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Modern kitchen with large windows, white cabinets, open shelves, dining table, and bar stools on a polished concrete floor.

How to decide whether to add an extension or sell your home

What to consider when you’ve outgrown your house and can’t decide to extend or sell There are a number of reasons why you might outgrow your home, for example, you’ve had children, you’re working from home more, or another member of the family has moved in. Whatever the reason, you have a couple of choices: […]
A person in a green floral dress sits on a brown sofa in a stylishly decorated living room.

See how a coastal chic look and feel was created in this Oamaru home

Interior designer Annabel Berry has a pool of talent to draw from at her coastal chic home in Oamaru Meet & greet Annabel (creative director of Design Federation) and Simon Berry (managing director of Whitestone Cheese), Mia, 10, Jackson, nine, and Boe, seven, plus dogs Tessa and Wicket. It’s actually impossible to believe Annabel Berry’s […]
A family of four stands on the porch of a white house with decorative trim and roses.

A well-loved two-bedroom cottage gets a modern makeover

There’s no place like home for this young family, who have breathed glorious new life into their cottage home What began as the chance to transform a dilapidated cottage into a dream home to be sold to another family, soon became so much more for builder Dale Cheesman and his wife Gemma Sampson. To the […]
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Extending this tiny cottage has achieved the ultimate indoor outdoor flow

Extending this tiny cottage has achieved the ultimate indoor outdoor flow

Extending this tiny Waiheke Island cottage over the past 15 years has resulted in enviable indoor-outdoor flow for this botanical stylist and her family Meet and greet  Gemma Yeoman, botanical stylist at Flora n Fauna, Greg Yeoman, director and designer at Stormwater360, and Ivy, 5, plus Cha Cha the cat. Gemma’s Christmas styling tips  Use what […]
A major renovation helped to give this family some much needed space

A major renovation helped to give this family some much needed space

A villa in serious need of TLC got a second chance when the section next door opened up. See how this family used the extra space to create their dream home Meet and greet Andrea Alston, co-owner of Two Smart Cookies, and Paul Alston, CEO of Cavalier Bremworth, Jack, 14, Charlie, 12, and Amelia, 10, […]