, “Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess,” she must have had a femme Parisienne in mind.
Decorate like you mixed an elderly relative’s cast-offs with fine linen sheets and the odd ultra-modern accessory.
Don’t forget to pick up your croissant from the boulangerie on your scooter. Breton stripes are mandatory, and if you haven’t already, chop a blunt fringe.

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Clean Girl Interiors collage

July – Clean Girl Interiors

Mantra: The physicists are wrong – white is a colour and the only one that matters. It is the perfect backdrop to live your best life by.
Decorate like it looks like you’re moving out of your all-white apartment. You’re not, but your minimalist ideals mean you don’t need stuff to be validated. Besides, space is the ultimate luxury.
Colour match: It has to be Scandi white.
Resene tip: When painting a wall white or off-white, do it when the wall is in shade as the sun’s glare will make it harder to see where you have painted.

Resene Meringue, Resene Creme De La Creme, Resene White Noise
Resene colours from left to right: Resene Meringue, Resene Creme De La Creme, Resene White Noise
NYC It-Girl collage
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August – NYC It-Girl

Mantra: Work hard, play hard, befriend the club bouncers.
Decorate like you live in a shoebox and you’re never home anyway. The oven is for storing shoes and your shoe rack is for storing magazines.
Don’t forget to dine out with your gal pals. Share secrets over Cosmopolitans and decadent desserts (no Mr Bigs allowed).

Hollywood Diva collage

September – Hollywood Diva

Mantra: I want to be alone, surrounded by my luxurious furniture.
Decorate like your interior designer is LA’s Kelly Wearstler. That means a lot of marble, brass, designer sofas and magnificent lighting.
Colour match: Gold will serve drama to a room any day.
Resene tip: Consider painting a design of your choosing in Resene FX Metallic paint tinted to Resene Copper Fire. It looks amazing on top of the deep blue of Resene Ocean Waves.

Resene Liquid Gold, Resene Copper Fire, Resene See The Light
Resene colours from left to right: Resene Liquid Gold, Resene Copper Fire, Resene See The Light
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Brit Indie Chick collage

October – Brit Indie Chick

Mantra: A smoky eye is like fine wine, it’s always better the next day.
Decorate like artful clutter is your middle name. You’ve rolled out of bed and managed to buy a vintage coffee table, kilim rug and record player on the way out.
Don’t forget your Hunter boots. The middle of spring is no stranger to a shower, and you can pretend that you’re off to Glastonbury every time you march through a puddle.

Byron Bay Babe collage

November – Byron Bay Babe

Mantra: Yoga. Buy cane furniture. Repeat.
Decorate like you’ve just come back from Bali with a load of rattan and flowy white curtains.
Colour match: Fawn. It can be anything you want from cool and beachy to luxurious.
Resene tip: You don’t have to choose just one. Layer up darker and lighter versions of your favourite fawn colours. Freshen up old vases with a Resene testpot to bring them into the look.

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Resene Open Sesame, Resene Fluffy Duck, Resene Athena
Resene colours from left to right: Resene Open Sesame, Resene Fluffy Duck, Resene Athena
Coastal Gran collage

December – Coastal Gran

Mantra: Practise being bicoastal, then you can enjoy the freedom of the West Coast beach houses and the crisp blue and white stripes of homes in the Hamptons.
Decorate like you’re the star of your own Nancy Meyers movie. Washed wood furniture, a large kitchen garden, touches of blue, and there you are about to enter the room in white wide-legged pants and a bucket hat. Action.
Don’t forget to wear a lot of linen. It’s basically your uniform. You tell people it’s because of Martha – not just because it’s so comfy.

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