Life + Style 19 August 2016

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Practical and popular More to blinds than meets the eye A mother adored a particular view from her living room window in Auckland. When she moved to a Bay of Plenty retirement home, her treasured view was gone.

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Bay Blinds sells directly to the public as well as other blind re-seller throughout New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, supplying a comprehensive range of vertical blinds, venetian blinds, roller blinds, wood venetians and roller sunscreens.

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So Bay Blinds in Tauranga printed that view on a roller blind for her room – now she’ll always be reminded of ‘home’. That’s just what the team at Bay Blinds do – they go above and beyond for their customers.

“That’s the sort of thing we can do, which is pretty special,” says Bay Blinds projects manager Tim Taylor.

There’s more to blinds than this reporter thought.

“Blinds are one of those little abstract components in home décor that you may not pay much attention to, but it’s a huge industry.

“Blinds are really important in terms of security, fashion and shutting out the sunlight to avoid faded carpets.

“While they don’t have many thermal properties to them, they create that barrier in the window to help keep houses a little bit warmer.”

So blinds are practical and popular. Tim’s parents Lyn and Paul Taylor started the family business 27 years ago and it’s grown from making blinds in the garage to an entire factory.

“We’ve even outgrown the factory,” says Tim. “We’re proud of being a family business and we employ all of our own local people and have always done so – and we’re supplying throughout the whole of New Zealand; the South Pacific.”

Roughly 1000 various types of blinds are produced weekly at the Maleme St factory and “about 2000 orders at any one time”.

“Generally, it’s about a three-week turnaround from ordering blinds to installing them,” says Tim. “For the last six months it’s been constantly as busy as it’s ever been. I think that’s due to the building boom.”

There’s a team of 30 workers at Bay Blinds. Out in the field is the sales team, who offer a free measure and quote to all customers.

At the showroom, customers are greeted with a smile from the ladies at the front counter and a backdrop of Mauao perfectly printed onto a blind behind them.

Open the doors to the factory and this is where the magic happens. Just like the structured, orderly and clean aspects of a venetian blind, staff are manning their stations parallel to each other. Hands are busy cutting, measuring, assembling, checking and dispatching.

For such a messy job, the factory is clean, tidy and organised. It’s something the team take pride in.

“It’s a real flow of work and products,” says Tim. “The whole thing is designed to create efficiency. “Everyone works together and we all depend on each other.”

“We have to keep this place really clean. While it’s a factory,

all of these products are going into homes.” So no dirty fingerprints or dust on the venetians and roller blinds.

It’s the quality and craftsmanship that Bay Blind customers appreciate. “We don’t cut any corners, this is what we’re good at and we’re quite proud of that,” says Tim. “We import all of our own products, buying direct from overseas. We’re manufacturing everything here from start to finish.

“That’s one of our big differences is that we don’t get any imported products and on-sell. It’s all of our own.

“It means all of our products are custom-made for the individual customers.

“We like to think we make a really quality product.”

Materials and fabrics come from around the world. They select what products they want, but it’s got to stand up to New Zealand conditions.

“The UV is really big problem here,” says Tim. “Plastic components will break down quickly or metal components will rust or corrode in the Bay. So we’ve got to be quite particular.

“We’re lucky because we directly import we can pick and choose what we want. It means our products last a lot longer.”

Longevity in products and in business. “It’s interesting watching the trends,” says Tim. “Homes used to have vertical blinds with fibre glass fabric. Now we’re seeing really beautiful fabrics.”

A venetian blind is displayed in the factory for checking and Tim tells us the slats are all made of polystyrene.

“We call them the ‘Creation’. They’re really good because they don’t distort in the sun.”

So, for quality in blinds and in service, visit the Greerton showroom today.

Zoe Hunter

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“You don’t need to have done anything ‘special’ or have been ‘famous’ – ‘ordinary’ is just fine”

Telling our life stories Give the past a future today “Nobody knows the stories that shape your life like you do,” says personal historian Kate McCarthy. “So don’t leave it to others to reveal the stories that you experienced first-hand. You know your own life story best.

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“I’ve prepared life stories for war veterans and pillars in the community; but as far as I’m concerned everyone has a story to tell.

