Beauty and sustainability combine in this award-winning home on the banks of the Wairarapa stream in Merivale, the pride of a 40-year career for its owners from Home Trends Builders.
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A legacy of breathtaking beauty
Fastidiously built, this home by DCD Ltd is an award-winning example of how a home can be a sustainable masterpiece and an outstanding beauty.
Perfection at the pinnacle
A young family enjoys this elegant, substantial home from Gregg Architectural Builders on one of the highest residential streets in Mt Pleasant, making the most of the views and the environment.
A little bit of bush in the backyard
Tony Milne from Rough and Milne ponders the incredible outdoor paradise we all share and how to incorporate it into our own patch of wilderness.
A location with a lifestyle
Dean McGuigan from Golden Homes considers how the growth of Christchurch’s central city benefits the surrounding areas, making homeownership with a great lifestyle a more achievable goal.
Consistently calm
“A sense of calm” was how judges summed up this New Zealand Institute of Architects award-winning home – a collaborative approach by John Creighton Builders and Rural Workshop Architecture. We couldn’t agree more.
In pursuit of paradise
A simple brief to Barry Connor Design led to the creation of this brave and bold home built by JM Bint Construction. It’s a unique place to relax and marvel in the Mackenzie Country.
A sense of adventure
A love of the environment and the great outdoors inspired this elevated Mt Pleasant home. Borrmeister Architects and Parker Construction can be proud of this max-view, hilltop sensation.
Borrowing from the past
Embedded in the design and construction of this sophisticated Christie Brothers Building home near Wānaka, is the owner’s nostalgia for a beloved family property in Central Otago.
Create the right conditions
Enjoying your outdoor living space in winter can be a challenge. Darren Munden from Mico shows us how to create the perfect heated ambience all year round.
Surprise in the landscape
Tony Milne from Rough and Milne ponders on the element of surprise and how the unexpected can elevate the sensory experience of design.
One way or another
Colour guru and interior stylist Alex Fulton works her magic on the Madras Link Ponte Brass Console table from Ballantynes, against a backdrop of Resene Double Kalgoorie Sands and resene eighth kalgoorie sands.
Individuality by design
Danish design store BoConcept has a reputation for timeless, quality design. Christchurch showroom manager Maika Grant shares some of the customisable options from the dining collection.
Destined to be different
Halfway between Nelson and Motueka sits the Upper Moutere valley, home to a budding family wine and cider business and a newly built healthy home by Stephan Meijer Architects.
Welcome home
This relaxed and stylish family holiday home, by South Architects and Gregg Architectural Builders, embraces the ideas of alpine and escapism in perfect, equal measures.
Designed with you in mind
McKenzie & Willis is the place to go for everything interiors with a complimentary, tailor-made interior design service led by Karen Powers.
Feel inspired
We spoke with Paul Roper-Gee of Canopy Landscape architects after the company’s recent wins at the Registered Master Landscapers annual awards.
Going dutch
This exquisite South African home references traditional Cape Dutch architecture and creates a contemporary new order with a vineyard and a gin garden.
Sunlit sanctuary
In the middle of a 10-acre plot in the Canterbury idyll of Eyreton, sits this award-winning triumph of timber, sympathetically renovated by Urbane Construction.
An ode to autumn
As summer passes to autumn, our resident landscape architect, Tony Milne from Rough and Milne, celebrates the hues and the bounty of this golden season.