Ñkhgffy

CHANGE MAKERS Ready for a reinvention?

APR/MAY 2022 NZ/AUS $11.50 INC GST

9 421022 130048

Women of substance carving unique paths

Visionary architecture

by Aotearoa’s best

Endless ideas from real-life interiors

FLEUR ONE SOFA. TWO DISTINCT STYLES A timeless silhouette defined by detailed stitching and gentle curves. Sculptural and distinctive, this design statement in comfortable flexibility is destined to become an Australian design icon.

AUSTRALIA

AUCKLAND

Visit our Parnell Showroom

KUALA LUMPUR

LONDON

SINGAPORE

SHANGHAI

VANCOUVER

AUCKLAND | WELLINGTON | CHRISTCHURCH

B O C O N C E P T.C O M

CONTENTS

80

66

Contents

April/May

HOMES

92 66

By a country mile Meanwhile, back at the Ranch House, a young family is enjoying every minute in a home that’s their best yet.

80

That’s the trick Simultaneously small and big was part of the brief for this renovation.

How hard could it be?

92

We got this Sometimes, choosing to make the best of things can be an even more exciting prospect than starting over somewhere new.

6 homest yle

CONTENTS

52

STYLE 16

Scout Covetable stuff and things.

22

Colour palette Take your house on a trip.

24

What’s on Open Christchurch.

28

Current mood How to be cautiously bold.

30

Bookmark Another favourite read.

32

Paint trends A DIY colour-blocked bedroom.

36

Best Design Awards Gold Pin winners.

46

Maker collaboration Colour meets music.

People 52

Artist profile Cora-Allan Wickliffe.

58

Builder profile Genevieve Black.

DESIGN 106

ETC

Outside in

10

Editor’s note

130

Subscribe

Some pretty chic ‘sheds’.

116

Interior experts Studio 11:11.

123

Woman in architecture Beth Cameron.

36

8 homest yle

Bring your space to life

FRSTJAUG21

Black anodised finish to complement the cladding

See more from this home

firstwindows.co.nz/oh-maimai

Metro Series ThermalHEART for superior thermal performance

Urbo hardware for a clean, modern look

“It’s almost as if this 1970s pole house was where they were meant to end up all along.”

66

106

I’m penning this note from my new home office, where I’ve just unpacked the last box from my family’s recent move, and I can happily say it’s starting to truly feel like mine. Rearranging your possessions in a new house is a funny sort of puzzle to navigate, and we’ve really been enjoying that satisfying feeling when pieces slot perfectly into position. Some of our things fit better in this home than they did in our previous one — it’s almost as if this 1970s pole house was where they were meant to end up all along. There are, of course, a few things I’m dead keen to upgrade, but I’m doing my best to exercise restraint and take my time to let the way we want the spaces to feel sink in, rather than being distracted by quick fixes based on the way they look.

Although I’m not able to share any of my own interior updates with you just yet, this issue we feature a host of talented people who’ll inspire you to take a considered approach to ‘what’s next’ at your place. I found myself viewing the following pages through a new lens before we sent them off to print, adding purchasable pieces to my own wish-list, taking note of the expert advice from professionals who’ve overseen some very wellexecuted renovations, and jotting down tips from homeowners whose first-hand experience in ‘doing it yourself’ is the sort of insider knowledge money can’t buy.

For me, it always circles back to what I know — that the results are more rewarding when I take it slow. So for the foreseeable, you’ll find me right here, gradually collecting ideas from our pages and the remarkable people we feature on them — like those pictured opposite — while wondering what my home might ultimately look like. I hope you’ll join me!

Alice Lines, @alice.lines

80

10 homest yle

92

Portrait: Larnie Nicolson. Alice wears: Darling dress, juliettehogan.com

EDITOR’S NOTE

BUDDY

B d dy X H r

is Basi a M r e ras rass as PVD

The beauty of shine. New luxurious PVD finishes available now.

Auckland Showroom 23 Davis Crescent, Newmarket | 09 526 0136 Wellington Showroom 1 Antilles Place, Grenada Village | 04 568 9898 Available from all leading bathroom retailers.

Visit plumbline.co.nz/wheretobuy Physical Vapour Deposition (PVD) deposits a thin layer of metal onto the tapware in a vacuum chamber, producing an extremely durable finish that will not alter over time.

WEBSTAR MAGAZINE MEDIA AWARDS

SUPREME MAGAZINE OF THE YEAR

EDITOR Alice Lines DEPUTY EDITOR Philippa Prentice ART DIRECTOR Adrienne Pitts CONTRIBUTORS Holly Sarah Burgess Frances Carter Sarah Ell Duncan Innes Wendy Fenwick Scott Hardy Sam Hartnett Emma Kanuik James K Lowe Claire McCall Larnie Nicolson Mark Smith Catherine Steel David Straight Sam van Kan ADVERTISING & COMMERCIAL PARTNERSHIPS Nicholas Burrowes General Manager nick@homestyle.co.nz +64 21 505 992 SUBSCRIPTIONS Online homestyle.co.nz Email subs@homestyle.co.nz Phone 0800 246 637 International phone +64 9 360 5700

PUBLISHER The Pluto Group Ltd Physical 326 New North Road, Kingsland, Auckland 1021 Postal PO Box 911577, Victoria Street West, Auckland 1142 Phone +64 9 300 7544 Email info@homestyle.co.nz PRINTER SCG DISTRIBUTOR Ovato SSN 1177-0015

homestyle is a member of the MPA, and circulation is independently audited under the Audit Bureau of Circulation. Contact us for our latest circulation and readership information. homestyle is subject to copyright in its entirety.

The contents may not be reproduced in any form, either whole or in part, without written permission from the Publisher. All rights reserved in material accepted for publication, unless initially specified otherwise. All letters and other material forwarded to the magazine will be assumed intended for publication unless clearly labelled ‘not for publication’.

No responsibility is accepted for unsolicited material. Paint colours may alter in the printing process.

COVER PHOTOGRAPHY Duncan Innes COVER STYLING Sam van Kan and StudioStudio

Subscribe to homestyle and save on page 130.

Stunningly curated outdoor furniture from Italy, Belgium, France, Indonesia and the Philippines. Before you purchase anywhere, you owe it to yourself to compare. Prices. Design. Quality. You will be so pleased you did. All products are in stock, fully assembled, and available for nationwide delivery. Sunbrella® cushions are included with the purchase of our deep seating pieces as shown on our website.

Kove Outdoor Rope and Aluminium Relaxing Chairs and Coffee Table

Kove Outdoor Aluminium Dining Chairs with Extendible Dining Table

Kove Outdoor Rope and Aluminium Sun Loungers

137 - 147 The Strand, Parnell, Auckland | 0800.111.112 | Open Daily from 9:30 until 5:30 sales@designwarehouse.co.nz | commercial@designwarehouse.co.nz | www.designwarehouse.co.nz

MOROCCO SOFA BY NATADORA

TOLV COLLECTION PENSIVE Design by Cameron Foggo

www.dawsonandco.nz

Style 16

Scout

22

Colour palette

24

What’s on

28

Current mood

30

Bookmark

32

Paint trends

36

Best Design Awards

46

Maker collaboration

Join the gold rush on page 36 as we showcase some of the winners in the Designers Institute of New Zealand’s annual Best Design Awards.

This shining example of refined complexity is by Cheshire Architects.

homest yle 15

STYLE —— Shop

Scout

We’ve been shopping for you and your home.

NOURISHING FEELS Cooked up last year by young parents with support from a start-up grant awarded for their sustainable approach, Oats brings together a wholesome blend of clothing, toys and accessories to make it easier, kinder to the planet, and less time- and money-consuming for you to buy family-oriented finds made here and overseas. Most of it’s for children but aesthetically nutritious for adults too, like these stainless-steel lunchboxes by eco-friendly Danish crowd Haps Nordic. oatskids.co.nz

YOU NAME IT Whatever form of quietly beautiful art and design you’re after, we bet you’ll find it at Tāmaki Makaurau/ Auckland store Public Record, where founder Yuka O’Shannessy champions meticulously made pieces from Aotearoa and Japan.

Her timelessly elegant curation now includes a selection of late US artist and landscape architect Isamu Noguchi’s celebrated Akari light sculptures. Isamu designed the first in his series in 1951, after travelling to Gifu, Japan, to study the region’s traditional crafting of lanterns and umbrellas from paper and bamboo. He described his Akari lights as “poetic, ephemeral and tentative”, and you could call one of them yours via:

Words: Philippa Prentice

publicrecord.shop

16 homest yle

QUITE THE EXPERIENCE Flooring is a cornerstone of any successful interior scheme, and resident expert Forté’s new showroom in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland’s Grey Lynn, at the junction of Great North Road and Grosvenor Street, houses the full selection of its products for your viewing pleasure. Designed in collaboration with Wonder Group, the flagship space is an immersive ‘experience centre’, with a discovery room, a discussion area, a product-selection area and even a concierge service stocked with drinks and nibbles to keep your spirits up. forte.co.nz

Motueka

DYNAMIC DUO Creative power couple Julian Ward and Janice Kumar-Ward manufacture bespoke furniture and cabinetry in West Auckland using environmentally certified materials.

Their designs open up a wonderful world of opportunities for objects of much more interest than the average offering, ’cause they can be customfinished to suit your spaces.

Wardrobes like this snazzy pair would be a fab fit for a bedroom or any other room in your house. > mrandmrsward.nz

Tarantino Linen Camel

Forage Storm

Design your style with our unique range of textiles and our custom making services.

Available nationwide.

Free samples via our website.

www.marthas.co.nz

BIT ON THE SIDE Another multifunctional option that might find its way onto your wish-list is Norman Copenhagen’s Bit stool. Moulded out of recycled plastic, it’s for sitting and standing on, but could be an attractive accomplice in all sorts of other scenarios — use it as a pedestal for a floral arrangement, perhaps, or as a bedside table. Six new shapes and colours have been added to the range, which you can sidle up to at: backhousenz.com

JOINED FORCES Iconic Finnish design house Marimekko’s first home collection for 2022 fuses some of the label’s strongest patterns to produce fabrics printed at their own carbon-neutral textile factory in Helsinki.

Pictured is limited-edition amalgamation Unikko Ralli, a combo of dearly departed designer Maija Isola’s 1964 poppy print and her 1969 rally stripes. boltofcloth.com

Discover a bespoke colour palette with an original soundtrack, created by PPG Paints × Play It Strange ppgpaintsmakers.nz

CROSS PURPOSES The point of Powersurge’s horizontal and vertical Elevation pendants isn’t necessarily to combine them, but the two versions have been configured so that if you want to, you can arrange them to form this crisscrossed sculptural suspension that illuminates in all directions.

Fine feats of artistry yet also highly functional, they’ve been engineered to ensure light is emitted from multiple planes, providing spaces with a glorious glow individually or together.

Handmade from solid brass in Powersurge’s Waitākere workshop, they’re available in two sizes, or custom dimensions if you ask nicely. > powersurge.co.nz

STYLE —— Shop

DRY YOUR BEST We can only do what we can do, and Baina’s a brand that does its thing so well. Continuing to bring the sexy and chic back to an ordinarily dry subject, the women-led, organiccotton towel-maker has just launched its fourth collection, Underwood. It introduces seasonal colour Moss in a nostalgic ribbed, cream-striped design that’s offered as a hand towel, bath towel and bath sheet. All embody Baina’s enduring luxury that should make them your top contender. shopbaina.com

SWEET MOMENTS Aotearoa’s Shibumi make it their business to facilitate your daily rituals by stocking Japanese matcha tea by Kiwi-founded producer Clearspring alongside other zen-inducing finds.

As enticing as pastry canelés, their Canele candle holders by Ovo Things are handmade to fit the Lithuanian brand’s honey-scented candles.

Much like their sugary doppelgängers, they’re crafted in small batches in a lengthy process that requires skill and patience, which if you pause to consider it is tenderly conveyed as your candle slowly burns. shibumi.co.nz

WITH LOVE

MR HANKY

The perfection of a single rose caught Meadowlark creative director Claire Hammon’s eye when she was devising her latest line-up of jewellery, Lucia.

The resulting romantic range throws its arms around myriad styles that embody beauty and courage, from delicately refined floral forms, to edgier pieces like these Geneva earrings with the label’s signature ‘excessive claw’ detail. All are completely and utterly enchanting.

When it comes to the issue of tissues, we wouldn’t mind seeing the masses make a return to the environmentally friendlier handkerchief. Super soft and kind to your skin, this handsome organic cotton one, which goes by the gentlemanly name of Hank, is anything but old-fashioned and zhuzhed up by a Cheetah print by Studio Soph, aka Motueka illustrator and ceramicist Sophie Holt. All about improving our regular habits, Nelson outfit The Green Collective is the brains behind the operation and offers Hank in a total of nine prints by a selection of clever creatives.

meadowlark.co.nz

thegreencollective.co.nz

20 homest yle

TOTES M C COATS Without question, yes, this should absolutely be the year you treat yourself to a fabulous winter coat.

No one ever regrets investing in impeccable outerwear, so we’ve done our research on Juliette Hogan’s latest launch, 2022.One, and selected from many covetable choices this well-tailored design as a distinct possibility for you. In a delicious caramel-toned, recycledwool-blend fabric (and also done in black), the boxy, tapered, double-breasted Cassidy coat exemplifies the luxurious ease of Juliette’s aesthetic, and is a fine demonstration of her remarkable ability to make everyday essentials outstanding. juliettehogan.com

OH TO BE YOU

GROUND WORK

Maybe you’ll never learn to love the locks your mama gave you — or maybe the tools science grad, hairstylist and Botaniq founder Adelle Rodda has created will empower you to finally do so.

Formulated to support your hair to be itself, her cruelty-free, New Zealand-made range (to which she’s recently added this new shampoo and two new conditioners) contains clean, research-backed ingredients (many organic or wild-harvested) in refillable/recyclable packaging.

Inspired by the richness of her local Waiheke Island clay and stone, unfairly talented Esther McDonald of Thea Ceramics has been doing the mahi to develop a gorgeously earthy new glaze, Hōrua.