“You don’t need to have done anything ‘special’ or have been ‘famous’ – ‘ordinary’ is just fine. As Mark Twain said: ‘There’s no such thing as an ordinary life’.”

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What concerns Kate most is that time runs away and it can quickly become too late. “You couldn’t make some of this stuff up. Once people are gone their stories and the family history, that only they know, goes with them.”

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Stage success at sixteen Young designer’s busy few weeks Ironically, Zoe Beck still gets chastised despite being an award-winning designer.

Mum Donna Beck makes her meticulously unpick and re-sew any sloppy stitches, even though Zoe has won numerous competitions.

Zoe is not all that great a seamstress under her own admission. “This is actually kind of funny. I’m terrible at sewing,” laughs the 16-year-old.

“She rushes,” says mum Donna. “I make her unpick a lot. If I know the competition is going to be looking inside her garment, I’m sitting next to her and really guiding her.

“Her sewing teacher is always at her saying, ‘Zoe you’ve got to slow down’. She’d rather get it on and get it done and see how it looks.” Fair enough.

Zoe Beck – fashion designer, model, dancer, air cadet, athlete, and volunteer – all while trying to juggle a social life and high school at age 16.

“Well, sometimes…,” admits the teenager.

Zoe is a talented, young, emerging fashion designer in Welcome Bay specialising in New Zealand streetwear and wearable arts.

But juggling all of these things hasn’t stopped Zoe winning awards left right and centre.

In July Zoe took part in the Bay of Plenty Sustainable Arts Awards at Baycourt Community and Arts Centre. She went home with first place in the Wearable Arts Division and runner up the recycled fashion category.

Zoe took out the Tauranga Girls’ College Wearable Arts award earlier this year, placing not only first, but second and third with her wearable arts entries.

She has been approached by schools to be a guest speaker to inspire other youths to work hard for their dreams and has judged local wearable arts competitions.

And there’s no break coming up yet. No, quite the opposite for Zoe. Starting on Saturday, August 20, Zoe will embark on what she calls the most exciting and busiest three week she’s ever had.

She’s already had a very busy few months preparing for her upcoming shows, and is still busy preparing for three upcoming fashion shows and competitions during the next three weekends.

“This so far has been her busiest year to date, and she is constantly being presented with opportunities,” says mum Donna. “I think she overcommits.”

“Yeah,” says Zoe. “At the time it’s okay and then it gets to [the deadline] and it’s every single weekend one after another or they’re in the same weekend.”

But she manages, for the love of the craft.

Zoe will be off to NZ Fashion Week in Auckland where she will be showing off her garments

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“NZ Fashion Week is definitely the icing on the cake for any youngster just starting out”

alongside other emerging designers in the Young Designers Showcase as well as modelling.

“NZ Fashion Week is most definitely a highlight for Zoe where last year she took away the judges special award for excellence in design, runway presentation and creativity,” says Donna.

Although the show does have a competitive element, Zoe says she’s content just to be on the international runway in front of hundreds of people, with all the cameras and media attention.

“NZ Fashion Week is definitely the icing on the cake for any youngster just starting out,” says Donna.

And being both a model and a designer has helped Zoe grasp a better understanding, she thinks. “I would say it’s helped, because I can make things that fit me and then model them myself.

“If I want it modelled a certain way, you can put another model in it and they might not do it in the same way that you envisaged as a designer for it to look.”

“I think it’s been quite good for her to learn both sides,” says Donna.

Mum laments that her house is always covered in tatters of fabric.

“Zoe is very lucky in that I allow her and her design stuff to literally take over the whole house – it’s even in my bedroom! She always has several projects on the go at a time.”

Though she’s an award-winning designer, Zoe says she sometimes finds the processes she has to go through at school for textiles and sewing classes can be a bit tedious.

“It took me a whole term, which is 12 weeks, to make one garment and in that time I made like four at home.”

And from her long, drawn-out explanation of the homework requirements, it sounds like an incredibly monotonous process – from sketches and planning to researching different ways to sew a zipper, finding fabric swatches and taking progress photos to finally making the garment or project.

“It’s so annoying.”

And that’s where we left Zoe, sitting on the floor, working through her textiles homework but probably thinking about the next big design project.

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