Giddy Up
CURATED BY NINA TUCKER The classic cowboy boots have slowly appeared on the shelves of many shoe stores nationwide. A lasting style, the cowboy boot comes with durability, gorgeous embroidery, and timelessness. Seen with everything from denim to dresses, styling cowboy boots seems to have loose rules. Pair with oversized jeans, a leather […]
More support for franchising
Franchising businesses can now apply to bring in workers from overseas through the standard, high-volume, or triangular employment accreditation. More than 32,000 franchisees are set to benefit from the Accredited Employer Work Visa (AEWV) accreditation programme for hiring migrant workers, after the Government disestablished the franchisee accreditation category. Advantages of the move include […]
Breathtaking outdoor rooms: Kolorful Kanvas
While people love to socialise and dine alfresco, the joy can fade when the weather or temperatures change for the worse. By screening an outdoor relaxation space, it immediately creates an ambience of warmth, cosiness, and shelter from whatever is happening outside. Outdoor screens beautify not only the outdoor spaces around homes, but […]
Enhance your home: Shades Direct
Kiwis enjoy the great outdoors even during the colder months, often making the most of their outside spaces thanks to awnings, canopies, and screens. Entertaining family and friends at home or the bach, is our happy place. Creating all-weather outdoor spaces so we can take pleasure in nature is specialist Canterbury company Shades […]
Sick Home Syndrome
Medical experts in New Zealand and Australia are noticing a rise in “sick home syndrome”, both at home and in offices. Sick home syndrome is your body’s reaction to pathogens, mould, toxic chemicals, or lack of proper ventilation. Various reasons leading to symptoms include: Chemical contamination, including tobacco smoke, copy machine fumes, formaldehyde […]
Cold climate plants
Many native and exotic plants, shrubs, and trees available in New Zealand are tougher than they look, surviving low temperatures, droughts, frosts, poor soil, and occasional neglect or improper care. Seasonal changes bring challenges for gardeners, especially in colder climate areas such as Canterbury. The trick is to choose plants that survive and […]
Passport not required: Stay Geraldine
Ask a Christchurch resident what they know of Fiery Peak, and chances are, they will guess a volcanic hot-spot on some far-flung continent. Uh-uh. Guess again. Fiery Peak numbers alongside the many mountains of our own Southern Alps, and can be appreciated in all its splendour while breakfasting in bed. Stay Geraldine’s new […]
Homes to get your heart racing: Heartland Homes
Our heart rate mirrors our feelings. When someone or something we love comes into view, it can send those beats per minute soaring. When relaxed and secure, the heartbeat returns to its comfortable resting rate. A Heartland home can have this very effect on people. The excitement of love at first sight leads […]
Add a glow to your cedar cladding: Cedar Tech
Cedar is known as the Rolls-Royce of cladding systems. Just like any premium product, it requires a premium and specialist level of service to maintain it. If you own a cedar-clad home or are looking at buying or building, denying maintenance requirements won’t make them go away. Cedar maintenance and restoration is a […]
Exceptional food, impeccable service: No.31 Restaurant
Hanmer Springs is known for its many attractions, such as thermal pools, jet boating on the Waiau River, bungy jumping in the Waiau Gorge and many more adventures besides. So it is hardly surprising that there is a multi-award winning restaurant in the village as well. No. 31 Restaurant is located in a […]
