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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This backyard has a lot going on – there's even a basketball court/driveway made possible by avoiding a space hungry turning circle with the introduction of a residential car turntable

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

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