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Check out the Winners, Runners-up and Finalists 2025 TIDA International Home of the Year awards – New Homes and Renovations from around the globe

Resene | Altus – 2026 TIDA New Zealand Associate Sponsors

'All the world's a stage', wrote Shakespeare and this interior design takes heed with colour, form and materiality emerging as distinct characters with black ceiling above

These three-storey townhouses, all served with lifts, are designed for the upmarket marketplace – merging clean lines outside with layered texture and materiality inside, for an air of enduring refinement

When your powder room is on show from your living spaces, good looks, connections and quietness are all important – this powder room addressed all three elements in style

Rooms are shuffled, spaces reallocated and a lift extended to set the scene for an interior that brings space and light while marrying to the industrial tone of its penthouse setting

Rich, dark timber cabinetry meets stone benchtop in this upmarket yet pared back penthouse kitchen – high end appliances complete the sophisticated picture

Thoughtful plant selection, mass planting and material harmony are essential when designing with New Zealand natives – this landscape project is both ecologically grounded and architecturally refined

Here, the renovating architect's intent was to celebrate the juxtaposition between the home's contemporary, clean-lined architectural forms and the mountainside's powerful organic presence 

Situated by a meandering river, this nature-infused outdoor entertaining pavilion features a Tasmanian oak ceiling, schist feature wall and marble island

For this two-tone kitchen, complementary black Laminex Burnished Wood cabinetry and Dulux Vivid White polyurethane cabinets are grounded by warm wood flooring

Part of the brief for this interior makeover was to maximise space – an expandable wood dining table ideally fitted the less-can-be-more agenda