Translated, ‘Hōrua’ means ‘red ochre’ or ‘burnt kōkōwai’, a pigment that’s highly prized in te ao Māori and used for decoration and sacred traditions. It’s represented here cloaking a couple of Brutalist tumblers.

botaniq.nz

thea-ceramics.com

STYLE —— Colour palette

Power trips A few deft moves with colour will take you on a journey and your home from so-so to whoa.

3

1 2

22 homest yle

Photography: Maarten Willemstein and Delphine Chevalier

Visually, there’s a lot going on at Volare, this new Italian restaurant/bar in Amsterdam, much of it more adventurous than you’d want at home — but overall, the fab fit-out by Studio Modijefsky contains relatable lessons.

It shows how to avoid overt clichés by taking your interior to another time or place with subtle references only (here, the shades and stripes of the Amalfi Coast in the ’60s), use a bold hue in a doorway to transition from one space to the next (a bedroom to a walk-in wardrobe, say) and be decoratively daring in a dining room to create a mood and a talking point. Any one of these techniques could transport your home, as could this good stuff:

6

4

5

Resene Quarter Heathered Grey

Resene Green Meets Blue

9 7

8

10

S

13

C d t

12

11

lf S l sh h

15

16

14

Garde d

OPPOSITE, FROM LEFT 1. Ceramic centrepiece by Ferm Living, $200, slowstore.co.nz. 2. Hunter Round dining table, $2875, cocorepublic.co.nz. 3. Still carafe by Ferm Living, $89, sundayhomestore.co.nz. ABOVE, FROM TOP LEFT 4. L’Opera Bitter Orange aperitif, $55, hastingsdistillers.com. 5. Shell rug by Ferm Living, $249, paperplanestore.com. 6. African side table, $525, corcovado.co.nz. 7. Amara dining chair, $560, kingliving.co.nz. 8. Liila 1 light by Nuura, $630, slowstore.co.nz. 9. Coral 10 Tulips vase by Pols Potten, $415, smithandcaugheys.co.nz. 10. Antigua goblet, $15, freedomfurniture.co.nz. 11. Grape candle by Ann Vincent Studio, $69, infinitedefinite.com. 12. Shockwave hook by Sitting Pretty Design, $59, dandiestore. co.nz. 13. Rawson bar cabinet, $2155, cocorepublic.co.nz. 14. Colour Study No 2 cushion cover, $119, cittadesign.com. 15. Eye pillow by Stem, $36, paperplanestore.com. 16. Pinto basket, $45, cittadesign.com.

Colours from Resene’s MultiFinish range, available at Resene ColorShops and selected resellers.

resene.co.nz/colorshops 0800 RESENE (737 363)

DOOR TO DOOR Run by Te Pūtahi Centre for Architecture & City Making and scheduled for the weekend of April 30, the Open Christchurch festival will roll out the welcome mats at more than 40 of the city’s buildings of architectural excellence. Here, architectural historian and Te Pūtahi director Jessica Halliday predicts some residential highlights.

24 homest yle

Sheppard & Rout offices ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION BY SHEPPARD & ROUT, 2015

This late-Victorian central-city villa has been home to the architectural practice of Sheppard & Rout since the mid-’80s. It’s a superb chance to see how you can retain an older building and be true to the essence of that history, while adapting it for a different use and adding a contemporary extension.

The 1900s villa is light, bright and generous — it feels modern yet grand. The new pavilion is quite different; a single-storey, gabled form clad in dark-stained timber, it extends beyond the width of the house to frame the site and garden. They sit together in harmony, and much of what allows this to occur is their respective elegance and the contrasting ways their spaces are used. A garden wraps around the house, making it a beautiful place in which to work.

What’s on —— STYLE

Megatower

BY THOM CRAIG ARCHITECTS, 2016

I think this is an extraordinary building that potentially forecasts an aspect of the future of urban housing in New Zealand: compact, vertical living on a tiny footprint. Megatower is an unexpected slice of Tokyo residential form in the heart of Merivale, close to suburban amenities and public transport, and just a few kilometres from the city centre. It’s exciting to see such efficient use of land (the plot is just 5 x 5m) and an attractive, well-designed structure sitting on it. It’s particularly inspiring in light of the new mediumdensity rules that allow you to build up to three storeys on any residential site in an urban area; more of this, please!

Rout House Photography: (this page) Patrick Reynolds (top) and Peanut Productions, and (opposite) courtesy of Sheppard & Rout

BY JONT Y ROUT, 1979

The Rout House radiates ease and peace, and embodies living really well, with spaces designed for family life distributed over multiple levels. It came at a time in New Zealand architecture when architects were successfully melding practices of the past (the timber traditions of colonial architecture) with modernism — and it’s an exceptional example. Surrounded by bush, with a view across the harbour and careful craftsmanship shown in the joinery and cladding, it’s very much architecture of this place. It’s also spatially clever — each room has a sense of containment yet is connected vertically through unexpected openings and a spare, airy staircase. What a delight to explore. >

homest yle 25

STYLE —— What’s on

65 Cambridge Terrace

BY WARREN & MAHONEY, 1962 & 1979

Lyttelton Boat Shed

BY JULIE VILLARD & ALTERNATIVE ARCHITECTURE, 2019

Photography: Julie Villard (left) and courtesy of the Warren Trust

Thoughtful and thought-provoking, this high-performance house was included in the Open Christchurch programme because it provides such a great opportunity to learn more about approaches to building that we should be normalising: energy efficiency and performance, and innovative practices like using waste timber as an insulation material.

With the form echoing that of the local boat sheds, it shows how a house can be smart, exceptionally comfortable and still tip its hat to tradition. We’re very lucky that the architect and owner-occupier Julie Villard will be on site during the festival so that visitors can hear from the designer herself about the decisions she made to ensure carbon sequestration and the reduction of energy use over the building’s lifetime.

Aside from this being a masterpiece of Christchurch Modernism, 65 Cambridge Terrace offers much insight into the practice and life of one of our finest architects, Sir Miles Warren, founder of architectural practice Warren & Mahoney. This building was originally designed as Warren & Mahoney’s offices and as a residence for Sir Miles. To accommodate the growing practice, the original building was extended with a tiny flat added on to the roof, and in the late 1970s, a larger flat was added in the garden. Sir Miles lived in all three spaces at one time or another, and the additions reflect different stages in his life and in the practice, yet the building retains a unified architectural philosophy, material palette and approach to space. The relationship of the building to the quiet courtyard garden is of particular significance, as Sir Miles understood the texture, form and space of the garden as part of the architecture. This property is both a wonderful inner-city retreat and a serious work of architecture. openchch.nz

26 homest yle

The Th e Ho Hori rizo zon Coffee Table, designed in New wZ Zea eala land nd.. citt ci ttad ades esig ign. n.co com m • @citta

28 homest yle

Current mood —— KING

Softly spoken You can make a statement with a colourful couch without it yelling, “Look at me!”

ST YLIN G

PH OTO G R APHY

Sam van Kan

Scot t H ardy

Never mind its patented seating system for luxurious support and its backrest you can unfold to create an even more relaxing headrest — judge the Fleur sofa by King anchoring this living space solely on appearances, and you’ll see that its textural blush-toned upholstery is flecked with hints of olive green, warm brown, butter yellow and orange. In fabric that’s anything but ordinary, yet kinder on the eye and able to gel more gently with your overall effect than one in a shoutier shade might, the sofa is used in this serene interior to inform a palette that’s designed to transition effortlessly between the seasons.

This scene also shares how to make a statement but not a fuss with a sofa in an of-the-moment colour by introducing it into a neutral backdrop, then accessorising with shades and shapes that draw from it. Incorporate hues at the dark and light ends of the spectrum, combine different timber finishes (as in this coffee table and sideboard) and consider texture too, seen here in the woven sofa, hand-loomed woollen rug and nubby bouclé chair. kingliving.co.nz

KEY PIECES, FROM LEFT Marion rug in Sandstone, $5300/260 x 360cm; Fleur sofa in Amalfi Blush, $7386/three-seater; Issho coffee table in Congo, $2130; Danielle Roma sideboard in Smoked Oak, $4850; Oliver swivel tub chair in Bowen Natural White, $1881, kingliving.co.nz.

ADDITIONAL ITEMS, FROM LEFT Wells cushion by Missoni Home, $580, tessuti.co.nz. Bianca candle by Pompeii, $49, fatherrabbit.com.

Ceramic pot pourri dish, $92, and Forêts pot pourri, $149, by Christian Tortu, tessuti.co.nz. Design Element fabric (used as curtain), POA, jamesdunloptextiles.co.nz. Petal dish by Rachel Carley Ceramics, $43, tessuti.co.nz. Herringbone vase by Phil Cuttance, $149, everydayneeds.com. Flowers, POA, thelittleflowershop.co.nz. Circle Trio Form candle by Le Lumen, $33, goodthing.co.nz. Colbert Soliflore vase

by Astier De Villatte, $256, tessuti.co.nz. Poet Streets, 2020 artwork

by Matt Arbuckle, $4000, mattarbuckle.com; tworooms.co.nz.

Gemstone and books stylist’s own.

homest yle 29

On the shelf

A read that might change the way you see things.

Forever Flowers

by Antonia de Vere (Schiffer, $60) Do you believe in destiny?

Reading the introductory chapters of floral designer Antonia de Vere’s new book, you just might begin to. Several serendipitous happenings in the life of the more tattooed, pink- and platinum-haired half of creative duo Mark Antonia (the other side of the coin being her designer husband, Mark Seeney) have led her to become the maker of some of Aotearoa’s most sought-after dried florals.

Ever artsy, she grew up in the Garden City, Ōtautahi/Christchurch, exploring its civic green spaces with her family and immersed in the activities in their own floriferous backyard. She loved pressing petals between the pages of her books filled with fairytales; went on to study fashion, jewellery and floral design; and has long had a thing for Egypt and the way its ancient artists used flowers to preserve the moment. She seems to >

THIS PAGE Antonia made this understated yet carefully balanced Japanese ikebana creation using dried strawflowers, jasmine buds, eucalyptus leaves and willow branches. “This style is most like a floral sculpture, and therefore assumes the air of an art piece rather than a floral arrangement,” she says. “I think ikebana arrangements are best when they’re very simple; however, I like to incorporate unexpected materials. In the past, I’ve used pearls, rose quartz and even cashmere, to name just a few different elements.”

Bookmark —— STYLE

Words: Philippa Prentice. Photography: Antonia de Vere and Jessica Whiting

LEFT For traditional cottage bouquets, Antonia favours fragrant flowers and foliage, like the dried eucalyptus, lavender, limonium and nigella seed heads (also pictured below) she used alongside hydrangeas here. BOTTOM The author likes her studio to be a visual library of materials and vessels in which to place them in. “I really do have a lot — often it’s absolutely brimming over the studio, seemingly wanting to explode into the street! I regard my vase collection as an essential tool of the job. I love to imagine how I can use them to show off their best aspect.”

have been born for her current role, and her telling of her journey to it makes for a great story, even before you get to the bit about the actual dried flowers.

On that front, Antonia invites her readers into her studio, before ushering us beyond the velvet ropes of her craft. “I don’t want to be a florist who simply recreates what’s been done before — I want to be an artist who uses flowers as my material,” she says, while encouraging us to take her tips on foraging, harvesting, drying and styling, then let our own creativity blossom. Her guides cover beautiful wreaths, wall hangings and more — though what might strike you above all about this book is how heartfelt it is. Let yourself be inspired by Antonia’s deep love for this medium to make your own captivating dried floral pieces, destined to last for a good long while, whatever your future holds.

homest yle 31

Gold-y blocks Make your bedroom just right with zones in honey-ish hues and other shades, plus shapes designed to soothe.

ST YLIN G Sam van Kan PH OTO G R APHY Wendy Fenwick

32 homest yle

Paint trends —— RESENE

How to…

-

-

-

-

This bedroom set-up shows how colourblocking can be used to differentiate zones within a room. We’ve designated a spot for skincare rituals, used a restful hue to lead into the sleep space and added another to create a moment in a corner. Against a backdrop of neutral Resene Double Merino, our contrasting paint trio of Resene Oak, Resene Tasman and Resene Hampton work cohesively together thanks to their earthy base tones.

To DIY this effect, sketch a plan on paper for colour blocks and moulding that’ll frame or work alongside your décor. Then, use a tape measure, pencil and level to draw outlines on your walls.

Mask them with painter’s tape (available from Resene ColorShops), then apply two coats of your chosen paints inside the tape, allowing them to dry between coats. Once dry, remove the tape.

Resene Colorwood in rich Resene Dark Ebony makes the moulding stand out and grounds the look on the floor. To replicate this moulding, measure and cut your timber to fit your colour-blocked shapes, then sand. Stain and allow to dry before adding a second coat if needed (the more coats, the darker the finish) and a topcoat of Resene Qristal Clear. When dry, nail them to the wall, using a level to ensure they’re straight.

Incorporating organic and rounded shapes will soften the look and set a soothing mood. For a cute-as-a-button headrest, we upholstered a circular canvas, stuffed it with recycled filling and mounted it to the wall. > homest yle 33

RESENE —— Paint trends

PAINTED ITEMS, THIS & PREVIOUS PAGES Walls in Resene SpaceCote Low Sheen in Resene Double Merino; colour blocks in (from left) Resene SpaceCote Low Sheen in Resene Oak, Resene Tasman and Resene Hampton; moulding in Resene Colorwood in Resene Dark Ebony with Resene Qristal Clear; and flooring in Resene Colorwood in Resene Dark Ebony with Resene Qristal ClearFloor, resene.co.nz. LEFT, FROM LEFT Colbert Amphora vase by Astier de Villatte, $369; Moyen Boule d’Ambre scented ball by L’Artisan, $365, tessuti.co.nz. Mini Chloe bag

by Brie Leon, $219, blackboxboutique.com. Rosetta sunglasses

by Auór, $434, everyday-needs.com. Fou d’Absinthe perfume by L’Artisan, $325, tessuti.co.nz. Arch chair by Sarah Ellison, $650; Pond mirror by Ferm Living, $790, slowstore.co.nz. Moon dish

by Misma Anaru, $105, everyday-needs.com. F. Miller eye oil, $112, tessuti.co.nz. Sans Superdose luminosity mask, $65, everyday-needs.com. Maryse Multi-Vitamin body oil, $58, Intensive Omega treatment oil, $66, and Bio-Boost antioxidant serum, $44, everyday-needs.com. Doux necklace by Mimi Et Toi, $299, fatherrabbit.com. Ebb ring, $270, pigmentstudio.co.nz.

