Creating beautiful bathrooms: Butterfield Bathroom Renovations.
Many people who would have been renovating ahead of selling their house, are now renovating because they’re staying put. Several television home renovation shows are based on the sell versus stay options. The renovations always add value to the homes. More homeowners in Christchurch are coming to this same conclusion, renovating to […]
Shaping our buildings: Morel Construction
When it comes to building, several questions immediately spring to mind. What attributes are you likely to look for when considering a company to build your new architecturally designed home, to renovate your existing home or to work on your commercial development? is one of them. Mostly the answer is proven skill, […]
Perfect gifting awaits: The Ivy
With Father’s Day just around the corner, what better way to celebrate than with a little indulgence. For that special father or father-figure in your life or a little something to enhance your own home, there is nowhere better than The Ivy. Father’s Day ideas include beautiful New Zealand-made possum and merino […]
Hamptons style in Christchurch: OneWorld
London, Sydney, Chicago… Christchurch. OneWorld has been available at leading furniture retailers in New Zealand for over a decade and now the label has opened its first retail showroom in the country – in Christchurch.
Setting the standard: Food & Health Standards
We need food for our very existence. We also need that food to be safe for consumption. Food safety does not happen spontaneously. It is highly regulated and there are organisations in our community dedicated to this task. Fundamental to the safety programme are food control plans (FCP) under the Food Act […]
A force for construction: Tonu Civil Construction
Things are humming at Tonu Civil Construction. Thanks to many satisfied former clients telling family and acquaintances about the excellence and cost effectiveness of the company’s work, Tonu has projects booked through until March of 2022. These include large commercial jobs and smaller residential jobs – excavations for driveways, concrete works […]
Black is the new white
Everything happens in the kitchen. With its key role as the setting to our lives, we need our backdrop to reflect who we are, allow us to function at our best, and of course, show us in our best light. The colour trends in our kitchen settings flowed from the oranges and […]
Pride and plastering
Does your home need a facelift? A fresh lip colour, a clean shave after a long day or a new haircut is often all it takes to feel rejuvenated. The same applies to your property. A fresh lick of paint, a stylish cladding addition for a feature wall, or some re-plastering maintenance, […]
Museum redevelopment consent
Canterbury Museum’s redevelopment plans have been given a green light. Resource consent has now been granted for the $195 million project, the concept designs for which include a blue whale skeleton on display in a new full-height atrium. Canterbury Museum Trust Board chair David Ayers says the consent is a major milestone […]
It’s a steel: Coresteel Canterbury & Kenneally Timber
The properties of steel make for impressive reading. Hardness, toughness, tensile, yield and fatigue strength, elongation, plasticity, ductility and malleability are a good place to start. With its base in iron, first smelted in 1200 BC, the applications for steel in the 21st century are limitless. You’ll find steel in everything from stadiums […]
