indoor-outdoor

Discovering a glimpse of the sea while standing on their home's roof, this family decided adding another storey was an absolute must.

Indoor spaces meld seamlessly with the outdoors for relaxed, year-round living

One family gives new meaning to indoor-outdoor flow with a new home, where they can see the front and back yard from the open-plan living space When the owners of an earthquake-damaged character home in Merivale, Christchurch, approached Daryl Hewitt about repairing and renovating it, he instead suggested a new-build. “I said to them, for […]

An architect designed this sun-drenched home to perfectly suit a couple with plans of retiring When architect Richard Furze was approached by a design-conscious husband and wife for his professional opinion on a site in Ōmokoroa in the Bay of Plenty, his immediate response was, “Yeah, this is great.” Although it was a reasonably compact […]

Having limited space to work with meant this Auckland couple had to be creative when renovating. Get inspired by their clever interior style A creative couple transform their Avondale home with clever, eclectic style Yuka is Japanese and came to New Zealand in 2003 to study fashion. She met Tristan O’Shannessy later that same year […]

Although they were first time renovators, this family transformed their Avondale do-up with creativity and a clever eye for detail Meet and greet Yuka O’Shannessy, owner, director and curator of An Astute Assembly, and owner and designer of fashion label Yuka&Tristan, Tristan O’Shannessy, design director at Marx Design, Hana, 10, and Monae, 8, plus Franky […]