F. Miller body oil, $128, tessuti.co.nz. J. Hannah nail polish, $38, tessuti.co.nz. ADDITIONAL ITEMS PREVIOUS PAGES, FROM ABOVE BED Round stretched canvas (used as headrest), $23, spotlightstores.com. Tarantino linen fabric (used as headrest), $98/m, marthas.co.nz. Linen fitted sheet, $159/queen, father rabbit.com. Silk pillowslips by Penny & Bennett, $110 each; Avarua cushion by Missoni Home, $398, tessuti.co.nz. Vista bedspread, $430, and Insert side table, $1385, by Ferm Living, slowstore.co.nz. Luisa Bon Nuit glassware by R&D Lab, $275/set, tessuti.co.nz. Balance candle holder, $100, and Duo candle, $25/ set of 20, by Ferm Living, slowstore.co.nz. Herringbone tray by Phil Cuttance, $132, everyday-needs.com. Gosia bracelet, $310, pigmentstudio.co.nz. Bach earrings by Charlotte Penman, $230, tessuti.co.nz. Maryse treatment balm, $32, everyday-needs.com.

Resene Dark Ebony

Stylist’s tip

Resene Oak

Resene Double Merino

34 homest yle

Resene Tasman

Resene Hampton

This Resene Colorwood stain allows the timber’s grain to show through, adding visual texture you can amplify with furniture in the same vein.

Introducing AUTUMN | WINTER 2022 weavehome.co.nz | @weavehomenz

YOU WIN

In partnership with the Designers Institute of New Zealand, we’ve got to hand it to the recently announced Gold Pin winners in the Residential Architecture, Residential Interior Architecture and Residential Interiors categories of the 2021 Best Design Awards.

Best Design Awards —— STYLE

RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE

TE ARAI BEACH HOUSE

by Fearon Hay Architects

With interiors designed in collaboration with Sonja Hawkins, this home in the upper reaches of the Tāmaki Makaurau/ Auckland region is sited amid Te Arai’s dunes and pine forests. It comprises a pair of gabled timber sheds referencing those found in rural Aoteroa, with an area for seating and an outdoor fire between them.

To moderate the light, air, view and privacy, the house is layered with sliding timber shutters that, along with the roof and cladding, will develop a patina over time, further integrating the buildings with the landscape. The use of timber inside (oiled to provide warmth as a subtle counter to the exterior) brings the building together as a whole, and blurs indoors and out.

A combination of sloping and flat ceilings provides both intimate and voluminous spaces inside this home.

Where the ceilings are raised and sloping to the ridge, a dado of timber down-stands links the spaces and consolidates the glazing and shutter lines on the perimeter.

As much sustainably grown timber as possible was used in this environmentally conscious project; the roof utilises timber box beams and joists to avoid the use of steel beams. It also collects rainwater that’s stored for non-potable uses, and wastewater is processed and disposed of on site. Large overhangs, low-e glazing and operable shutters allow the house to operate without air-conditioning. >

homest yle 37

RESIDENTIAL INTERIORS

LEIGH BACH BLISS

by Du Bois Design blasted oak cabinetry, and oak flooring.

Because the island is on show from all angles, an additional working area was included behind full-height, multi-directional bifold doors; timber veneer shelves and drawers, with a basalt grey benchtop and backsplash, ensure it looks good whether they’re open or closed. The new laundry is now a multifunctional space that provides extra pantry and crockery storage, plus a drinks fridge.

Photography: (previous pages) Simon Wilson, (this page) Babiche Martens and (opposite) Sam Hartnett

The renovation of this 1970s bach in Leigh, north of Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, encompassed the kitchen, dining, living and laundry. Much work was undertaken to improve these areas, with highlights including the reorientation of the tight, U-shaped kitchen into a galley configuration for better flow and to maximise the sea view.

A mid-century aesthetic is subtly expressed in elements such as the curved stone, bead-

38 homest yle

Best Design Awards —— STYLE

RESIDENTIAL INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE

HERNE BAY ROAD HOUSE

by Bureaux

Opportunities were taken to retain the heritage fabric of this handsome villa in Herne Bay, Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, and work within the existing footprint. Every surface touched has been crafted and textured, from the restored timber floors to the twin motifs of panelled timber and luxurious stone used throughout.

Reworking the floorplan to suit contemporary family life involved rethinking the bedroom and bathroom access by removing the traditional central axis. Concealed by a cavity slider on one side, two of the bedrooms now share an ensuite-esque bathroom, to enhance privacy and create a retreat-like ambience. The main bedroom access slips past the fireplace in the living room. As such, the home becomes less reliant on the hallway; which instead becomes a lobby that feeds into the main living area.

The kitchen provides two elegant solutions to compact living: the island — a curved plinth for food preparation and casual dining — and the stone slab that extends from floor to ceiling, which serves a practical role in the neat separation of space, with one rear niche accommodating a scullery and the other the laundry. >

homest yle 39

This home enjoys views from Okakari Point/Cape Rodney and Te Hauturu-o-Toi/Little Barrier Island, up to Taranga Island and Te Whara/Bream Head in the north.

RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE

FIELDING HOUSE

by Cheshire Architects

To form this glazed pavilion located in the dunes above a golf course north of Auckland, the two planes of a roof and main floor were joined by three timber-clad conic forms that house the fireplace, kitchen and bathrooms.

A partial lower floor reached by a lift contains a guest suite, garage, storage and plant room.

Glass pavilions are a familiar form in mid-century architecture, but this one is given some complexity, as the cones break up the open expanse of the house, offering enclosure amid the open plan,

40 homest yle

and the unexpected revelation of the spaces and views as you move between the gently inclined walls. In a wide-open landscape, the presence of the tapered forms supporting the roof above slows the sitting space and induces a sense of calm from which to embrace the horizon.

The landscape was the muse for the soft, natural palette that includes interior plaster walls finished with sand from the site, pale timber floors, woollen carpet, leathered stone, hand-glazed tiles and flowing curtains that provide privacy for the more intimate spaces.

Best Design Awards —— STYLE

RESIDENTIAL INTERIORS

LOWER SHOTOVER HOUSE

by Bureaux

Photography: (this page) Jackie Meiring and (opposite) Sam Hartnett

This home is located on a plateau above Tāhuna/Queenstown’s Kimiākau/ Shotover River, and references the vernacular of the stone barns and houses that dot this region. Partially embedded in the landscape (a decision that contributes to this dwelling’s impressive thermal performance) and with a green roof of grasses, it’s unobtrusive in its surroundings, but on closer inspection welcomes visitors with a schist-wrapped composition of gabled and contemporary forms. Inside, the dramatic interior is like a finely crafted piece of joinery, with floors, walls and ceilings in solid oak balanced with exposed schist for contrast. The prevalence of natural materials continues in the kitchen and bathrooms’ solid slabs of travertine.

As this was a full-service project, Bureaux also custom-designed almost all of the furniture, and any other furniture items and objects were carefully specified, right down to the commissioned crockery. >

homest yle 41

RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE

SHAPESHIFTER

by Crosson Architects

Photography: (this page) Patrick Reynolds and (opposite) Sam Hartnett

An escape from a city apartment, this sculptural home at the northern tip of the Omaha Peninsula provides an interesting getaway for a couple, with the ability to expand to cater for extended family. The house is built from materials appropriate to the marine environment that require minimal maintenance and have a simplicity and robustness. It’s a habitable sculpture with a dynamic roof, a chevron delineating the interior circulation and stairs, and a roof terrace accessed with a ‘pop-out’ exit. The interior spills out onto the lawn, on which the home is deliberately positioned to accommodate a ‘tent city’ on the section during summertime family holidays.

The material palette is pared back and robust, expressing contrasting materiality and colour between base, middle and top. A membrane product traditionally used in roofing applications wraps down as a cladding for the top floor. The tarry black membrane sits in contrast to the smooth, white weatherboards below in colour, texture and tradition.

The major innovations here lie in the materiality and the form. The use of the dark roofing membrane atop the white weatherboards packs a powerful punch outside on arrival, while the sculptural form reflecting the interior circulation creates dynamic ceiling volumes and an exciting sense of movement inside.

42 homest yle

Best Design Awards —— STYLE

Successful alteration projects in character suburbs require empathy for the existing structure.

RESIDENTIAL INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE

SANDRINGHAM HOUSE This substantial alteration and addition was conducted on a dilapidated villa in Sandringham, Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland (you might recall the full story from our December/January 2022 issue). In total, around 120m2 was added to the home in a way that feels ageless, empathetic and appropriate.

The new extension is clearly delineated from the original villa by a link that covers the powder room and den. To create a sense of solidity and timelessness, a material palette of white bricks and timber joinery was established for the exterior.

Inside, a new floor plane steps down with the topography of the site from front to back. Overhead, the living area’s high gable also

by Bureaux

defines the living space, expanding upwards as you enter from the front door and progress past the bedrooms and the link ceiling over the den. The combination of stepping down into a high volume enhances the drama of the living and kitchen space, and builds a connection with the rear garden.

To further enhance the delineation of space, several visual anchors were introduced. A timber console, accessible from both sides, defines the dining zone, and a white-brick chimney brings the exterior’s materiality into the living area, while a corresponding exterior fireplace heats the patio. Warm timber and slate accents reinforce the commitment to craft. >

homest yle 43

KENNEDY’S HOUSE

by Z Architecture Republic Ltd

The brief for the renovation of this 1945 stucco home in Greenlane, Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland was simple: extend the house out the back, create a more modern space and usher in light.

To achieve this in a way that ensured privacy while retaining the inside and outside flow, the strategy was to alter the house as little as possible and dedicate the bulk of the budget to the extension, rather than costly rework.

The three rooms in the existing part of the house received only minor adjustments to create a new bathroom, an office and an opening to the existing central hallway, linking the modern pavilion. These additions divide the rear site from the existing house and create surrounding airy, green courtyards.

44 homest yle

For the interior, the focus was placed on spatial contrast along the extension’s length.

The existing timber floor extends out to the new office and bedroom, then drops a few steps to an exposed concrete slab in the new living, dining and kitchen area. This brings more volume to the space, a more intimate feel and better engagement with the backyard.

Only 80m 2 was added with the extension, but the high-stud ceiling and use of natural light and unimpeded flow to the external spaces makes the home feel more expansive.

The extension is modern but plays off the original and new materials, the variance of the building forms and the different elevations to offer continuity yet contrast between old and new.

Photography: (this page) David Straight and (opposite) Sam Hartnett

RESIDENTIAL INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE

Best Design Awards —— STYLE

RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE

THE FOLLY

by Cheshire Architects

The Folly sits at the end of a clifftop garden overlooking the inner Hauraki Gulf and Rangitoto Island. At its simplest, it’s a garden shed, but it’s also somewhere to stay and in which to sit under the trees and enjoy the sound and scent of the sea in front of a fire. The garden shed and storage are located on one side under the pitched roof, while the guest house and sheltered deck are located under a flat roof on the other side.

The detailing appears simple but is highly sophisticated.

There aren’t any gutters — water runs off the roof into a rain garden. Steel cladding encloses a single room and a porch lined in reclaimed teak, suggesting a modest simplicity. Yet all is not as it seems — concealed doors lead to a kitchen and bathroom, and a bed folds out into a carefully defined room. The main room has windows that appear to be steel-framed but are actually fine timber fins and give the space the feeling of an enclosed porch. bestawards.co.nz

Here, the intention was to create not only gardening and maintenance storage but also a bookend to the garden.

Could music help you choose colours for your home?

PPG Paints and Play It Strange are proving it’s not that big a stretch. PPG’s chief coloursmith Rachel Lacy tells how.

STRANGER THINGS INTERVIE W Alice Lines

PH OTO G R APHY M ark Smith

46 homest yle

Maker collaboration —— PPG PAINTS

PPG PAINTS SIMPLE THINGS

PPG PAINTS MAPLE MASALA

PPG PAINTS SUBTLE VERDANT

PPG PAINTS LEAFY GREEN

PPG PAINTS BLAZON FIRE

So Rachel, PPG’s been collaborating with New Zealand creatives as part of its Makers range, and the latest coupling is with charity Play It Strange, which supports young songwriters to write, record and perform their own songs.

How did that happen? Whether it’s a beautiful song tugging at your heartstrings or a beautifully painted room lifting your spirits, sound and colour both provoke an emotional response. We tend to be comfortable deciding what music we like but are reluctant to trust our instincts when it comes to colour selection, so we wanted to explore the idea of combining the two as a different way to consider and choose colour for our homes.

For PPG Paints, being part of the communities we operate in globally is stitched into our DNA, so when we were looking for a partner for this project, Play It Strange was an easy choice.

The whole experience was such a joy.

So you brought together 10 young Kiwi artists to create a palette made up of 10

original colours plus 10 original songs to go with them, recorded for an album called The Sound of Colour — how did they go about doing so? The artists selected their colours independently of each other, and without any suggestions or rules imposed by us, and what we got was a riot of colour. The carefree, joyful paints in the palette both hold their own and sit happily within the group.

Each musician has a story to tell about why they choose their colour, all of which you’ll find on our website, along with their songs. Billie Comer’s Dowling St reminds her of running through Dunedin in the pouring rain with friends one day around the time she was writing her song, Help Me >

ABOVE PPG Paints’ Rachel Lacy. TOP RIGHT The palette was also used to refresh Play It Strange’s Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland office. CEO Mike Chunn (pictured overleaf) says it “has given our work environment a real allure. When you walk in, you feel embraced by something that’s unifying but also has a huge variety to it.” TOP LEFT Marianne Leigh with The Sound of Colour.

Her hue Simple Things comes from the name and artwork of her own mini-album released last year — plus purple’s her favourite colour.

