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ello readers! I’m thrilled to be onboard as the new editor of Abode. Originally from Christchurch, the travel bug took me to Auckland, London, and a lot of other places in between. I believe that the journey to building a new home is an intrepid adventure, with all the ingredients for a great story. I can’t wait to share some of these stories with you! After two years at the helm, our much-loved editor Anna Scaife is leaving to pursue other projects; including taking on the role of editor of our sister publication, Family Times. We’re not letting go of Anna completely though as she will still be with Abode as a contributor. Summer is almost here. And this year perhaps more than any other we are collectively craving the season. The sunshine? Yes! The sense of optimism it brings? Absolutely! An end to this strange and trying year? You bet! The extra time spent at home has given rise to an upturn in home improvements, as holiday budgets are being redirected towards staycations. I have a busy home life with two growing sons and our best memories have come from time spent together on the beach. Last summer my obsession with homes extended beyond four solid walls as we discovered camping – and we’re looking forward to exploring some great destinations around New Zealand this summer. In this issue, we have a superb variety of homes for you to enjoy – from a light-filled zen paradise to a family’s first build and a semi-retired dream by the sea. We explore what it means to have a Healthy Home and how a subdivided section resulted in two dream properties. We see the unique combination of steampunk and Japanese minimalism and discover some townhouses with unshakeable strength.
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TA M I N G T H E W I L D E R N E S S Thank you Abode, for the ‘Backyard Paradise’ section, in the September/ October issue. It came at just the right time. We were about to tackle our unruly garden and have now found a very reassuring landscape designer. Can’t wait to have some friends over soon. J O C E LY N , H U N T S B U R Y
T H E G R E AT E S C A P E I’m feeling home-envy yet again after reading the latest issue, (Abode, September/October ‘Southern Beauty’). The house in Wā naka is just so unique, and a wonderful piece of escapism for the likes of myself, who currently enjoys a less than stunning view of the front neighbour’s fence. Keep those dream homes coming. V E R I T Y, I L A M
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SEASONAL MUSINGS Hagley Park is one of my favourite places in spring, the blossoms in September show the park in all its splendour. So I was happy to see that my favourite Abode columnist Tony Milne from Rough and Milne Landscape Architects shares my love of this place and of the poet D.H. Lawrence. Looking forward to the next column! M A R I O N , PA PA N U I 4
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A majestic Wānaka home from Johnston Architects and CDL Building.
OUTDOOR INSPIRATION
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HOMES
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How to get your home ready for sale this summer
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NATURE’S FINEST
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ZEN HARMONY
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SUSTAINABILIT Y ON SHOW
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BUILT TO L AST
Unshakeable inner city townhouses
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Bringing a sunroom to life with luscious shades of green
An inspirational new showroom for kitchen and storage ideas
An entertainer’s dream built with relaxation in mind
SETTING THE SCENE
Beautiful and hardy native planting for southern conditions
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HIGH ON A HILL
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FOUR SEASONS GARDEN
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TWICE THE ST YLE
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Steampunk, Japanese minimalism and sweeping views
Two homes from one shared vision
A CHANGE OF PL AN
From the Auckland rat race to a Rolleston dream home
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A guide for building with wellbeing and the environment in mind
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ON THE COVER A stunning renovation from Johnston Architects and DJ Hewitt Builders with Artisan Stone counter, hob top and splashback. Joinery by Lyall Park Joinery. Photography: Mick Stephenson
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LO C A L HIGHLIGHTS This stylish Cilla Pendant in glass and metal comes from New Zealand company Eurotech Lighting, who have been producing locally designed lighting products for over 50 years – bringing the latest designs and technology without the matching price tag. eurotechlighting.co.nz
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THE MARKET
STEVE & BELINDA ELLIS of Bayleys Fendalton
Conceal, reveal and add appeal GETTING YOUR HOUSE READY TO SELL MAKES FOR A LONG LIST OF CLEANING, CLEARING, FIXING AND STYLING. S T E V E A N D B E L I N D A E L L I S F R O M B AY L E Y S F E N D A LT O N P R O M I S E T H AT W H E N I T C O M E S T O P R E P P I N G A H O M E F O R S A L E , T H E PA I N I S A LWAY S W O R T H T H E G A I N .
