Holiday Home

A full-time home with a holiday feel, this renovated bach is as bright and merry as a sunny day at the beach

A sustainable, stylish Lake Taupō house is the perfect escape for two families living side by side

From serene bush retreats to idyllic beachfront properties, these are the best New Zealand Airbnb homes to enhance your next getaway. Whiritoa beach, Coromandel. Photo: Mark Meredith. When you’re yearning for a refreshing escape, the right accommodation can make all the difference. An abode with a beautiful view or an architecturally designed place to rest […]

Part-time Waiheke Islanders created the perfect family home away from home meet & greet Susannah (interior designer at Island Interiors) and Paul Matheson (financial controller), River, 12, Sunday, eight, Violet, six, and Domino the dog. the property A ’50s bach on Waiheke Island that has been variously added onto over the years. It doesn’t take […]

Light and balance work with nature and a slow lifestyle at this idyllic holiday house in Denmark meet & greet Rikke Moldrup Rasmussen (Slow fashion and home textile company owner), Flemming Moldrup (writer and TV presenter), his daughter Yoko, 14, and her son Gilbert, 25, and daughter Molly, 18. the property Three-bedroom ’50s holiday cottage, […]

Eleanor Ozich loves making people feel at home so much, she created two simple but detail-rich tiny retreats to play host in As if Eleanor Ozich isn’t busy enough. The Your Home and Garden wellness columnist, mother of three and author who’s currently working on her sixth book, a wholefoods cookbook in which recipes take […]

The boundary between inside and outside is blurred at a Matarangi holiday home thanks to the clever use of sliding doors and raked windows There are no fences to speak of at The Pines, a bach community at the end of the Matarangi sandspit, in the Coromandel. Boundaries are vaguely defined, paths meander under the […]

A backdrop of off-white and pale wood allowed this couple to go bold with brilliant blues of every shade in their bach-turned-home.

From the humble Kiwi bach to an award-winning retreat, here’s our pick of holiday homes for sale around New Zealand New Zealand has had a sizzling summer so far and now that most of us are back at work after the break it’s tempting to dream of securing a holiday home so that you can […]

Swimming in sun and colour, this seaside sanctuary was built around an existing bach and now provides an art-filled environment for everyday living Deanna Eisenhofer and Marcel van den Assum don’t need to go away on holiday. As soon as they get home to their renovated house at Raumati Beach on the Kapiti Coast, they […]