Waratah is the darkest colour in the Auburn Ridge range: a deep charcoal-grey carrying a fleck that keeps it from reading as a solid block of dark. That fleck matters more here than anywhere else in the palette, because it...

Tea Tree is a light warm greige-taupe with a faint mauve lean: an unusual and rather sophisticated colour that sits a half-step deeper than Gumnut, the palest in the Auburn Ridge range. The mauve is subtle, but it is what...

Lilly Pilly is a mid-dark warm grey-brown: a true mushroom, and the most forgiving colour in the Auburn Ridge range short of Waratah. It has enough brown in it to feel warm and enough grey to stay neutral, which is...

Gumnut is the palest colour in the Auburn Ridge range: a warm oatmeal-cream with a soft pink-beige cast that stops it ever feeling stark. In a bright room it lifts everything around it, and because the yarn is multi-toned rather...

Banksia is a mid cool grey shot through with a brown fleck: the only grey in the Auburn Ridge range, and the colour to reach for when the rest of the room is cool. The brown in the fleck is...

Waverley is the warm sand-gold wheat of the Riverside Reserve palette, and depth flatters it more than almost any other colour in the range. At 17.0mm the longer yarn traps light between the tufts and the gold note becomes richer...

Sea Forth is the palest colour Riverside Reserve is made in, a near-white warm cream, and the 17.0mm pile gives it a softness the shorter build cannot match. At this depth the colour reads slightly deeper and creamier, because the...

Dark grey-green, deep and quiet, Rosebery is the colour that makes the most of a 17.0mm pile. At this depth a dark yarn reads almost like velvet, with the tips catching light and the base disappearing into shadow, so it...

Pale, cool and blue-leaning, Oatley is the most neutral grey in Riverside Reserve, and in this deeper build it loses the slightly hard edge it can have in a shorter pile. The 17.0mm yarn gives it a soft, powdery quality...

Warm sage with an olive-grey base, Mosman is the colour in Riverside Reserve for people who have had enough of grey but do not want brown. The deep pile changes how it behaves: at 17.0mm the shadow between the tufts...

Mona Vale is the darkest colour Riverside Reserve is made in: a very deep charcoal with a green cast that keeps it from reading as a hard, dead black. Laid at 17.0mm it becomes something quite dramatic: the long pile...

In Riverside Reserve, Double Bay is a mid cool grey, cleaner and less green than the Parkview Gardens colour of the same name, and the deep pile gives it a soft, slightly smoky quality rather than a hard architectural one....

Castle Cove here is a pale cool grey-green with a fleck through the yarn, softer and less definite than the same name in the shorter Parkview Gardens build, because a 17.0mm pile diffuses light and takes some of the crispness...

Rich golden-caramel brown, Bronte is the warmest and most saturated colour Riverside Reserve is made in, and the deep pile is what makes it work. At 17.0mm the yarn catches light at the tips and holds shadow at the base,...

Auburn in Riverside Reserve is a pale warm greige-cream: the shade that lives between a cream and a soft grey, and the one most people land on when Sea Forth feels a touch too white and Waverley too golden. The...

Of the pale colours in Parkview Gardens, Waverley is the most golden: a warm sand-gold wheat that carries a genuine yellow note rather than the barely-there warmth of Auburn. In a bedroom with afternoon sun it glows, and it is...

Sea Forth is the lightest colour Belgotex make in Parkview Gardens: a near-white cream that reads warm rather than cold, so it lifts a room without the clinical edge a true white carpet brings. It is at its best in...

Rosebery is a dark grey-green: a deep sage-charcoal that stops just short of black and keeps a clear botanical undertone. It is the colour for rooms you want to feel enclosed and quiet: a media room, a study, a basement...

Oatley is the most straightforwardly grey colour at the pale end of Parkview Gardens: a light-mid blue-grey with none of the green lean of Castle Cove and none of the warmth of Auburn. That neutrality is the point. It is...

Mosman is a mid warm sage: an olive-grey that keeps just enough green to feel like a colour and just enough grey to stay liveable across a whole floor. It is the middle ground people usually want when they say...

The darkest colour in Parkview Gardens, Mona Vale is a very deep charcoal carrying a blue-green cast that keeps it from turning into a dead, flat black. In daylight you see the cool undertone; under lamps it simply reads as...

Sitting squarely in the middle of the Parkview Gardens palette, Double Bay is a mid cool grey-green, deep enough to anchor a room, muted enough that it still behaves like a neutral. It is the colour most often chosen for...

A light cool grey with a clear green cast running through it, Castle Cove is the colour to reach for when a scheme is built on cool whites, black tapware and grey-toned oak. It sits with those without sliding mauve...

Bronte is the brown in Parkview Gardens: a mid warm golden-brown caramel with enough gold in it to stay lively rather than reading as flat chocolate. It is a deliberately warm, traditional choice: it suits federation and Californian bungalow interiors,...