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hen selling your home in the summer months, it’s important to make your outdoor spaces welcoming. Wash, repaint and repair your windows, doors, exterior, fence and letterbox for easy curb appeal. “Presenting your home for sale can sometimes be challenging as you have an emotional attachment and don’t see things the same way a buyer does,” says Steve. Clear out the clutter with a garage sale or store it inside the garage in boxes to keep it tidy. Cars, rubbish bins, hoses and outdoor toys should be kept out of sight and barbecues should only be on show if they’re in great condition. Overgrown hedges and unmowed lawns are signs of neglect that can make potential buyers run a mile. Cleaning swimming and spa pools, and removing covers is a great way to draw buyers in. Dress up your outdoor table with a coffee or wine setting, a colourful pot plant or outdoor candles.
Make your entrance welcoming with a new doormat and a bold new colour for the front door. Invite people into your freshly styled home with flowers or a large plant on a console table. Children’s toys should be tidy and organised and pet beds should be out of sight for photos and open homes. Always make sure your entire home has a welcoming aroma. This can be achieved with luxury diffusers, fragrant candles and plug-ins if necessary. It’s difficult for people to visualise themselves living in a cluttered home, so remove bulky furniture and messy items from shelves. A clear countertop creates a sense of space, but you can add a bowl of fresh fruit for an easy pop of colour. Repainting rooms, replacing light bulbs, repairing cupboards, and thorough cleaning are small things that make a significant impact. A well-styled bed always looks luxurious, but make sure you store away personal items and photos to help people see themselves living in the space. Keep wardrobes tidy and free from clutter. A touch of greenery, a luxurious hand soap and feature towels in a clean, uncluttered bathroom are very enticing to potential buyers. Once your home is cleared and repaired, you can really make it shine with a few colourful accessories to add depth, texture and warmth to your space. Belinda says, “It’s all about creating that important first impression. You want buyers to feel your property is a place they can imagine themselves and their possessions in.” If you’d like to have the new guide booklet, on how to present your home for sale, then don’t hesitate to get in touch. Steve and Belinda would love to hear from you. 0800 30 30 33 | steveandbelindaellis.co.nz
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SEASON, TONY MILNE FROM ROUGH AND M I L N E C O N T E M P L AT E S T H E C H A N G I N G LANDSCAPE OF A GARDEN IN BLOOM.
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s I write this, the warmth of a Canterbury nor’wester makes a hazy IPA seem the logical midafternoon choice. Particularly, as I am cheering on Otago in their defence of the Ranfurly Shield. To no avail, they relinquish, unfortunately barely firing a shot. Unlike the spring equinox. Hopefully, in another few weeks, we can bid farewell to the relentless easterly zephyr that accompanies it. Each year, a gentle daily reminder that, for reasons other than climate, we have chosen an eastern seaboard South Island city in which to call home.