OPPOSITE Mayank Kumar penned a song call Me & You, and inspired by his Indian heritage concocted Maple Masala to go with it.

homest yle 47

PPG PAINTS DOWLING ST

PPG PAINTS OTAGO SUNRISE

PPG PAINTS OATMEAL

PPG PAINTS PALE LELLOW

PPG PAINTS HAUMARINGI

TOP LEFT Of the alignment of music and colour in this project, Mike (of Split Enz fame) says, “It seems natural to me.”

He’s reminded of the time John Lennon walked into a recording studio as a song was being mixed and said to the engineer that he wanted it to sound like an orange.

“A lot of people have said that’s a strange thing to say. In my mind, it makes perfect sense.” TOP RIGHT Jalayne Te Paa loves misty morning skies, hence her colour Haumaringi, meaning ‘mist’. ABOVE Kaipara-formed now Wellington-based band Selohrae’s shade Leafy Green is reminiscent of rural New Zealand in spring.

48 homest yle

Remember, with the sky bluish-grey above them. Katie-Lee Webster’s soft green Subtle Verdant suggests feelings of safety while representing growth and change. Tara Canton enjoys eating oatmeal out of a green bowl every morning, and her Oatmeal paint colour makes her feel just as good.

something that was in that colour.

How have music and colour influenced your own life? Every family has their anthems, and I grew up listening to Leonard Cohen. My mother [Prue Cook, who founded her own paint company in 1993] used to sing along to his songs — they were our lullabies. We sung Hallelujah at her funeral and it sounded like a big, magical choir.

My memories of music and colour are inseparable and when I think of my mother, I always think of the cerulean blue that she loved so much. Every bedroom in our house was either cerulean or contained

What colour pairings in this palette work particularly well? Neutral Haumaringi on the walls with yellow Otago Sunrise on the ceiling would make a strikingly lovely combination for a living space. For less of a statement, colours that blend into each other can be easier to combine — Blazon Fire and Pale Lellow, for example. For an exterior, Dowling St and Leafy Green would be great together.

PPG Paints Makers colours are created

by New Zealand artists and designers, and sold exclusively at Bunnings; ppgpaintsmakers.nz

We love the idea of using music to inform our colour choices — how could we go about doing that? When listening to the music you love, think about what colour comes mind — then trust your instincts.

Maker collaboration —— PPG PAINTS

MAKE-IT-WORK MOOD BOARD

You could make a hero of just one of these hues or combine several to create a symphony of colour. Whatever you prefer, achieve a harmonious effect with the rest of your interior scheme by considering the balance between warm and cool, and light and dark. Imagine your palette coming together like a lead singer and backing band, then experiment with shades until you land on a few that are in tune with your style.

PPG PAINTS SUBTLE VERDANT

PPG PAINTS DOWLING ST

HINGS PPG PAINTS SIMPLE TH

PPG PAINTS PALE LELLOW

PPG PAINTS MAPLE MASALA

BACKDROP Checkerboard fabric, $60/m, marthas.co.nz. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT Hem sofa, $4133, cittadesign.com.

Galet carpet, POA, bremworth.co.nz. Relae bowl by Raawii, $275, smithandcaugheys.co.nz. Artisan Slim Subway Gloss tiles, $61/m2, tilehaus.co.nz. Lens Minor Major 04 pendant, $6200, snellingstudio.com. Velluti fabric, POA, jamesdunloptextiles.com.

Bachelor chair by Montana, $1250, cultdesign.co.nz. Tangerine Grid fabric, $60/m, marthas.co.nz. Butter Spot pillowcase

by Castle, $85, smallacorns.co.nz. Micro 30 Mini Mosaics tiles, $593+GST/m2, materialspace.co.nz.

homest yle 49

Home Comforts With crisp cool days on the way, create inviting spaces to come home to.

Discover beautiful bed linen, stylish homeware, dreamy sleepwear and cosy loungewear designed for autumn and beyond.

Rosedale • Takapuna • Ponsonby • Newmarket Cambridge • Napier • Wellington • Christchurch wallacecotton.com

People 52

Artist profile

58

Builder profile

Winning a grant from Creative New Zealand allowed artist Cora-Allan Wickliffe to focus on her work full-time in 2021, but the road to get there wasn’t necessarily easy. “I’ve been rejected and declined a lot — and when I say ‘a lot’, I mean 100-plus times!” she says. All that perseverance is paying off though, as you’ll see in our profile over the page.

homest yle 51

WO RDS Philippa Prentice

CORA-ALLAN WICKLIFFE CALLS HERSELF A “TRUE WESTIE”, BUT HER ART IS TRUE TO OTHER ASPECTS OF HER HERITAGE. PH OTO G R APHY Holly Sarah Burges s

Artist profile —— PEOPLE

homest yle 53

PEOPLE —— Artist profile

Multidisciplinary artist Cora-Allan Wickliffe is represented by galleries in both Tāmaki Makaurau/ Auckland (Masterworks) and Pōneke/Wellington (Bartley & Company Art), and has lived and practised her craft overseas. These days, however, she’s happily based in Waitākere/West Auckland, where she grew up. Of Māori (Ngāpuhi, Tainui) and Niuean (Alofi, Liku) descent, she completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts & Design in Photography at AUT, then graduated in 2013 with a Masters in Visual Arts & Design in Performance.

In recent years, she’s turned her talent to traditional hiapo barkcloth painting, and is thought to be the only current practitioner using methods and materials similar to those used in Niue before the early 1900s.

54 homest yle

So Cora-Allan, you’ve expressed yourself through various means in the past — what methods and materials are you using now? At present, my thoughts and heart are with hiapo. A lot of my methods reflect a traditional practice and I like the arduous process of making the barkcloth, the ink, and then the painting.

Using materials sourced from nature makes things fun and cheap, and I’m grateful to Papatūānuku [Earth Mother] for all of the materials I use.

I’ve always been passionate about learning traditions from both sides of my heritage, and now I’m able to enjoy making work from natural resources, as our tūpuna did. Making hiapo is physical and hard, but I love using plants, clays and soils for colour; it feels very

basic and normal — the kind of normal I want to pass down to my sons Chaske-Waste and Wakiya-Wacipi.

You’ve been instrumental in reviving the art of hiapo in the Niuean community — what led you to pursue it? My grandparents asked me to make hiapo for their burial cloths, and they’ve been so good to me my whole life and asked for nothing, so I couldn’t say no! I also have a very stubborn personality and can usually figure out most things, so this was a journey I was willing to take for them.

I did a lot of research to discover the processes of other islands all over the Pacific, and pieced together what would make the most sense in Niue with the plants there. Making my practice sustainable was about figuring out how to harvest materials from the islands and use the materials I have locally, and make it all work so I can produce hiapo year-round.

You’ve been the recipient of several prestigious awards, most recently the McCahon House Artist’s Residency, which you took up in French Bay/Otītori Bay in Titirangi from September to December. What were some of the highlights of that experience? The residency was a gift for my whānau — moving into a space near the beach after lockdown was just what we needed, and I’d been preparing all year and was ready to start making. There were so many highlights, but being able to make more than 300 works, experimenting with colour and finding 19 different colours in the Waitākere area was amazing, plus spending time with my sons in the McCahons’ old house and them just being present was cool.

The residency gave me my dream space — and then we had to move back into our whare! But it has given me something to aim for [a larger studio than her current >

THESE PAGES Part of Cora-Allan’s residency (pictured) was to document local pigments, but she wasn’t expecting to find more than a handful.

“Nineteen is a huge number, and when they’re all next to each other, you’re able to see how many colours can exist naturally,” she says. “The bright pink was the biggest surprise. I’ve never worked with that colour, but it quickly became a favourite because it was so full of life. When I began archiving the colours, I didn’t think I’d be using them on hiapo, but I’d found a space in my practice in which I was able to combine knowledge from my Māori whakapapa with my Niuean side, and the new works gave me the space to combine customary practices through soaking the materials in each other.

Discovering the colour absorbed into damp hiapo while it was drying was a great find — the cloth holds onto the whenua like they’re best friends, and the textures between the earth and barkcloth are stunning.”

homest yle 55

BELOW Cora-Allan’s days at McCahon House kicked off with trips to the beach or out to harvest materials. She says, “I enjoyed the shapes of the landscapes that I started sketching from the water in the rowboat I bought off Facebook Marketplace [and named after her late koro/ grandad], and began incorporating them on the cloth.”

one at home] and I now know what I’m capable of, and that when given time and space, I expand and make a crapload of good work.

What flows through your fingers when you’re creatively in the zone? I watch Netflix and just go for it! I paint intuitively and let things flow, especially when I’m working on larger pieces — although there is the odd time when I just sit back and stare at the blank hiapo for ages. Once the image emerges off the surface, I paint until I get tired, and then start again the next day. I like feeling fresh and energised, and it keeps my lines clean.

What are you optimistic about? I’ve always known what I want and had big goals; the saying “Stranger things have happened” pops into my head when I second-guess myself and helps me continue working towards them. Being optimistic and confident can be hard, but I love being an artist and will work hard for the dream. I’m grateful for every opportunity I’m given.

What’s one thing you tell yourself when the going gets tough?

I always see the bigger picture, so I expect things to be challenging and am not too surprised when things don’t work out. My partner Daniel Twiss is amazing and reminds me not to sweat the small stuff, plus I grew up with a hardworking dad who never moaned, so I’m very much like that and just keep going.

Paintings from your residency are being exhibited at Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery until June, and other work is held at Auckland Museum and Te Papa — where else will we be able to see your stuff in 2022? I have a pretty solid year that started in February with the show at Te Uru and another in Paris. There are still a couple of things to be confirmed, but my other shows this year will be at Bartley & Company and Webb’s in March, Melanie Roger Gallery in June, Corban Estate Arts Centre in July and Masterworks in September. cora-allan.co.nz; @coraallanwickliffe

Artist profile —— PEOPLE

THIS PAGE “I made vigorously and without much thought,” says Cora-Allan.

“Moving away from patterns was scary, but it all came naturally during the exploration process. You’re really able to see my process via the works I made at the residency; most of the tools I used are documented in the works and all the new whenua colours have been archived in a palette.”

homest yle 57

INTERVIE W Emma Kaniuk

GENEVIEVE BLACK FELL INTO HER PROFESSION AND CAN’T ENVISAGE EVER FALLING OUT WITH IT. PH OTO G R APHY Frances C ar ter

Builder profile —— PEOPLE

homest yle 59

Australian-born, with Filipino and Caucasian heritage, Genevieve Black was raised in a little place called Woy Woy, north of Sydney, and moved to Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland 11 years ago. She brought her bartending/management and landscaping/gardening background with her and carried on doing both, before unexpectedly finding her calling in construction.

So Genevieve, who or what inspired you to become a builder? I randomly found building after a drunken night out on which I met my first boss, Steve Holmes of Calibre Construction.

I’d always enjoyed physical work, and offered up my — lack of — skills while out on the town, talking shit. I never had any kind of interest in that sort of thing whatsoever, but with him teaching me as I went along, I ended up helping him build a fence in Grey Lynn. As soon as I picked up one of his tools, I knew it was what I wanted to do. It was like seeing ‘the one’ across the room.

Today, I do what I do because of the joy and fulfilment it brings me. I like the step-by-step process and structure the trade provides, and enjoy all the small things about building that lead to the big things and creations that happen — nailing nails, digging holes, standing frames, taking measurements and writing on the timber, making beautiful cuts with new blades, even sharpening my pencil. I enjoy almost everything.

What kinds of projects are you working on at the moment? I’ve mostly been doing renovations/ extensions with the company I work for as my main job, residential building company Build & Craft. We’re working on a renovation in Remuera at the moment, then we’ll be doing some work for development company Winton, and then another renovation and a new build after that.

In the weekends [and through Tradespeople, Aotearoa’s national directory of women and gender-diverse tradies], I take on my own work, from handywoman odd jobs to remedial work.

What’s been your favourite building job so far?

Probably a new build on Great Barrier Island five years ago, a 100m2 build with a deck. We camped in tents on site and had a long drop for a toilet, and I bathed in the sea at a secret waterhole the family we were building for took me to. It was >

60 homest yle

THESE PAGES “Building provides variety — it’s not often that I get bored,” says Genevieve, who learned her craft on the job.

“I love the banter and casual environment too. If you’re working with a cool group of people, the work environment is super fun and you get to experience great teamwork building stuff together.

A typical day is all day on the tools.

It’s hard but a good time!”

Builder profile —— PEOPLE

homest yle 61

PEOPLE —— Builder profile

ABOVE Does Genevieve dream of building a new home for her and her daughter Claude one day? “Rather than build new, I’d love to renovate or add an extension to my current home — I think I’d get a greater sense of satisfaction from seeing the transformation,” she says. “I’d renovate and extend the home I own with my ex-partner and in-laws, so there would be enough bedrooms in the main house and then two small cottages on the property that family and friends could come to stay in.”

real rustic styles — no soap for six weeks! After work, I’d walk down the gravel road to the neighbour’s place to visit her pigs and have wine by the fire with Māori bread [rēwena].

It was absolutely magical.

What’s the best thing about being a builder? There are so many awesome things about building, but the core answer to that question is how fulfilling it is. To see the result of what you’ve worked so hard to build is such an awesome feeling, especially when you’ve done it well, because building isn’t always easy. Even the challenges are awesome, though. You never stop learning and if you have the right attitude, you’re always improving.

What’s the best thing you’ve ever created? My daughter, Claude.

What are your favourite snacks that you don’t like to share? Chocolate and ice-cream.

What makes you hopeful in these strange times?

When you’re down, the only way is up.

When you’re able to travel, where would you

62 homest yle

like to go to next? Australia and the Philippines.

How can people have more fun? By living in the moment and not caring about what others think.

What else should we know about you? That I love self-help, true crime and puzzles.

Amazing, us too… but back to the building — which of your personal qualities inform your approach to your work? I’d say I’m considered, practical and generally enthusiastic. I like to take reasonable time and work efficiently for the best outcome. I don’t like to waste people’s money, so I try to get the best bang for their buck where I can.

What would you say to anyone else who suspects building might be their thing? Go for it. Do the carpentry trade certificate, or start out labouring to see if you can hack the hard work. You really have to work your way up and do the hard yards before you start doing the cool shit. Then, once you get to the cool shit, it’s much more satisfying because you know how hard you’ve worked to get where you are. @genevieve__black; @tradespeople_nz

EXPERIENCE THE PLEASURE OF A NEW OUTDOOR SPACE Nothing beats new. We combine the best of new with our award-winning experience to build you a home that reflects who you are and how you live. We partner with you to handle everything from initial design to final sign-off.

