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By following the natural contours of the site, the architects maximised the plan, pulled the building down into the site, and stepped the massing to follow the topography

Casa Italiana is a leading light for New Zealand home design, offering a staggering array of flooring and floor and wall tiles, including the latest and best Italian brands

Reached by a long and winding access road, this home reinterprets local architectural and is oriented to give the homeowners their best life

From colour scheme to light fittings, planning your new home’s interior design can be complex. Find out how Landmark simplified the process – with outstanding results – for Auckland couple John and Ali Hackett

This sustainable home responds to its mature owners' needs for an aging-in-place design that connects with nature in reminiscence of their previous abode

With differing profiles on different street exposures and separable upstairs and down stairs, this home also stretches out to its outlooks 

Part of a bach with a central courtyard and relaxed indoor-outdoor flow, this kitchen connects with the open living spaces and the verdant outdoors

The designers made the most of an ideal positioning to create this open, layered kitchen complete with sliding splashback that reveals scullery behind

With sleek finishing and a refined cabinetry selection, Arclinea’s award winning Convivium forms a top of the range, highly durable & luxurious space 

Aren't humans funny? First we want the once-tucked-away kitchen to come out and join the living spaces, then we employ clever ways to conceal it all over again

Refined yet beachy, this expansive kitchen offers an ideal social hub with plenty of room to move and elegant connections to adjacent areas 

One key move can influence a bathroom design and its ambience – here it was locating the vanity basin and mirror in front of the windows

When an ensuite is part of a large bedroom suite, scale matters – focussing on a sense of increased intimacy, as with this spacious yet personal-feel ensuite

Check out the gallery of 2022 TIDA Australia Bathrooms winners, runners-up and highly commended entries

Congratulations to Kister Architects, winner of the 2022 TIDA Australia Powder Room of the Year – a powder room that perfectly integrates into the home's interior design scheme

Congratulations to Rieck Building Design, winner of the 2022 TIDA Australia Designer Bathroom of the Year with a renovated ensuite that's inviting, relaxed and highly functional

Congratulations to Ultraspace, winner of the 2022 TIDA Australia Designer Suite of the Year – a suite with an exceptionally high level of design and detailing

Congratulations to SAAJ Design, winner of the 2022 TIDA Australia Architect Suite of the Year – open plan design that still retains a sense of privacy when needed

Check out all the top bathrooms in the Trends International Design Awards for Bathrooms for New Zealand and Australia

See all the award winners in 2022 TIDA New Zealand Bathrooms – winners, runners-up and highly commended entries

Congratulations to Bonham Architecture & Interiors, winner of the TIDA New Zealand Designer Suite of the Year. See more of this suite's sophisticated design

Congratulations to Nicola Ross design, winner of the TIDA New Zealand Powder Room of the Year – complete with colourful mural

A quiet palette, sense of rhythm and repeat, floating cabinetry and playful mirror all come together to give this bathroom a presence all of its own

When the Thames is your penthouse outlook, the interiors have to vie for attention – here, tactile materials, crafted furniture and artworks all play a part

Long recognised as warm and natural, wool and its benefits are now looked at with fresh eyes amongst millennial consumers, says a nation-wide Bremworth study  

A tired London Georgian Villa and corresponding Mews House are reinvented celebrate the past and also modern living – the two interiors, divided by garden, share similar yet subtly differing sensibilities

This interior combines Oriental culture and functional considerations to create elegant spaces that also make the most of the building's structure

The setting is perfect, the existing in-ground pool nestles into its sandy location – but the pool itself is tired – enter Pool Co for an award-winning make over

Inspired by the sleek, low-lying modernist outdoor living spaces of American West-Coast Modernism, this space offers an all-weather invitation to linger 

This Silver-winning rectangular pool offers a welcoming backyard oasis for the owners and has more safety features than meet the eye 

A heritage renovation repurposes the interior while enhancing the original cottage's character – an in-keeping double height rear extension provides modern living

This contemporary, light bringing ageing-in-place renovation picks up on a curved feature in the original heritage home and runs with it

Poor access, impeded flow and under-considered connections to the outdoor had held this home back from delivering a great lifestyle – now, all that has changed