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 The palette for this home includes wood flooring, blackbutt decks, cedar ceilings running out to timber soffits and Rosewood timber framed windows & doors 

This façade on a contemporary home comes alive at night with the ability to backlight the polycarbonate façade with colour changing LED lighting

A soft oblong wall recess provides attractive shower storage – the shape of the niche replicates the form of the mirror above the basin

This dynamic home offers sanctuary for adults and upstairs freedom for growing children, while connecting to the landscape at every turn

About to design your new kitchen? Here's the low down on the latest in appliance trends from five leading kitchen designers

Led by an exotic dark marble, with prominent veining, this immersive master ensuite constitutes a quiet, restful parental escape

Even before he knew strictly what an architect was, Pat de Pont wanted to be one – decades on and he is a director at leading city architecture firm SGA 

Part of a bathroom on view to other spaces, concealed-lighting turns this soap niche into a modest design feature

Is it? Even with sliders pulled back, this kitchen is always sheltered by the enveloping architecture of its two-wing, central courtyard home

The times they are a-changing and although some Kiwis still might dream of the quarter-acre, many more are discovering that good things come on small packages of land

A finely finished plank dining table echoes the timber barn doors and far wood butcher's block benchtop in this rural-themed kitchen

For this bathroom, the Icocci tiles were chosen for design impact and their classic patterning – and to appeal to a wide range of buyer tastes