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This home takes its design cues from the surrounding coastal environment. Elements include an earthy palette, softly rounded cladding curves and a fun glass-sided pool

The seasons are changing – but why wait until you’re cold before getting your heating options sorted – your outdoors included? Landscape designer and creative director of Landart Landscapes ...

With an open layout and traditional cabinetry, this kitchen connects well with its surroundings in a 1900s-designed home. A custom rangehood and finely worked basketweave wood island benchtop are two of many stand-o...

Increasingly, the bathroom is the most considered room in the home and getting the lighting just right is part of this. Here we offer some tips to ensure your bathroom – and you – are seen in the best possibl...

This ensuite achieves a serene air despite its strong material palette. Touches like rounded edged elements play a part. The spa-like ambience is underpinned by adroit functionality

We often expect call centre helpers to be based in faraway places. But what if your on-line expert is chatting from a relaxed beach setting? This beach-themed call centre is designed to bring out the best in its emp...

Located at the heart of the home, this black and white entertainer’s kitchen complements its surroundings while creating a strong presence of its own

The concrete-look epoxy flooring in this house neatly ties together the kitchen and living areas. It also elevates the modern architectural feel

The brief for this powder room was simple. It had to be beautiful and functional. Together with natural stone surfaces, a Gio Ponti vanity mirror and shimmering Baresque wallpaper, it achieves this and so much more. 

During this renovation, the designers decided to retain most of the charming Victorian cottage and add modern functionality

The Landmark Homes Waikato showhome in rural Te Kowhai makes a strong impression as soon as you step through the main entrance. And that was exactly the intention when this large country home was dreamed up

Windows that frame magnificent trees, extended canopy-like, cantilevered eaves, and fully pocketing glass exterior walls trained on wooded surrounds – this home lets you feel like you're in the great outdoors