Trendsideas

This contemporary C-shaped home celebrates concrete, part of the family business, inside and out – dedicated wings cater to parents one side and guests the other, while the children are sent upstairs to bed

With limited planting depth available at front and the need for a new pool and calm, green garden to connect with the architecture at rear, strategic design approaches were employed for this landscape project

This townhouse interior needed a complete change of heart – decluttering (never easy!), repainting in crisper tones and reworking the already generous existing spaces all added up to a fresh, calming character

With outlooks trained on the spectacular scenery, this high-performance, passive-design Queenstown showhome offers clean, crisp architecture balanced with natural-accent, liveable interiors

From bachelor pad to warm, welcoming family home – a reinvented kitchen and bathrooms are at the heart of this interior renovation while heritage elements are celebrated afresh

This kitchen, in an award-winning showhome, shows that black can be bold and bring warmth not weight – natural timber and texture help lighten the vibe and offer fluid connections to the wider interior 

This guest bathroom/powder room achieves a respectful and considered balance between its wider heritage setting and a sense of the contemporary – a nickel-infused shower screen and marble vanity are features

The warmth of oak carries through this walk-in wardrobe's niche storage – lighting strips accentuate the natural wood while contributing to the room's ambient and task lighting

Addressing this home's heritage design, alterations connect with existing gardens while not competing with the existing architecture – hence, floating cedar batten structures were introduced

Part of an outdoor kitchen/lounge space, this island bench is finished in faux marble, and houses a cooktop, sink & custom-made dedicated ice trough 

Little fluffy clouds adorn the covers on the beds in this inviting pale-toned children's bunk room while lighting strips provide ambient and reading lighting

A gentle glide of giant pocket sliders from Altus Window Systems opens up this lounge to the great outdoors – same goes for the matching indoor-outdoor pool room opposite