Dulux Colour Awards 2025
Single Residential Exterior Winner
This category recognises the best use of exterior Dulux colour on any building used as a private single residence.
Single Residential Exterior Winner
This category recognises the best use of exterior Dulux colour on any building used as a private single residence.
Single Residential Exterior Winner
SSdH
Dunstan
What the judges said...
"In a post-war housing estate of modest brick homes, this
project surprises and delights with its strikingly understated
but (potentially) trend-setting use of colour. More specifically,
the Dulux Yellow Varnish paint applied to the external pergola
lifts the structure from a purely functional element to a
personality-driven link between the interior and exterior, the
original dwelling and the addition. Powerful in its restraint,
this colour is used as what the architects describe as ‘an
experiential tool, reflecting changing seasons and light …
creating visual warmth and framing the landscape and the
sky’. The impact of this particular yellow was discovered
during early on-site paint tests, which uncovered its impact
upon the colours, spaces and materials of the home, subtly
altering the way they are perceived depending upon the time
of day and weather conditions. Although a bleached yellow, its
freshness is equally relevant as a contemporary stamp and a
heritage nod, driving a unanimous vote for this award winner."Kim Bridgland, Edition Office, judge.
The winning palette
Colour was used to reflect changing seasons and light throughout the day, creating visual warmth and framing the landscape and sky.
Dulux Colour Awards 2025 category winners
Explore how the winners brought to life the innovative use of colour in residential, commercial and public spaces.
Image credits
Lillie Thompson Sarah & Sebastian Armadale | Samuel Hartnett Lava Flow | Sean Fennessey Elonera House | Pier Carthew Dunstan | Peter Bennetts Northern Memorial Park Depot | Anson Smart Melbourne Place | Hamish McIntosh Carol Jerrems: Portraits | Angela Xu and Georgia Reader Landscape of Co-existence | Will Chomchoei Pātaka Kōrero / Fale o Tala, A Storehouse of Narratives in Samoa.