The complete experience. Guaranteed.

EXPERIENCE THE NEW

Homes 66

By a country mile

80

That’s the trick

92

We got this

For renovator Bailey Meredith, “the biggest challenge was that everything had to be imagined.

It’s difficult to visualise materials coming together, so there will probably be some things I’ll wish my husband and I had done differently, but I feel proud that we pulled this together in our heads.” Flip to page 92 to get the full picture of what they dreamed up.

homest yle 65

By a Meanwhile, back at the Ranch House, a young family is enjoying every minute in a home that’s their best yet.

Co untry m i le WO RDS

PH OTO G R APHY

Philippa Prentice

L arnie Nicolson

THE PROJECT Stylist Sjan Johansen and her husband John Guise (who runs a marketing and events business) renovated this fourbedroom home in Oropi, Tauranga, for themselves and their children Frankie (3) and Georgie (1).

D

own a winding side road, over a one-lane bridge and up the last rise to the driveway, an arrow reading ‘This way’ is your guide around the final gravelled bend to the door of a Tauranga home affectionately named the Ranch House.

Its owners Sjan Johansen and John Guise didn’t set out to live in the country, but now they’re the proud owners of this one-hectare haven with an unparalleled panoramic view, they hope never to let it go. “We’re still in awe,” says Sjan.

“We’ll do everything we can to hold onto it.”

That’s saying something for these serial renovators, who’ve updated three houses in Noosa, one in Brisbane, one in Queenstown and one in Mount Maunganui prior to this, and tend not to believe there’s just one dream life to live.

But for Queensland native Sjan and Kiwi John, who moved to New Zealand from across the Tasman three-and-a-half years ago, there’s just something about this place.

68 homest yle

In the rolling hills on Tauranga’s western side, yet still close to town and the Mount beach beyond it, this area, Oropi, is populated by farms, orchards and lifestyle properties — but few quite like this.

Before it was subdivided, Sjan and John’s slice of heaven was part of a larger farm on which a family was raised in a home built in the ’70s on one of the original house sites in the area. Since this founding family passed the baton to Sjan and John, the pair have overhauled the house, keeping the L-shaped footprint but revamping much of the rest.

They took out the walls in the main entrance, living room and kitchen to create one open-plan space, and put in new doors and windows to connect it to the wraparound deck. When the wall removal revealed the low-pitched ceilings weren’t in the best shape, they opted to replace them with plywood panels, visually warming the home in the process.

Out came the lino in the living spaces in favour of grinding and sealing the concrete underneath, >

HOMES

THIS PAGE The walls in the main living spaces are in popular neutral Dulux Haast Double, but when it comes to décor, Sjan says she favours the unexpected. “I’m constantly trawling Facebook Marketplace, Trade Me and op shops for pieces no one else has.

I love that most of the things in our home have a story.” Some of the key items here include (far left) an At the Table print by Hey Maker and surfboard

by Maywood, (left) a Noosa Heads First Point photograph by Harrison Mark, and (below) a circular artwork Sjan made herself, chairs she found on Marketplace and a Mill Stump side table beside them from local studio Kayu. OPPOSITE John painted the exterior bricks in Dulux Haast as well, while the roof is in Dulux Woodland Grey. The hanging chair was found at Mrs Robinson in Tarras, Otago.

homest yle 69

LEFT The former pool room with hectic beer-themed wallpaper is now a stylish dining room closed off by a sliding barn door from Visual Hardware and set up with kids’ toys in one corner that allow it to perform as a playroom. The cost-effective concrete flooring in this and the other living spaces “shows all the imperfections, but we like it that way,” says Sjan. “Given we rent out the house on Airbnb, we need hard-wearing elements like this, which are awesome with the kids and the dog and multiple people and spills and all of that.”

Behind the table from Freedom and second-hand chairs, Sjan has hung a set of happy snaps in frames from Spotlight. The lamp is also from Freedom, while the curtains are from H&M.

while the marbled brown carpet in the bedrooms was exchanged for a charcoal upgrade. Wallpaper of various jazzy descriptions sashayed across most of the walls, but like the bones of the home, it was in exemplary condition, so instead of stripping it off before repainting, they sealed it, then had a plasterer skim-coat and sand the joins, something Sjan recommends for a faster process and a better finish. “Plus, we kept our sanity,” she says.

On the opposite side of the hallway, the couple combined the separate bathroom and shower room to create one space to redecorate. Past the curved wall beside this — a nifty existing feature they were thrilled to retain — the bedrooms were also in good nick and swiftly brought up to scratch with new joinery and décor details.

These “doers” got the bulk of all that completed in just eight weeks. Sjan was pregnant with their

70 homest yle

second daughter Georgie at the time, and with toddler Frankie to wrangle too, she wasn’t able to work as much as she had on previous projects.

Still, she helped DIY when she could (including uncovering, then rendering and painting the original fireplace), while John project-managed; did the majority of the demolition; helped install the joinery; painted undercoats and the entire exterior; hung shelving; attached skirting boards, door frames, doors and handles; built the fences, deck, retaining walls, pergola and bedroom headboards; shovelled gravel; and more besides.

As well as being a mum, Sjan is a stylist who’s worked on everything from TV ads in Australia to magazine covers in Aotearoa. For this project, she drew from the landscape, combining country with coast and light with dark. “I kept it fresh but earthy through the use of beautiful textures and >

HOMES

“Open shelving lets the kitchen feel a bit like a living room and is a good way to showcase our treasures.”

ABOVE To keep things interesting without compromising her preference for pared back, Sjan regularly swaps her display items for others from her collection of props. The splashback tiles are Mallorca White Satin from Tile Space.

LEFT The existing kitchen was boxed in and about half the size of the new edition.

“It was a no-brainer to open it all up,” says Sjan. Designed by the couple and made from Tasmanian blackwood by John Blair of Happy Sunday, the kitchen table is so solid, the maker delivered it with three mates to help him carry it, while John and his friend provided extra manpower. Around it sit Loretta bar stools from Cintesi. The Dampier Lantern 70 light overhead is from The Society Inc.

homest yle 71

KITCHEN Sjan’s love of the unique is evident in details such as these leather handles by Made Measure, and the brushed brass Buddy tap by Progetto from Plumbline she wiped with vinegar over the course of a week to give it a more worn-in patina to suit her “modern but lived-in” aesthetic. She says her favourite part of the kitchen is probably the walk-in pantry, concealed behind a canvas curtain from Pony Rider. “It was a small cupboard accessed from the hallway, so we closed off the access and put in cabinetry and shelving, and hid the fridge in there too, which works really well.”

HOMES

ABOVE Instead of more commonly seen sliding or bifold windows, the couple chose to install a gas-strut design here, tracking down a joiner to make the frame and hinges, getting the glass installed by a glazier and attaching the struts themselves. The wideeaved external corridor it connects to is ideal for relaxing on outdoor seating from The Warehouse, unwinding with friends or watching Frankie play on her swing and trampoline with the best view in town. The Harbour wall light here is from Lighting Direct.

homest yle 73

robe

deck

bed

bed

living kitchen pantry

robe

entry bath

robe

bed

robe

laundry bed dining

natural materials that make the house feel alive, authentic and handcrafted,” she says. “It’s definitely built for the way we live — we don’t have to be too precious about anything.”

Alongside their daughters, Sjan and John are raising a weimaraner dog and two Highland cows here. Rabbits and a couple of turkeys roam onto their plot, the neighbours’ pooch comes over to play, and possums pilfer from their fruit and nut trees. There’s birdsong in the air from dawn till dusk, as well as the crowing of roosters, the braying of donkeys and, says Sjan, “if our cows are grazing in the paddock behind our bedroom, we can hear them munching and sneezing”.

Along with finishing the powder room off the dining space, this great outdoors will be the last big thing for the talented twosome to tackle.

“It’s going to take time, but we’ve slowly been chipping away at it,” says Sjan. “If budget allows, we’d love to add a plunge pool to the front lawn…

One thing we’ve learned about this property is that it’s an ever-evolving project.”

It’s one they’re balancing with an inherently and pleasantly slower pace. “We feel so relaxed and free here, disconnected from the grind but not isolated,” says Sjan. “There are days when I realise I haven’t left the house — you forget, because you don’t really need to. That’s pretty cool.”

You can experience the good life here too if you like. Look for Ranch House Oropi on airbnb.co.nz.

74 homest yle

HOMES

ABOVE Sjan and John sourced the majority of the macrocarpa and redwood they used from nearby Tauriko Sawmill, and she trawled Marketplace for cacti and other plants to grow in pots from Bunnings and Mitre 10, some of which she rendered and repainted. They help set a scene she considers a mix of Mexico, Greece and Bali. They opted to lower the height of the wall enclosing the courtyard (which John built and Sjan rendered with Dulux AcraTex tinted to Dulux Mt Aspiring) as it makes its way behind the pergola (pictured overleaf), so it feels like they’re sitting among the trees. OPPOSITE They’re learning something every day out here. “We didn’t realise what amazing mature trees we had until they started fruiting or people told us what they were!” exclaims Sjan. “We thought the tree on our front lawn was dying until summer came around and it provided us with fantastic shade!” Through the door frame, you can see their Wanaka fire pit by Bray Design, a hotspot where Sjan says they enjoy after-dinner drinks and have “toasted/burnt way too many marshmallows”.

homest yle 75

THIS PAGE Anchoring the courtyard is a table crafted

by JG Custom Fabrication & Welding, surrounded by chairs from Bunnings and a bench seat from Flux Boutique. OPPOSITE Against a backdrop of mature tī kōuka/cabbage trees, pōhutukawa and pūriri, a wisteria vine is gradually climbing up the cedar pergola and will provide shade and scent as it grows.

76 homest yle

HOMES

“Having established trees and gardens is a game-changer.”

homest yle 7 7

ABOVE In keeping with Sjan’s preference for matte over shiny, the Elysian tapware from ABI Interiors in the bathroom is in brushed nickel. It feeds into a concrete basin generously donated to the couple by their plumber (who had it left over from another job) atop a Tasmanian blackwood vanity also made

by John Blair of Happy Sunday. The visual interest of the original lace moulding around the windows has been switched for textured tiles, including Brera Off White mosaics from Tile Space on the nib wall and Boston Lavagna subways in the shower. The mirror is from Freedom and the pendant light is from Mr Ralph. Sjan says she never has time to use the bath from Trade Depot herself.

“Unfortunately, it’s just been for the kids. With floor-to-ceiling tiles, a rain head and a large window, having long showers in the space we created feels pretty lush, though — when my toddler isn’t standing at the doorway asking for Cocomelon.” RIGHT A banner, bunting and canvas bed cover from Pony Rider are among the carefully curated items in Frankie’s room. “When she wakes up in the morning and we pull back the curtain, there are often rabbits outside,” says Sjan of this enchanting space. “Luka’s a hunting dog, but he just doesn’t care!”

78 homest yle

HOMES

MAIN BEDROOM John’s handcrafted macrocarpa headboards add depth and character to all of the sleep spaces, which are painted in Dulux Waitangi. “Beige with a little green, it brings in warmth while keeping the look clean,” says Sjan. The couple’s Derwent lights by Oriel Lighting are from The Lighting Outlet NZ, the Arvid bedside tables are from Fraser Country, the bed linen is from In Bed, Adairs and Farmers, the Dawn Ranger blanket is from Pony Rider, the Axel rug is from Nood and the Joe love seat is by MCM House from St Clements. New French doors provide direct access to the lawn and that view, over the Kaimais in the west, to Waihī in the north and the Mount in the east. “Sunsets are amazing here and at night the whole outlook glows,” says Sjan. “It makes those 3am feeds a bit more enjoyable — it’s like the entire town’s up with me.”

homest yle 79

That ’ s the tr ick Simultaneously small and big was part of the brief for this renovation.

How hard could it be?

WO RDS Claire M c C all

PH OTO G R APHY Dunc an Innes

ST YLIN G Sam van Kan & Studio Studio

THE PROJECT Architect Belinda George and interior designers Maria Diaz Valentin and Sebastian Negri of StudioStudio renovated this three-bedroom home in Westmere, Auckland, for its owner and her son (5).

82 homest yle

HOMES

LEFT A second front door tucked down a pathway at the side of the house provides direct access to a new entry hall and the extension. It features the same trio of slot windows as the original front door, which still exists.

ABOVE Board-and-batten cladding on the extension ties in with the existing weatherboard in a same-same-but-different way. OPPOSITE The homeowner loves to enjoy her morning cuppa on the deck in the back garden, seated on a C317 chair by Feelgood Designs around a Livorno Boulder coffee table from Soren Liv. In the background is an Ossa dining table from Soren Liv and All Plastic chairs by Vitra.

E

veryone knows that renovating a character home — such as this one built in the ’30s — is like opening a box of chocolates. In Forrest Gump style, you never know what you’re gonna get.

Forrest’s momma was wise in this respect: once the lid came off this Westmere property, there was a selection of surprises inside. The roof itself needed replacing, the insulation was shot, the exposed ceiling beams had done their dash, and many of the kauri floorboards had moved past characterful to downright dangerous.

“In the initial couple of weeks when parts of the house were being demolished, I thought, ‘What have I done?!’” recalls the Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland owner. “It was emotional to let go of the old.” But then, once building started, a bit like childbirth, all was forgotten.

Architect Belinda George shared her client’s love of heritage. “I have a thing about the urban fabric of long-established suburbs being destroyed,” she says. Although the two-bedroom home was “tiny and typical”, it was important to preserve the narrative of the neighbourhood.

That meant disguising any substantial renovation from the street.

One change on the north-facing frontage they did consider was to add a carport. That cost became prohibitive (ever tried getting a power pole moved?), so they opted to wait for the council’s own undergrounding project instead.

