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Open door policy

On sunny days, this young family's Auckland home becomes the ultimate example of indoor-outdoor flow.

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Salad days

Salad days

Mark Leong of Studio Myla brings fresh form, space, and views to his award-winning family home through a tactful renovation and Vantage joinery.

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Long Story Short

Long Story Short

One couple’s Auckland home has everything they could ever want, including a ‘cyclone bunker’ and display space for their sizeable collections

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Boom Box

Boom Box

A few years after buying a 1980s wooden cabin in the North Shore bush, its doting owners decided it was time to expand — unconventionally.

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Bird's Eye View

Bird's Eye View

A contemporary home on a Christchurch estuary provides its owner with an outlook that’s always changing.

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Wait and Sea

Wait and Sea

At a 200-metre elevation, the site has stunning sea views, needless to say, the brief was for a house with a Scandinavian feel that captures the views

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Dark Matter

Dark Matter

Anne Kelly updates a modernist house with a striking new extension for a young family.

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Hole in One

Hole in One

Elbow Architects make a clever play in adding space to this mid-century family home in Titirangi, Tāmaki Makaurau, surrounded by native bush.

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Walking on Sunshine

Walking on Sunshine

Architects Kate Rogan and Eva Nash pooled their talents to design Eva’s new family home in Westmere.

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Fairytale Ending

Fairytale Ending

Tanya and Dominic renovated an "ugly duckling" with the views and space they wanted, creating a cedar-clad contemporary home on Christchurch's Cashmere Hills.

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Full Transparency

Full Transparency

One family gives new meaning to indoor-outdoor flow with a new home, where they can see the front and back yard from the open-plan living space.

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Water, water everywhere

Water, water everywhere

Choosing to build on the Whitianga Waterways was very much Plan B for one couple, but it now feels like it was meant to be.

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High & Mighty

High & Mighty

A Christchurch home on a steep site required an innovative design, which meant plenty of sharp angles.

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Forward Thinking

Forward Thinking

No one knows the future, but that’s not stopping Julian from planning for it. He wants to enjoy his striking, modern Whitianga home for as long as possible.

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Where the Pheasants Fly

Where the Pheasants Fly

An artist sketched a house open to the views with a nod to the local birds in 2019. Two years later, the vision was realised and he and his family moved into the home on a hill in Raglan.

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Building the Kiwi Dream

Building the Kiwi Dream

Follow Matt and Kaylene Watson as they embark on building their Kiwi dream on a slice of New Zealand paradise; a home for their family and a place for friends to congregate and enjoy.

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Mountains of Appeal

Mountains of Appeal

When a Timaru family built a holiday home in picturesque Wānaka, space and views were what they most craved.

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Sea Change

Sea Change

A family exchanges cramped apartment life in Southeast Asia for a large, cedar-clad coastal home in Raglan.

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Bay Watch

Bay Watch

A property developer and his family find magic at Moonlight on a steep section overlooking the Tasman // Your Home & Garden

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Home again

Home again

An architect builds his family a contemporary residence on the site of his childhood house. // Your Home & Garden

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Change of pace

Change of pace

This sun-drenched home was designed to perfectly suit a couple with plans of retiring. // Your Home & Garden

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And breathe

And breathe

This opulent family home was also designed to be luxury accommodation for guests to completely relax. // Your Home & Garden

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Builder's own

Builder's own

With experience building their own homes and their business, Tony and Terena Anderson had a good idea of what they wanted when it came to planning their home in Kumeu.

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Serial builders

Serial builders

A husband-and-wife team, who cannot seem to stop building houses, have finally built a home in Kumeu that is just right. // Your Home & Garden

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Site for sore eyes

Site for sore eyes

This clifftop stunner is the ultimate in indoor/outdoor flow. // Your Home & Garden

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To the lighthouse

To the lighthouse

An architect built his home to be completely private from the front, open at the back and with a surprising night-time element.

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David's Bowentown Build

David's Bowentown Build

David shares how he had local builders frame up his Bowentown bach then he jumped on the tools to complete the project.

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Natural selection

Natural selection

When a builder and an interior designer created their own home, the result was a considered house rich in details with plenty of sliding doors and carefully chosen natural materials.

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Work the Angles

Work the Angles

This Bowentown bach combines the owner’s love of nature and great architecture

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Happy campers

Happy campers

The boundary between inside and out is blurred at a Matarangi holiday home thanks to clever use of sliding doors and raked windows

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Natural Light

Natural Light

This elegantly designed Hamilton home wraps around a lush gully of native bush and boasts almost seamless connections to its outdoor spaces

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Heart warming

Heart warming

A “forever” home. That’s how Rachael describes the house that she and partner Kip have built for their family of five in the Cambridge countryside.

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In detail

In detail

This award winning home made smart joinery choices to create a seamless flow between indoor and outdoor spaces

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Simple forms and elements

Simple forms and elements

From the street, this house reads as an intriguing mystery box with signs of life hidden from the street but walk around to the sunny northern side and you’ll find a lively family dwelling

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Warm welcome

Warm welcome

This home's clever combination of products mixes the heating standards of the UK with the kiwi lifestyle. As seen in Your Home & Garden magazine.

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Mount Views

Mount Views

Special views called for a special product – doors that could disappear from sight.

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Paint it Black

Paint it Black

A smart urban garage and apartment project takes its cues from nature.

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Mix and match

Mix and match

This North Shore, Auckland show home uses windows and doors from Vantage Residential and Metro Series to achieve seamless flow.

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Bold design

Bold design

Three types of Vantage windows and doors were used in this impressive and well thought out Hamilton home.

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Minimalism

Minimalism

A Herne Bay home’s minimal design vision was realised with windows and doors from the APL Architectural Series.

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