A journey through the Canterbury high country is a series of scenic moments that feel otherworldly. Majestic mountains rise around you, with surfaces of sun-parched…
At heart, architects always want to build new. Particularly when it comes to their own homes, their heads are brimming with ideas they’re itching…
Stepping inside the 1929 villa where designer Kristina Dam, her musician husband Ketil Duckert and their children Vera (12) and Nord (7) have lived…
A mandarin and kiwifruit orchard in Te Puna, a rural enclave northwest of Tauranga, may have delivered the good life a couple whose children have…
High in the hills of the rural-Auckland suburb of Waimauku, a cedar-clad house stands proudly on its four-acre site. Its trio of gabled, barn-like…
There was a time when the residents of this house felt as if they lived on top of each other. Now Mum, Dad and…
Ginamarie Riley has a penchant for drawing out the essence of a home. With six renovations under her belt, the Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland owner of…
Although a causal link between a ’90s Smashing Pumpkins concert and the award-winning renovation of this heritage home can’t definitively be made, neither can…
Sue Waymouth was working in the front garden of the Herne Bay, Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland villa she shares with her husband Ben and their here-again,…
A lunch invitation to Geoff and Rose Creighton’s beach house is a hot ticket, well worth the drive out to Piha. Fishmonger Geoff has…