The owner’s brief to Belinda was based on happy memories. “I grew up on a quarter-acre section — a house with a yard was what my childhood was about,” she says. She wanted her son to be able to kick a ball around. She wanted >

homest yle 83

KITCHEN & DINING Built by Marton Lee, the kitchen is anchored by an island capped with Taj Mahal stone that continues in the rear bench and splashback. Interior designers StudioStudio collaborated with Tim Webber to create a customised triple version of his Dowel pendant light to hang above it, while a lenticular Flamingo pendant light by Vibia is suspended opposite, over the Bok dining table from Soren Liv with Peggy chairs by Feelgood Designs from Backhouse and CH24 Wishbone chairs by Carl Hansen & Son, accentuating the volume of this open-plan space. Curated touches of colour here include the blue of the Opal Teal Frit bowl on the table and Tall Cloud vase (filled with an arrangement by Isadia) on the island, and topaz in the Smooth carafe and cups on the island, all by Monmouth Glass Studio. Also on the table is a vase by Walk In The Park from Tessuti.

84 homest yle

HOMES

“Height and volume are the main joys in this project.”

homest yle 85

LEFT Sliding doors connect the living room seamlessly to the deck, allowing the homeowner far better access to the garden than she previously had. Revolver stools by Hay tucked under the island reflect the grey tone of the cabinetry (with Kimera handles from Katalog) on the rear wall of the kitchen, and are also a well-balanced counterpoint colour-wise for the clay-toned vases by Thea Ceramics on the bench and the Buddy tapware

by Progetto from Plumbline. The flooring throughout the main areas of the home is demolition mataī timber chosen to match the existing kauri floorboards. Under the table, the scheme is softened by a rug

by Armadillo from The Ivy House.

a dog. “I didn’t want a great big house with no land. I wanted it to function well for us but also to feel a bit bachy and intimate — so small and big at the same time. If that makes sense?”

To Belinda, it did. She set about the illogical challenge with enthusiasm. With a swipe of her hand, she had the dysfunctional lean-to demolished, then knitted two extensions into the original. Not that you’d immediately realise.

Driving by, the curious might discern the peak of an extra half-gable roofline behind the bungalow.

The canny might spot a second ‘front’ door. A new entry hall now runs along the western elevation; in anticipation of that future carport, it’s accessed by its own door, a facsimile of the bungalow’s.

This hall contains a laundry and lots of cupboards.

“That’s another typical original ‘feature’ of character homes,” says Belinda. “No storage.”

86 homest yle

Of course, genuine character details were kept or reinstated. The existing front door with its three angular slot windows was rebuilt. In the bedrooms, exposed ceiling beams were copied, and the leadlights retained. The single bathroom was given a makeover, but a separate loo added so no one’s inconvenienced by long, hot showers.

A third flexi room — for TV-watching, playing with Lego, office work or an extra bedroom — was slivered into the footprint and has all the bases covered.

But it’s the expansive new living zone that now connects to the back garden that grabs the limelight. With ceilings that stretch up to over 5m, it feels like freedom. Light spills in through clerestory windows on the eastern and northern sides, and sliding doors access a wraparound deck. “Height and volume >

HOMES

“It keeps the form pure. In architecture, I love dominant forms to be unobstructed.”

ABOVE It was important to the homeowner, who grew up with a big backyard, that the extension didn’t encroach too much on her patch of lawn and the property’s existing trees. The extension’s layout is also a reflection of a typical cottage floorplan, with the new entry hall starting at the second front door and leading all the way past the galleystyle kitchen to the rear garden.

RIGHT Light is let in through a bank of narrow clerestory windows, leaving a trail of shadow stitches on the wall. Layered textures offset the structural elements here, including an Arcade sofa by Simon James and heavy linen curtains in fabric from the Estiva collection by Hemptech.

homest yle 87

88 homest yle

HOMES

ABOVE & LEFT A Spindle bench seat by Ethnicraft from Soren Liv sits near the new entry hall, which acts as a mudroom opposite the laundry — a practical place in which to put down your bag (in this case an Eco tote by Mimmi Terra from Father Rabbit) and take off your shoes before entering the main living zone. Belinda added extra storage here in the form of tall cupboards, since the original cottage was lacking in that department. OPPOSITE Designed by StudioStudio and crafted by Saintleo to wrap around a built-in gas fireplace, the living space’s shelving unit was intended not for a TV (which is relegated to the flexi room) but to display objects including (on the third shelf) a Gourd vase by Monmouth Glass Studio (left) and Maquette 01 sculpture

by Gidon Bing. The custom coffee table was made by Fieldcraft.

are the main joys in this project: it’s what we celebrate,” says Belinda.

Viewed from the exterior, weatherboard still clads the original section, but this addition is in white board-and-batten and is double skinned, meaning gutters, downpipes and even the gas water heater are hidden. “It keeps the form pure,” says Belinda. “In architecture, I love dominant forms to be unobstructed.”

Within the simple, striking geometry, the open-plan kitchen, living and dining space is cosy and homely. Friends of friends, interior designers Maria Diaz Valentin and Sebastian Negri of StudioStudio, were initially enlisted to help with the lighting. It turned into a bit more than that.

The owner admits she’s not a visual person so appreciated their help to select colours,

tiles and other items to personalise the rooms. Sticking to natural materials was a grounding principle to ensure the choices were more timeless.

The kitchen island, originally envisioned as sage green, is clad in ocean-blue tongue-andgroove panels, a block of boldness that makes the room family-friendly. With warm, creamy tones and an exotic grain, the granite benchtops are subtly sophisticated, and aged brass tapware here and in the bathrooms is fittingly nostalgic.

Of a morning, when the early light streams through the leadlight windows, this space is a joyful place for coffee. The owner throws open the doors to the sound of tūī in the trees. While she may have fallen in love with a bungalow, it’s just possible she loves its modernised character more.

homest yle 89

BEDROOM In the homeowner’s son’s space, in the original part of the house, all of the textiles are in natural fibres, including the linen and cotton cushions by Mulberi. The portable Setago lamp by &Tradition from Cult is intended to do double duty as a tool to facilitate spontaneous evening expeditions to the backyard — and Teddy can come too. On the walls is Resene Truffle.

90 homest yle

HOMES

bed robe

robe

bath

LEFT Country Mist Green tiles by Equipe from Tile Space set the scene in the bathroom for an Arc basin by Concrete Nation from Plumbline and a custom-made cabinet, on which objects including a soap dish by Misma Anaru from Everyday Needs, a bud vase by Monmouth Glass Studio and a Giacomo towel by Missoni Home from Tessuti are beautiful and practical.

BELOW Fun fact about the rose-tinted Framed mirror

by Muuto in the powder room: it makes your face look pleasantly tanned, as if you’ve just arrived home from a summer sojourn. A Josephine towel by Baina from Tessuti and a cake of soap by Sphaera from Everyday Needs are the perfect finishing touches in this space lined with Lumina Bubble tiles by FAP Ceramiche from Tile Space.

deck

bed

entry

dining robe

living

bed laundry

kitchen entry hall/ mudroom

homest yle 91

We g ot this Sometimes, opting to make the best of things can be an even more exciting prospect than starting over somewhere new.

WO RDS

PH OTO G R APHY

C atherine Ste el

David Straight

HOMES

O THE PROJECT Co-founder of Baina Bailey Meredith and her insurance broker husband Ali Williams renovated this two-bedroom home in Auckland’s Titirangi with architectural designer Zoe Fahey and landscape designer Jared Lockhart.

nce you’ve spent a bit of time with Bailey Meredith, you realise it’s a no-brainer that she’d have created a chic dwelling for herself and her husband Ali Williams in West Auckland. With a background in fashion, and with the towel brand, Baina, she co-founded stocking the shelves at big-name international outlets Liberty, Nordstrom and Goop, there’s seemingly little she touches that doesn’t become beautiful.

In the lush, bush-clad hills of Titirangi, Bailey and Ali’s two-bedroom, white-brick home is threaded with contemporary simplicity. Its interior fuses artwork, furniture and ceramics from near and far with a pared-back palette that calls to mind Californian cool. However, it wasn’t always so desirable.

Bailey and Ali were in their late twenties when they bought the house in 2013.

“We wanted to get on the property ladder but it was at a time when the market was getting crazy,” she says. “We’d view a house, and it’d be gone by the end of the day. We saw this one at 7pm one night in June. It was pitch black outside — you needed a wild imagination to see any potential in it.”

Inside, black carpet covered the floor, a wall enclosed the tiny kitchen, and a black feature wall dominated the living room, where the heavy drapes stunk of stale cigarette smoke and a modular leather sofa took up almost the whole space. “You had to climb over it to get to the kitchen,” says Bailey. Nevertheless, the couple weren’t about to let another home slip through their fingers, so because this purchase was a more accessible private sale, they went for it.

Within 24 hours of getting hold of the front-door key, Bailey pulled down those filthy curtains. “For the first six months, we lived with newspaper on all of the windows because we couldn’t afford to replace them,” she says. Ali was curious to see what was under the carpet and discovered polished floorboards after pulling it up. “They were yellow and shiny from the polyurethane, but they were in perfect condition,” says Bailey. “That was the start of uncovering what this house was.”

A move to Melbourne in 2017 saw Bailey take a job with Australian furniture brand Jardan and her and Ali rent out the house. Two years later, they were >

LEFT Ali, Bailey and Gruff the dog on their back deck designed by Jared Lockhart, with August chairs and an August side table by Serax from Simon James behind them. Bailey says they really enjoy living in Titirangi. “We love taking Gruff to Piha Beach, and being far enough from the city that it’s quiet, but close enough that I can whip in and meet a friend for a wine or a pilates class. It’s the perfect balance.”

94 homest yle

LIVING Bailey heeded the advice of a friend when it came to lighting. “She said that in a living room, you don’t actually need lots of ceiling lights, so we’ve used a Spar floor lamp by Jamie McLellan for Resident, a Semi pendant by Gubi and an Arch wall light by Snelling, but no downlights.” A Valley sofa by Jardan and Isabella chairs by Simon James gather around a vintage travertine coffee table, on a reworked vintage rug also from Jardan.

LIVING HBC Joinery made this wall unit, and the kitchen and bathroom cabinetry, providing craftsmanship that Bailey deems “amazing”. Arranged on top — in front of a framed photo of the couple on their wedding day and above Ali’s record collection — are decorative items including (from left) a timber bud vase by Walk In The Park, a vintage clay vase and a Hollow vase by Margi Nuttall. The couple painted these walls in Porter’s Paints Cashmere to lighten things up.

HOMES

There’s little she touches that doesn’t become beautiful.

ABOVE Archie the cat snoozes on the sofa — “My big investment purchase”, as Bailey calls this piece. The Offset stool used as a side table is by Philippe Malouin for Resident from Simon James. “The way Ali and I work is he might sit on the couch while I’m in the kitchen or I might sit at the dining table while he cooks dinner, but we’re in conversation,” says Bailey of their day-to-day at home. “That meant we wanted to create a nice flow in the living area. We didn’t like how locked away we were from each another in this tiny house before, and it was just unnecessary.”

RIGHT Linen curtains on a curved track provide privacy from the neighbours beside Shores II by Bohdan Burenko on the adjacent wall. The dining table and chairs below the Semi pendant by Gubi were sourced from Mr Bigglesworthy.

back in New Zealand. They explored the market in search of a bigger home, only to decide they couldn’t afford it and the size of this one would suit them just fine. “We thought, ‘Let’s make this house something cool.’”

The 102m2 dwelling’s front door greets you in a gorgeous glossy green before opening onto a foyer. On one side is an open-plan living, dining and kitchen space that’s in sync with a connecting deck. The two bedrooms, bathroom and laundry are on the other.

Opening up the living area to enhance its sense of space was key to reimagining this house, so the couple’s friend, architectural designer Zoe Fahey, helped reconfigure it. In a build led by Fortified Construction, the partition walls were removed, freeing the kitchen from its confines. The new kitchen is informed

by Scandinavian design. Neutral and clean-lined, it features walnut-veneer cabinetry that runs from floor to ceiling and below the stainless steel bench and splashback. Downlights rather than pendants were installed here so as not to draw undue attention to the low ceiling.

Removing the home’s back door extended the bathroom’s footprint. In terms of the décor in this space, Bailey kept it visually in line with the home’s overall palette. “We wanted the same materiality to flow through the entire house, so the bathroom’s white concrete bath blends with the ivory of the walls throughout, the walnut-veneer cabinetry mirrors that in the kitchen and the sage shower tiles reflect the green sofa.”

Continuing the minimalist feel outside, a deck extends from the dining zone’s bifold doors into the sloping garden. Cascading down the hill, the deck was on Bailey and Ali’s wish-list, and to master it, they reached out to landscape designer Jared Lockhart. Planter boxes at the edge of each level eliminate the need for balustrades, keeping the look open.

The last step of the renovation was painting the red-brick exterior white for that California vibe. The finished result is a testament to this couple, who have undoubtedly won the toss between searching for a larger dwelling and making the most of what they’ve got.

KITCHEN Floor-to-ceiling walnut-veneer cabinetry replaced a window in this generous but well-used space. “I always wanted stainless steel,” says Bailey about the utilitarian benchtop and splashback.

“We were set on a minimal look and didn’t want a join in the benchtop, so that was a challenge when it came to bringing in the L-shaped piece. Seven guys attempted to place it, but ended up having to cut some of the wall to get it in without disturbing the cabinetry!” Bailey kept the handles here to a minimum as well, using D Pulls

by Häfele only where strictly necessary.

The appliances are by Fisher and Paykel and Westinghouse, and the Elysian mixer is from ABI Interiors.

98 homest yle

Deciding this one would suit them just finE, “We thought, ‘Let’s make this house something cool.’”

homest yle 99

HOMES

BATHROOM Here, a leggy DuraStyle vanity by Durafit is teamed with Milani tapware from ABI Interiors. The ceramic wall and floor tiles from Artedomus have a matte finish that Bailey sought to sync with the look of the Oasis freestanding bath by Concrete Nation, and the walls are in Porter’s Paints Cashmere to match the other main rooms in the house. On the vanity and Grab 90 rails by Avenir from Plumbline are organic cotton towels by Bailey’s own luxury brand, Baina. Pictured right, a large, frosted-glass window opens like a door to provide maximum ventilation in this space. “In the morning, the sun streams in through it — it’s beautiful,” says Bailey.

