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‘Back to normal’ is a phrase I’ve been trying not to use for the past couple of months. For all intents and purposes, most elements of my life resemble what came before the pandemic, but the ‘normal’ of this busyness as usual hadn’t been serving me o

The Serif TV’s state-of-the-art tech is amazing, but train your eyes on those good looks. In collaboration with Samsung, acclaimed creatives Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec took a 360-degree approach to its capital i-shaped profile and slim frame, so it l

Rowena, living in her caravan with various added tarpaulins and sheds, told me about being a Wiccan. I thought the skull and crossbones flag in her garden was part of this, but no. I’m really just a pirate, she said. And so it goes in this tremendou

If we can learn anything from the fantastic fit-out of this London office, spread over three floors of an 18th-century warehouse, it’s that fortune favours the brave. Design studio Daytrip took notes from the vintage optimism of 1950s ads marketing k

And now, for our next trick, we’re very proud to present homestyle Editions, a selection of pieces we’ve dreamed up for your interior in collaboration with local craftspeople. For our launch collection — available exclusively on our new online platfo

On our journey to designing a home that’s good for us, reflecting our style while providing comfort, we’re always aiming to devise an interior scheme that satisfies more of our senses than simply sight. Do you ever stop to think about how you want yo

With SmartDrive™ electronic feedback adjusting the action, there are fewer moving parts in the 12kg ActiveIntelligence™ Front Loader washing machine, for reliable, efficient and quiet operation. It’s designed to match the Fisher & Paykel 9kg Heat Pum

- Stripes are a tried-and-tested pattern that never goes out of style — and talk about impactful. Keep the look chic, not dizzying, by confining them to a distinct area, pairing them with mainly monochrome furniture and homeware, and choosing classic

Half of design duo Harris Tapper (with her friend Lauren Tapper), Sarah Harris Gould lives in Grey Lynn, Auckland, in the home she renovated with her husband, Harry. She says what she loves most about their new spaces is more of a feeling than someth

Homestyle art director Juliette Wanty lives in Parnell, Auckland with her fiancé Robin Schmid, a facade specialist at an engineering firm. She says they’ve lived in this home for so long it represents a chapter of their lives and she knows they’ll lo

When I returned home [at the end of 2015] after seven years in New York, I was unsure what I wanted to do next. I was 28 years old and had accomplished so much, but I was burnt out from the hard mahi (work) that comes with working in one of the most

Expat Kiwi artist Anna Church has lived in Toronto with her husband Nick Dalton and their two children for eight years, and in this home for five. They recently completed a renovation that took it back to its 1834 bones and built it back up again, bi

It had been a lifelong ambition of Jackie Houghton’s to live a simple country life somewhere far away from bright city lights. After 10 years spent living overseas, the pull of rural New Zealand and the promise of a new project inspired her to return

This two-storey former state house on a Lyttelton hillside sports an exterior paint scheme that’s loud and proud for good reason. Boaties navigating the harbour use it as a landmark and the citrusy orange speaks a similar visual language as a neighbo

You’d be forgiven for missing the house. Complementing the hillside, the sandy tones of this holiday home are barely noticeable from Ripiro Beach below. A kilometre from its neighbour, the house quietly blends in with its sand and grass surrounds; it

In an enclave of holiday homes set among farmland and bush at Medlands Beach on Great Barrier Island, this boxy bach makes clever use of Dutch design theory to work its angles within the environment. And this home has more angles than most around her

So Lynda, what sparked the idea to start Architecture+Women NZ? It began with a conversation with Julie Wilson in early 2011 about the high number of women leaving the profession. We decided to increase the visibility of the many women who train in a

Character apartments have their fine points and their foibles — that’s a given. For Daniel Varcoe, this reality hit home when he was trying to hang his larger works of art. “If you used a builder’s level, the work would be completely out of whack,” h

When is a group housing company house so much more than others of its ilk? When it’s a David Reid Homes home individualised just for you. Offering both pre-designed and custom builds, personalisation is the name of the game for these guys, and at thi

Florist Lucy Houghton of Lu Diamond Flowers and her partner Benny Connolly, director of surf-brand management business Hippie Slang Agencies, moved from Auckland to Benny’s hometown of New Plymouth in 2017 when expecting their twin daughters Delilah

When fashion designer Juliette Hogan spotted Pirongia painter Carmel Van Der Hoeven of George Sand Studio’s large-scale artworks in an Auckland gallery, she knew she was onto something. Cut to her and in-house print designer Louise Cuckow commissioni