Music to your ears: Soundline Audio
Music is powerful – touching our hearts and minds and evoking emotions. Your favourite artist or ballad heard crisp and clear is a feeling hard to beat. High-performance speakers, however, can be bulky and obtrusive in a sleek residential environment. The solution? Sonance Invisible speakers series from Soundline Audio. Seamlessly integrating into plaster walls, the […]
Blooming lovely: Silk Flowers
Brighten your home with beautiful silk flowers. Looking to add a splash of colour and cheer to your home all year round? Silk flowers are a stunning, low-maintenance complement to real plants and blooms. Unlike fresh flowers, silk arrangements don’t wilt, require no watering, and remain vibrant no matter the season. They’re ideal for hard-to-reach […]
Food. Friends. Feeling: Insitu Cafe
A truly local café has a charm that invites customers to stay for more than just a short time. In Hillsborough lies a perfect such retreat. Bright and open, INSITU Cafe offers plenty of eclectic sofas, chairs and tables to perch at surrounded by a modern mix of décor and artwork. Owner Rohit Bhardwaj fell […]
The artistry of plaster: Proudfoot Plastering
Meet the team bringing Japanese-style elegance to Christchurch interiors. In a recent Christchurch home project, plain white GIB walls were turned into a series of beautifully textured surfaces using Otsumagaki, (Otsu for short), a Japanese-style compressed clay that delivers a luxurious, natural finish. The project was a collaboration between Proudfoot Plastering and Sam Tuuta of […]
Fine fibres: Wild Earth Yarns
After a flirtation with artificial materials, the world is returning to nature’s finest fibres. A Christchurch-based and family-owned operation sources wool and possum from the scenic South Island, crafting a beautiful range of yarns. Wild Earth Yarns stocks its own label alongside Rowan Kidsilk Haze, a mohair and silk blend on Lincoln Rd, Addington. “We […]
Aligning growing smiles: OrthodontiX
Take advantage of your child’s growing years by addressing misalignment and setting their teeth and smile on the right track. Guiding correct teeth alignment and facial growth, new technology from Invisalign redefines how malocclusion, the imperfect alignment of teeth, is treated. Reducing the need for multiple dental appliances, the Invisalign System with mandibular advancement featuring […]
Our next million dollar suburbs
Nine Christchurch suburbs are poised to cross the million-dollar threshold in the next couple of years. The next Christchurch suburbs most likely to be inducted into the million-dollar club appear most likely to be: Casebrook ($900,900), Ilam ($910,000), Halswell ($820,000), and St Albans ($755,000). That’s according to Gavin Lloyd, the Property Sales Director for Trade […]
What’s your number? EBI Business
The one KPI that drives everything. Murray Dempsey In business, data is everywhere. Only one number, though, truly rules your world. That’s your number: the single KPI that, if you nail it, almost everything else falls into place. Revenue, profit, customer satisfaction? They’re all by-products of this one critical metric. Your number might be average […]
Standalones & suburbs
Suburbs nationwide are emerging at a rapid rate – and buyers are once again favouring standalone spaces. D espite the general slowdown of recent years, standalone houses are beginning to regain ground in many suburbs, according to insights from Cotality NZ’s latest Mapping the Market report. People are opting for detached housing – larger area, […]
Creating community in Ashburton: Neil Brown, Mayor of Ashburton
Civic buildings bring people of a community together and Te Whare Whakatere, Ashburton’s library and council administration building, has achieved just that. Since it opened in January 2024, Te Whare Whakatere has been a place for business, for debate, for decisions and gatherings; it has also become a space for the community, who we see […]