ABOVE The main bedroom is painted with Porter’s Paints Gardenia. On the bed with linens by Deiji Studios is a Globe cushion by Klay. The Lens Block Lumen lamp is by Snelling. OPPOSITE “It’s easy to clutter up a deck with handrails and balustrades, but then it can look like a cage,” says Jared. “The idea here was to split the deck at different levels — lounging on one and dining on another — with steps in between.”

Planter boxes filled with low-maintenance plants (including herbs and citrus in close proximity to the kitchen) divide the space, removing the need for balustrades. Alongside all this, the front door is in Dulux Dark Rainforest; the exterior of the home is in Aalto Iota.

102 homest yle

HOMES

bed

living entry

robe

laundry

bed

kitchen bath dining

deck

,W·V ZRUWK OHDYLQJ \RXU FRPIRUW ]RQH WR GLVFRYHU QHZ LGHDV :K\" %HFDXVH WKDW·V ZKDW WKH IXWXUH GHPDQGV 7KH EHVW TXDOLW\ RI OLYLQJ UHTXLUHV FRQWLQXRXV GHYHORSPHQW VR ZH UHVHDUFK WKH FKDQJLQJ QHHGV RI FDELQHWU\ XVHUV WR FRPH XS ZLWK LQQRYDWLYH QHZ VROXWLRQV 2XU KDUGZDUH LV GHVLJQHG WR LPSURYH TXDOLW\ RI OLYLQJ 6R OHW¶V FUHDWH WKH IXWXUH WRJHWKHU #EOXPQHZ]HDODQG

EOXP FRP PRYLQJLGHDV

Design 106

Outside in

116

Interior experts

123

Woman in architecture

The interior design and furniture and object curation of this Ponsonby living space is by Studio 11:11, and includes a cork table from Mid Century Swag, a custom plaster fireplace surround by Limewave, an artwork by Grace Bader and a sofa from Simon James. Check out more of this home and find out more about Studio 11:11 on page 116.

homest yle 105

OH MAIMAI

In a word, wow. Here’s a home that honours heritage and place, yet is anything but what you’d expect.

106 homest yle

Outside in —— FIRST WINDOWS & DOORS

OPPOSITE The property’s surrounding mountains and position on the edge of a pond informed how the home came together as three buildings. “In a location like this, it’s really hard not to respond to that dramatic landscape,” says Andrew. Multiple types of timber were used for the build, including cedar panelling throughout, with various stains; a beam in the living space salvaged from a local bridge; and tonka beams with cedar sarking inside the maimai (far right).

F

WO RDS Alice Lines PH OTO G R APHY Sam H ar tnet t

rom afar, this trio of silhouettes huddled together beside a pond could be mistaken for agricultural buildings. On arrival, you learn that although they’re structurally similar to the humble forms of the local rural tradition, these buildings have been designed not for farming but for living.

In the Wakatipu Basin, you’ve got your pick of majestic mountain views. Christchurch-based AW Architects’ sights were set on framing moments within the landscape, rather than exposing all the scenery all the time. “The brief was pretty clear that it was not to be a big glass pavilion,” says principal Andrew Watson. “That was the big one, really, that it needed to be designed as a refuge within the rugged environment and of the place.

“The whole idea of the local vernacular sounds like a cliché in a Southern Lakes District context, but that’s the reality — this is where the clients grew up and this is their experience of the local architecture,” he continues.

So he and project architect Prue Johnstone (who was on the AW Architects team at the time) devised a plan that would gather together three forms rooted in agricultural aesthetics — two ‘sheds’ and a ‘maimai’ — each with a >

homest yle 107

ABOVE Metro Series ThermalHeart bifold doors from First Windows & Doors, with Icon stainless steel hardware, allow the home’s inhabitants to respond to the environmental extremes. In summer, they open them to cool down the living pavilion inside and put their living spaces outside to good use, then in winter, the doors’ additional thermal insulator stitched into the core of the aluminium window system works to keep things warm. LEFT APL Architectural Series bifold doors mirror the other side of the living pavilion. The large artwork on the wall here (and seen opposite) is Dasneue Custsmuseum by Michael Morley. BELOW A breakfast bar sits next to the kitchen and near an APL Architectural Series custom servery window from First Windows & Doors that creates a lovely little link to the outdoors. On the wall to the right is Self-Portrait by Jeffrey Harris.

distinct purpose. The home’s main door is set deliberately deep into the first (guest) pavilion, which houses the guest quarters, the laundry and the garage. Beyond this, a ribbon of in-situ concrete runs through the house, leading you through a glazed walkway of Metro Series custom windows from First Windows & Doors to the second (living) pavilion.

“The challenging thing about creating three quite distinct pavilions is — for me, anyway — that you want to arrive into the heart of the house, which in my mind is the kitchen, without transferring past everyone’s bedrooms and the bathroom,” says Andrew. “The concrete that runs through this house drags you from the front entrance and swiftly gets you to the kitchen, without realising that you’ve been through half of the house already. It was a bit of a trick, really.”

The domestic journey continues through another glazed walkway connecting the public sheds with the private zone of the home — the maimai, as it’s known. Much like its namesake, this space has been designed to cling to the lake’s edge, but with a few more creature comforts than birdwatchers and duck hunters would usually expect!

Here in the main bedroom and adjoining bathroom, the concrete theme continues with a Thermomass wall that >

108 homest yle

Outside in—— FIRST WINDOWS & DOORS

These buildings have been designed not for farming but for living.

LIVING “We wanted a thermally broken suite, and we use Metro Series ThermalHeart on most of our projects,” says Andrew of the joinery. “[For the guest pavilion], it met all the design considerations in terms of wind loading, then in this living pavilion, we moved to the APL Architectural Series for a little more height in the window profiles. The two suites work really well together. “

homest yle 109

LIVING Surrounded by a concrete hearth poured in-situ at seat height, the fireplace was custommade from black steel that was waxed to retain the grain and bluey hue of the raw sheet.

Overhead, the grooved ceiling contributes extra texture, while underfoot, the polishedand exposed-concrete flooring created using local gravels offers interesting flashes of colour that make it appear almost terrazzo-like.

110 homest yle

Outside in —— FIRST WINDOWS & DOORS

ABOVE To accentuate the sharp edges of the guest pavilion, the gutters are hidden behind the steel cladding. Eyebrow-like sunshades around the windows continue the minimalist look while casting eye-catching shadows. RIGHT & BELOW Scaled to match the width of the jetty jutting into the pond, the glazed links crafted from Metro Series custom windows provide a sense of journeying from one building to another. “We wanted them to be intimately detailed, and the way the timber connects to the steel column and the black anodised joinery was a big part of that,” says Andrew. “People really respond to the sensory experience.” The artworks pictured right are Remembrance

by Max Gimblett, and below is a light box by Michael Parekōwhai.

reaches out to a covered alcove connected through glazed stacker sliding doors from First Windows & Doors. Set into a rolling hillock and shrouded in naturally weathering timber and Corten steel, it really makes you feel as if you’re at one with the landscape; it’s a true escape in which the owners can enjoy their own private view of the serene scene beyond.

In contrast, the sheds stand proud against the rugged ridgeline. Deceptively simple in form, each is given its own character through meticulous detailing. The living pavilion is clad in black cedar, selected for its warmth and tactility to reflect the communal goings-on in this shed, where family time unfolds in the kitchen, dining and living areas. Here, Metro Series ThermalHeart bifolds can be flung open to let the easy living continue out into the enclosed courtyard, which is sheltered from the elements by the pavilions it sits between, along with a series of stacked timber shutters to the west, which pivot to protect the space from the prevailing winds.

“This outdoor area is the main entertaining space,” says Andrew. “You’ve got a nice big outdoor fire that’s back-toback with the inside fire, and when you open up the screens >

homest yle 111

LEFT Behind the main bedroom in the maimai, this luxurious bathroom is another space that delights the senses. On the wall is corrugated iron artwork Weaving by Jeff Thomson. BELOW Nifty sleep spaces in the loft above the garage provide a fresh take on the bunkroom concept. “We love creating houses that have lots of nooks and crannies that you can engage with others in — or not,” says Andrew.

OPPOSITE In contrast to the more open kitchen, dining and lounge area, the library in the living pavilion is an introspective spot with more diminutive awning windows, above which hangs 15 Drawings

by Colin McCahon. Working with interior designer Kay Gray, the homeowners opted for a cocooning material palette, part of which is the black-stained cedar that continues in from the exterior. “In the minor spaces, it’s all about your sight lines to the view,” says Andrew.

“You can connect with the outdoors by walking all the way up [to the window], or you can sit back and get a sense of it as a backdrop to life.”

to engage with the landscape, it’s a pretty amazing setting, but it can be shut down to be more intimate too.”

Rounding out the trio, the galvanised steel covering the guest pavilion has the most utilitarian appeal of all. The matte grey cladding is punctuated with ribbed detailing, and sharp insertions surrounding silver anodised picture windows further emphasise the play on light and shadow.

“They work in a couple of ways: with the modulation on the main form, as it’s quite a solid structure, and to create an ‘eyebrow’ to help with sunshade for the interiors as well,” says Andrew. “The way they tie in with the ribs has all been worked out to get the sharp shadows. The interplay of light is a really special way to amp up the mood — and almost highlight the solidity, in a way.

“Having a house that you can shut down — turning parts on, turning parts off to respond to your needs — has been a real success here,” he continues. Functioning together and apart, with the ability to host two or even 20 family members and friends, this is a rural idyll that’s strongly evocative of days gone by, yet sitting firmly in the present. firstwindows.co.nz

112 homest yle

Outside in —— FIRST WINDOWS & DOORS

homest yle 113

dec

GROUND FLOOR

k

li v in

g

d in in

ga

FIRST FLOOR

ra

g

ge

ensuite

k it c

n

hen

lau

y dr

ro be

d

s c u ll

be

ery

be

en

bed

d

try

li b r a t ba

ry

h

be

dec

d

k

ro be de

ck

LEFT At this home of contrasts, the gabled roof of the living pavilion gives way to the asymmetrical form of the maimai, which almost twists in on itself to create a secluded space separate to the other structures.

Hard landscaping forms outdoor living zones between and around the buildings, utilising the site to its full potential. At the water’s edge, a rendered concrete wall guards a fire pit. OPPOSITE Here, a Metro Series ThermalHeart sliding door with colour-matched Urbo hardware lets the outside in. “With the lake and the small hill beside it, the idea with the maimai was to use that mound as much as possible to hunker down into the landscape,” says Andrew.

“A real focus on this project was directing the spaces so you could orientate out of the wind, into the wind, into the sun, out of the sun, and have myriad different spots around the plan to be comfortable in.”

114 homest yle

Outside in —— FIRST WINDOWS & DOORS

“Having a house that you can shut down to respond to your needs has been a real success.”

homest yle 115

INTO DETAIL The transtasman talents behind Studio 11:11 are committed to creating beautiful spaces and crafting or sourcing the perfect pieces for them. We were committed to finding out more.

INTERVIE W Alice Lines PH OTO G R APHY James K Lowe

116 homest yle

Interior experts —— DESIGN

K

iwi architect and interior designer Annabel Smart and Netherlands-born interior architect Marijne Vogel are Studio 11:11, a design studio that explores the boundaries between interior architecture, objects and leathergoods.

Having starting their business as a leathergoods label in Melbourne in 2014, they picked back up where their formal training left off, and today their work also encompasses architectural design, interior styling, and furniture and object design — plus they stock a collection of vintage designer lights they source from Europe. Annabel recently moved home to Aotearoa, where we had a few questions for her, like: Does Studio 11:11 have a signature aesthetic? Rather than strive for a

signature aesthetic, we’re more dedicated to our brand ethos. No matter the output, what defines every 11:11 project are the notions of functionality, simplicity and craftsmanship. We aim to design spaces that have longevity and sensitivity in mind, and hope that they become a canvas for inspired and happy living.

What’s your design approach at the outset of a new project? Every project starts with the briefing stage, which involves us researching and learning about who our clients are, how they live and work, and what their values and beliefs are. We also do a deep dive into the site or context we’re working with — its history, weather patterns, neighbours… All of these factors eventually knit together to form our conceptual direction. >

ABOVE RIGHT Annabel (left) says our collective experience in the past couple of years has altered her design perspective in that she thinks “it has amplified the need for our spaces to be adaptable, so that we can successfully work, play, exercise and relax at home. Also, now more than ever, our homes are our sanctuary and need to provide a sense of safety and comfort.” ABOVE LEFT The living space at Studio 11:11’s Northcote Point Residence. “This is a softly lit room where the adults can take a quiet moment to appreciate some unique pieces of furniture and art,” says Annabel.

homest yle 117

A current project of yours that we love is the interior design of a home in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland’s Northcote Point — what mood were you aiming to create with that? Our clients had recently moved back to New Zealand after living overseas for some time, so the importance was placed on creating a home for their young family to easily settle into. To bring a familiar and timeless feel to the spaces, we curated a selection of vintage and antique furnishings teamed with modern design classics. Our intention was to provide them with rooms that had a sense of tranquillity and comfort, so we used a natural, earthy, textural palette to give that feeling of authenticity.

It’s cool that someone can engage you to set them on the right course, then take their next steps alone or come back

118 homest yle

to you at a later stage… We wish it would happen more often! New Zealanders seem to view interior design as a service reserved for high-end luxury, and it really shouldn’t be. We tailor our scope and fees to suit each client and are happy to be involved just as high-level consultants.

A current project in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs is a perfect example.

Our client approached us to assist with the conceptual direction of the architectural design and interiors of their family home.

As the project progresses, we’re involved in on-site queries to assist them and the trades on an ‘as needed’ basis.

What’s your approach when you’re commissioned for full-scale renovations, like the Ponsonby house also pictured on these pages? That project started out as a bit of guidance for the clients’ nursery, >

ABOVE LEFT The Northcote Point Residence features a dining table

by Matakana makers WRW & Co and Cono chairs by Melbourne’s Inventory

by Rachel Donath. ABOVE RIGHT This chic vignette in the Northcote Point Residence is formed with Niche plinths by homestyle Editions, dried flowers

by Mark Antonia in a vase by Julie Cromwell from Sanderson Contemporary gallery, and a vintage lamp by Ignazio Gardella from Annabel and Marijne’s Collectibles 11:11 range.