But it is undoubtedly the time of the year, during which we scrape off the barbecue tools and look for the swimming trunks. The derris dust is sprinkled, and the doors of the bee hotel are thrown open as we ready ourselves for the prospect of summer. The squabs for the outdoor furniture have come down from roof storage. I have even mixed up a concoction of organic neem oil and sprayed the ornamentals in our garden. Unfortunately, I planted the mega toms a little too early. The Pittosporum ‘Midgets’ are clothed with bright green growth, inviting a little shaping to return them
to their ball-like form. Contrived some may say, but I do like the juxtaposition with the seemingly random planting that surrounds it. The Penstemon and Salvia are starting to push through the overhanging Libertia formosa. The lancewoods continue to surge towards the sky and our Coprosma ‘Lobster’, a divaricating beauty with a mass of distinctive red foliage stands proud, as it always does, guarding the gap in our front wall. The family wait for a gate, apparently the landscape architect in the house is wanting to design it. Their patience is waning, a proprietary gate is being threatened. The gate can wait. As spring morphs into summer, and those things that nap during winter awake, I am readying myself for my ongoing battle with the local precocious exhibitionists. And no, it’s not Kevin and Destiny down at the local park, rather my old mate Helix aspersa or Cornu aspersum if you may, the common garden snail. I am not sure why they choose our place, rather than our neighbours Chris or Derek. It’s not quite the giant African land snail invasion of Cuba, Brazil and Venezuela six or so years ago. This is a snail which can grow to the size of a rat and will seemingly devour anything in its wake. In the dim moonlight of my nightly raids, I’m not so sure. Aside from the 1986 Quail Island mouse infestation, from which I have yet to recover, I have never experienced anything like it. Nothing seems to dissuade them. Following light drizzle, we can pick up 120-plus of these terrestrial gastropod molluscs as they slither and sucker onto the freshened foliage of the vegetable patch. Its little radula, a toothed ribbon of a tongue, reaping the leaves of our leafy greens. We have yet to try eggshells and chickens, but we have been liberally spreading coffee grounds and yet they come back. Our beer bait traps do not make it past Lulu, our ever-inquisitive black Labrador. This summer I am hoping a liberal planting of lavender, rosemary, mint, thyme and sage will head them in Chris or Derek's direction. However with a maximum adult speed of 0.047km/hr they are not going too far. 03 366 3268 | roughandmilne.co.nz
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INTERIORS
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KATY HUSBAND of Feather & Oak Interiors
The gift of Christmas style OVER THE YEARS WE’VE SEEN CHRISTMAS DÉCOR TRENDS GO F R O M G R A N D I O S E G L A M O U R T O PA R R E D B A C K S I M P L I C I T Y. AB O D E’ S I N T E R I O R D E S I G N E X P E R T K AT Y H U S B A N D F R O M F E AT H E R & O A K SHARES SOME MEMORIES AND TIPS FOR STYLING THE SEASON.
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here are many levels of intensity when styling your home for Christmas – I was brought up in level 10 of 10. In my childhood home, Christmas started at Canterbury Show weekend when we packed away all the existing styling accessories to the attic and boxes and boxes of Christmas decorations were trundled down three flights of stairs to be unpacked and displayed around the ground floor of our home. My mother has always loved Christmas, and as an artist, creative, and giver of joy, decorating and opening our home to the public was the perfect amalgamation of it all. We have tried many different themes over the years in the house but landed on a journey through the rooms of traditional, modern, garden, kitchen and folk.
I learned about the practices and traditions of many Northern European countries whilst giving ‘tours’ in my late teens and because of the family love of Christmas we have developed many traditions over the years during the decoration phase. My own family home at Christmas time does not reflect the breadth of decoration of my childhood – it is a more restrained and styled approach. However, we do have favourite pieces that the children grow more attached to every year. I struggled with the hot mess of homemade preschool decorations on my beautiful tree, so some years ago, we created the ‘children’s tree’. This is a tree that I am not allowed to decorate, but something the four children can have full styling control over (I will, however, neither confirm nor deny that some small tweaks to this tree may occur after all small bodies are sleeping in bed!). Although there is much romance attached to a winter Christmas, there are many positives to our summer Christmas vibes in the Southern Hemisphere. Long lazy lunches, barbecues and parties in temperate evenings, and delicious cocktails late afternoon. Our approach to styling at Christmas can also range from the relaxed to the more formal. As we continue to grow into our style, we can handpick the best from abroad and filter it through our local environment and individual taste. If you want to introduce a small taste of Christmas into your home interior perhaps pick a spot on a console or bookshelf where you can introduce a Christmas vignette – maybe a tray housing a candle, vase of flowers and Christmas ornament. If you wish to present a larger festive theme to your space, think about colour, scale, accessibility and focal points. And don’t forget about your outdoor areas! There are gorgeous outdoor trees, lights and decorations. Wherever you sit on the scale of your approach to Christmas interiors, this is a time of year when you can mix up the usual and introduce some festive style. Curate the elegant and beautiful, the joyful and meaningful, and remember that your home, whatever the season, should reflect you. 03 313 0123 | featherandoak.co.nz
