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The goal is a healthy-lifestyle family pool – and to help with that the NZ Pool Industry Association offers free information downloads to get you better informed

This landscape design optimises the home's indoor-outdoor flow and includes an outdoor fireplace and teppanyaki along with a modern garden

But that's all – this classic fireplace was kept on board for its unashamed good looks – its fossil fuel burning duties left in the past 

For this renovation, the fineness of the repetitive steel screen and balustrade is contrasted by the solidity of the mass board-formed concrete planters

This Progetto rainhead shower has things well covered with a span that provides full coverage without much movement from the user

A house of angles can make it tricky to line up floor boards. The answer? Add a distracting element where the board orientation changes, as seen here

Anything taking pride of place on the open, under-lit shelving gracing the front of this kitchen island is prominently on display to the wider space

This living/dining/kitchen features a wall of windows stretching right up to the gabled roof line – a deep roof overhang mitigates solar gain

Humble in terms of allotted space only, these powder rooms offer surprise and theatre as well as a great place to check that tie or eyeliner 

Check out all the top kitchens in the Trends International Design Awards for Kitchens in New Zealand and Australia

Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architects SANAA, the Sydney Modern Project is the city's most significant cultural development since the Sydney Opera House 

This sustainably minded family home on a north-south oriented site is designed to allow the northern sun to penetrate into all the living spaces