Interior experts —— DESIGN

“We aim to design spaces that have longevity and sensitivity in mind.”

Textural and sculptural details also found in the Northcote Point Residence: TOP LEFT A John Pawson mohair blanket by Tekla from Simon James with a modular sofa from Soren Liv. TOP RIGHT A kānuka fruit bowl by Peter Edmonds from Public Record atop a marble coffee table from Soren Liv. BOTTOM LEFT Artwork by Ray Haydon from Sanderson Contemporary. BOTTOM RIGHT A Classicon Roattino lamp by Eileen Grey from Matisse. What tips does Annabel have for anyone who might be moving house or want to make a change at their current home? “Before you commit to buying something, try collaging images of items on a page to make sure they all work together and, if you can, take home samples to test out in your space before you buy.”

homest yle 119

THIS PAGE Included in the dining room at Studio 11:11’s Summer House in Ponsonby are a Knitterling pendant by Ingo Maurer from ECC, a Scape bowl by Ferm Living from Slow, a dining table from Simon James and chairs from Dawson & Co. “For a homely, timeless space, we chose a combination of natural materials, like oak, metal, leather and linen.”

120 homest yle

Interior experts —— DESIGN

ABOVE The moody main bedroom (left, and living space, right) in the Summer House, with a bespoke headboard and Turn Pendant 02 light by Snelling. When asked what she predicts is ahead for interiors, Annabel says, “There seems to be a return to bright, playful colours, layered patterns, and chunky, bold forms. In my opinion, this can be risky territory. Our approach with colour is usually a subtle one. We’re more interested in non-obvious applications that highlight the natural properties of the materials in a space, and complement the changing qualities of light throughout the day and year.”

because they were expecting a baby, but when the pandemic hit New Zealand, their home office became a focus as well.

We then moved onto furniture, art and lighting selections for the remaining rooms, and designed the living room joinery. Most of the house was kept light, neutral and soft-toned, apart from the main bedroom upstairs, where it felt appropriate to go darker for a more subdued feeling.

of today’s architecture and design is produced under the consideration of only one sense, sight, and that by neglecting the other four sensory realms, we’ve lost the emphasis on the spatial experience of a building and architecture’s ability to inspire and enhance our lives.

We’ve also been revisiting the Arts & Crafts movement — the mid-19th century push-back against industrial production and the honouring of traditional craftsmanship.

What’s on your reading/viewing/ listening/learning list? British designer Faye Toogood’s Assemblage 6: Unlearning — it’s a beautiful book to flick through that documents her journey of disrupting traditional ways of thinking and making.

Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa’s The Eyes of the Skin — a book on architecture and the senses. Juhani argues that much

What’s coming up for Studio 11:11 in 2022?

We have some exciting projects in New Zealand and Australia that we’re looking forward to sharing; in the mix is more residential work, office fit-outs and a barn conversion. We’re also looking forward to transtasman travel opening back up, so our team can be reunited! studio-11-11.com

homest yle 121

Woman in architecture —— DESIGN

MAKING HER

MARK

In the tradition of our Architecture+Women NZ series, Beth Cameron is helping to improve the world we’re living in one project at a time.

WO RDS Philippa Prentice

homest yle 123

BELOW Beth and Makers take on a range of projects, with the intention of being involved from design conception to build completion.

“This has resulted in residential builds and developments, as well as a few special vineyard tasting rooms and some beautiful fit-outs,” she says. “We always focus on spatial quality; use natural, healthy, sustainable materials where possible; and maintain simple forms and efficient planning with strong connections to the surrounding environment.” Pictured left, on the previous page and opposite (top) is Beth and Jae’s own home, Beach Forest House, in Island Bay. “Building our home was a huge milestone personally and an invaluable insight into the journey our clients experience,” she says.

Has it delivered on those dreams so far, Beth? The journey has been one of growth, challenge, exploration and constant research — to be honest, it’s exceeded what I thought was possible. I feel incredibly lucky that it’s provided so many opportunities, and introduced me to so many incredible people and places.

What have you been up to since you graduated from Victoria University with a Master of Architecture in 2012? Initially, I wasn’t confident enough to pursue architecture. I enjoyed many areas of design, so I found myself exploring and dabbling in branding, product design and academia before naturally, if unintentionally, falling into becoming part of Makers [Makers of Architecture, the Pōneke/ Wellington practice she co-founded with three 124 homest yle

friends, including her now husband, Jae Warrander, pictured on the previous page].

You’re also co-founder of prefab construction company Makers Fabrication. What does each contribute to the world? The two companies evolved from a desire to bring the architectural and construction environments closer together, allowing for feedback, collaboration and innovation through engaging with technological design efficiencies. We want custom, environmentally responsive architecture to become more attainable, while being built more efficiently and sustainably.

Ultimately, we want to create environments that better the environment.

Do you work across both companies? My primary role sits within the Makers of Architecture design team, but we’re one big Makers group, and work closely with the construction and joinery teams throughout design and through to construction completion. We enjoy working collectively to achieve a special result.

What’s awesome and tricky about having your own business? I’m incredibly lucky to work alongside >

Photography: Sam Norton (portrait), Thomas Seear-Budd (Beach Forest House) and Patrick Reynolds (Warrander Studio)

Growing up in Heratini/Geraldine, South Canterbury, Beth Cameron was profoundly affected by her parents’ interest in architecture, and their design and build of their family home and garden. It shaped her perception of what’s possible in terms of creating environments, and turned the kid who was always making (with paper and cellotape her preferred media) towards architecture as a career.

Woman in architecture —— DESIGN

“For inspiration, I look to nature, people, art, architecture — all that surrounds us and how it’s come to be.”

ABOVE LEFT & RIGHT In Ōhinetahi/Governor’s Bay, Makers of Architecture’s innovative residential project Warrander Studio is Aotearoa’s first full CLT (cross-laminated timber) home designed and fabricated using BIM (building information modelling) and CNC (computer numerical control) precision manufacturing technologies.

The use of this tech allowed the home to be assembled in just three days and clad with a plywood-based system they developed themselves. Beth says Makers’ practice “is all about sharing, learning and developing great design together, which means there’s a shared sense of ownership and responsibility. It’s wonderful to work with such an engaged team and share this journey. It also allows everyone to learn, improve and inspire one another, which is really important to us.”

homest yle 125

LEFT Warrander Studio. BELOW The tasting room Makers of Architecture designed for Wharekaka/Martinborough winery On Giants’ Shoulders, which was assembled as a complete building by Makers Fabrication, transported to the site, then lifted onto pre-installed foundations.

When asked what architecture has to teach us all about life, Beth says, “It facilitates and can elevate life in many imperceptible ways, particularly health and wellbeing.

It has the potential to connect people and place in fundamental ways, grounding and elevating our experiences on a daily basis.

Architecture can be so simple in its deliverables and elemental when broken down: the need for shelter, protection, security, comfort, support and delight.“

my husband in our design studio — it’s a privilege to be able to support one another with a deep understanding of what we’re tackling and experiencing together. It means our work and personal lives are intertwined, but that works for us — in many ways, it’s our lifestyle choice. Running the practice comes with a huge amount of responsibility, care and investment, not only for our clients, but also for our Makers team. That’s something I enjoy, but it also takes energy and attention.

Have you encountered any barriers to women succeeding in this traditionally male-dominated profession? At Makers, we’ve been in the position to create a gender-balanced design team. Diversity is so important in practice and for design, so it’s nice to be able to support this in our workplace. There are occasional barriers, but I feel like it’s becoming less acceptable, and where possible we avoid working with or encountering those who present gendered bias.

What aspects of a project do you find the most satisfying? I really enjoy client engagement and the conceptual design phase, and the other end of a project too, where the finer specifications and detailing are undertaken. This is where the design can be felt, touched and interacted with.

126 homest yle

What are your three most indispensable tools of the trade? Good communication — the key to any successful project. Butter paper, for prolific sketch iterations and design thinking — I love its opacity and gentleness when working with it. And observation and intuition — being a quiet observer, taking time to absorb and interpret where I am and what the opportunities and challenges present.

What helps you arrive at your desk refreshed? Jae and I are lucky to live close to the beach, so I enjoy evening walks along the coast, exploring the rockpools and watching the last of the sun colour the water and sky.

What excites you about where architecture’s heading in Aotearoa? With the increase in density planning and fewer requirements for off-street parking, there’s a shift around how land use can be perceived and the opportunities it provides. Provided robust public transport networks are achieved, this is exciting, as it offers up under-utilised or unrealised space for living and architectural diversity. These little spaces could provide a finely grained infill typology that brings a new dynamic to communities and the definition of dwelling identity. makers.co.nz; architecturewomen.org.nz

Dreaming about building or renovating? i g?

Interesting builds, bespoke concepts, unique materials, challenging terrain – our organisation of builders can make it happen. For a one-of-a-kind build to the highest standard, NZCB builders are here to build a special relationship with you. This means they put their heart and soul into your job and offer the finest craftsmanship.

WAVE25775

If you want special, you need a specialist.

Find yours at nzcb.nz

BOCONCEPT —— Interior design

PLUMBLINE —— Bathrooms

CORCOVADO —— Interiors

BoConcept are experts at making design, furniture and colour come together in your home. If you need someone to bounce ideas off, their interior decorators are on hand to help you complete any scheme — single rooms, small apartments, big houses or corporate spaces. Book a free consultation with one of BoConcept’s interior decorators today.

Plumbline’s range of contemporary and traditional bathroom and kitchen products is carefully selected for their enduring quality, exceptional design and outstanding value. With one of the most extensive bathroom collections in New Zealand, it’s your one-stop destination for your bathroom or kitchen project. Visit a Plumbline showroom or the website for the latest ideas.

Corcovado’s Swiss armchair is now available in a new shade, Copper. Designed by Corcovado, the cushions are made in New Zealand from 100% Belgian linen and commercial-grade foam, wrapped for softness to create the right level of comfort and support. Sustainably sourced, the frame’s teak timber ensures each piece has its own unique grain, warmth and beauty.

plumbline.co.nz

corcovado.co.nz

FRENCH COUNTRY COLLECTIONS —— Homeware

GODFREY HIRST —— Flooring

info@boconcept.co.nz boconcept.co.nz

BLUM —— Hardware Blum’s newest destination for storage inspiration is in Christchurch, at 16 Avenger Crescent, Wigram. Featuring high-tech, sustainable designs and materials, it’s an innovative space where South Island customers can experience how creative interior design can be implemented throughout the home in the form of high-quality fittings. Come and see for yourself.

blum.com

128 homest yle

A love of collecting and bringing homes to life has been at the heart of French Country Collections for more than 30 years. Experience their latest range, The Summer House, in their new store now open at 34 Morrow Street, Newmarket, Auckland.

Godfrey Hirst believe the quintessential easygoing Kiwi lifestyle should resonate in our interiors. They’ve built a reputation as one of New Zealand’s premier carpet manufacturers and hard-flooring distributors through consistently providing consumers with innovative, high-quality and stylish floor-covering solutions.

frenchcountry.co.nz

godfreyhirst.com

CATALOG

GOOD FORM —— Interiors

THREAD DESIGN —— Interiors

FELTEX —— Carpet

Fusing Japanese minimalism with the purity of Scandinavian design, the Karimoku Case Study collections display a love for material richness, serene beauty and timeless appeal. Check them out at Good Form.

Bring the natural beauty of coastal scenery into your home with Thread Design’s Abel Tasman collection of throws, cushions and tea towels. With muted blue tones and a distinctive landscape design, it’s designed to evoke a serene atmosphere.

Synonymous with style, luxury and integrity, Feltex design for and are inspired by New Zealand. As leading manufacturers of the finest carpet, they set the benchmark for quality in wool and wool-blend options.

When you choose a Feltex carpet, you can rely on almost 100 years of manufacturing experience and expertise.

goodform.co.nz

threaddesign.co.nz

feltex.com

NOHO —— Seating

FREEDOM —— Furniture & homeware

HOMESTYLE —— Content creation

Sit healthier with Noho Move, an everyday chair that brings a new level of comfort through dynamic and earth-friendly design — perfect for family meals at the dining table, relaxing with friends and working from home. Made in Aotearoa New Zealand from upcycled plastic waste, this chair’s revolutionary design encourages correct posture and ergonomic comfort. Get 10% off at checkout with the code ‘HOMESTYLE10’.

Work from the bottom up! Lay down a rug to define a space and add another layer of comfort to your home. Colourful or muted, shaggy or low pile, Freedom’s range of floor rugs add that little something extra for effortless curated style.

At homestyle, we’re specialists in working with brands to create innovative, integrated, bespoke home and lifestyle content. From initial concept to polished finish, our clients benefit from our in-depth understanding of these categories, and our expert design, styling and editorial advice. Gain exposure across multiple channels, including print and online. Get in touch to learn how to further the reach of your next campaign.

noho.co

freedomfurniture.co.nz

09 300 7544 nick@homestyle.co.nz

If you’d like your business to be featured in the homestyle Catalog, please email us at advertising@homestyle.co.nz. homest yle 129

Subscribe

Exceptional interiors inspiration dispatched directly to your door.

Subscribe and get a year of homestyle (six issues) for only $51. You’ll receive your copies hot off the press and save $18 — that’s 26% off the cover price.

Head to homestyle.co.nz or phone 0800 246 637.

SPECIAL OFFER

TERMS & CONDITIONS This subscribe-and-save offer is valid for new and renewing subscription orders received before April 8, 2022. It’s available only for subscriptions delivered within New Zealand. International pricing is available — see homestyle.co.nz. Please allow up to eight weeks for the delivery of your first magazine. For any subscription queries, missing issues or changes of address, call 0800 246 637.

130 homest yle

Lighting and Objects

Ponsonby, Auckland goodform.co.nz

Stoff Nagel

15 Williamson Ave,

Stoff Nagel Candle Holders in Brass

Designed by Werner Stoff & Hans Nagel

Designer Furniture,

7 5 8 6 7 < 2 8 5 1 $ 7 8 5 $ / ,167,1&76

bremworth.co.nz