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“The architectural design matches our heirloom. But we also want to be relevant in the current business climate, supporting local businesses by hosting events, industry meetings, seminars and training workshops for architects, designers and cabinet makers,” says Michael Hawkins, Managing Director, Blum New Zealand. This company loves to work together with customers and partners to improve the quality of living for furniture buyers. They strive for beautiful, functional and long-lasting products, based on findings from global research. This stunning sustainable showroom is located at 16 Avenger Crescent, Wigram, Christchurch and is open from Mondays to Fridays. 03 379 4984 | blum.com
that creative interior design can be implemented with high-quality fittings – not only in kitchens and bathrooms but also in living areas, big and small. When asked about the design brief, Simon Laurie, Senior Associate at Warren and Mahoney Architects in Christchurch, says, “Design decisions were focused on wellness and employee wellbeing. With plenty of natural light, outdoor areas to take time out, the acoustic design provides comfortable noise levels, and the materials complement the local natural environment.” Simon adds that, “Architecturally, the design expresses a streamlined, finely tuned and engineered outcome, closely aligned with the precision of products the building will deliver. The showroom is a splendid double-height, light-filled space that visually connects with the outside and features a cantilevered stair, clad in blue steel. The finished building is testament to the effort put in by the whole design team, delivering a building that has sustainability at its core.” The key features are geothermal heating, natural ventilation systems, solar photovoltaic panels, a water recycling system and charging station for electric cars. Futureproofing was also important, allowing for business growth without multiple extensions.
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HARDY NATIVE PLANTING
These New Zealand native plants deal well with the extremes of wind, sun and snow – and look great too!
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n Canterbury, we know all about the harsh environmental conditions of our weather. Just in the last couple of months, we have been subjected to an array of punishing weather conditions. Landscaping in a way that minimises these is vital. For example, wind can shut down many an evening’s entertainments, so creating shelter from wind is crucial to getting the most of your outdoor spaces. In the case of their recent Terrace Downs project, the team at Goom set about dealing with the 100 km/hour winds synonymous of the area by carrying out some creative planting and hardscaping. The materials, soft and hard, had to survive these extremes. Jessica Staples, senior landscape architect at Goom, explains more.
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“There are many days when being outside in the high country isn’t a pleasant experience. The grand vistas have to be enjoyed from the protection of the indoors, and the landscape design needs to be in the foreground of those views,” Jessica says. This project shows how good design reacts to the specific requirements of the setting. In addition to the hardy native planting, underground heating was installed to prevent snow and ice sitting on the driveway. The key is to use your surrounds as a feature. In urban projects on the flat, there may be no view, or if there is, it might be into the neighbour’s adjoining property. So, screening and landscaping are crucial.
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If you are landscaping on the hills or in a rural setting, the view is likely to be the star of the show. Therefore, the landscaping should enhance this, rather than detract from it. This was certainly the case for the Terrace Downs project, where the client sought a minimalist Japanese-inspired aesthetic, so the focal point remained the stunning views. Decks are still popular features of any garden area. But remember when building a deck, ensure it is of a functional size. If too small, guests will struggle to relax if they are always concerned about tipping over the edge. For the clients of the Terrace Downs project, they knew they wanted a deck large enough to house a sizeable outdoor table and chairs and several bean bags for relaxing and taking in the view. Noting that landscaping is a long-term project, the owners chose to complete the work in phases. Goom staggered the layout of the decks so that they appear to float amongst the planting and most recently the team has completed a beautiful solid wood bench that is sturdy enough not to blow away in the wind.
ROCK SOLID
A jagged line of local rocks break up the formal planes to the front door, continuing beyond the house to connect with a natural outcrop.
This project won the RML premier award for Best Construction in 2019, with judges noting the outstanding workmanship of Goom. “The elegant water feature pools have been constructed to perfection to create even flows from numerous levels and are complemented at night by clever lighting,” comments one of the judges. “With all aspects of construction carried out and completed by Goom to the highest of standards, High Country Zen is a very worthy winner of Best Construction 2019.” Whether it’s rural or urban, small or large, Goom are always excited about working with you to beautify your outdoor space. 0800 466 657 | goom.nz
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