Window Treatment Overhaul: Officine Voluptas
“Twilight drops her curtain down and pins it with a star,” Lucy Maud Montgomery once said. If you are pulling your curtains at twilight and they fall off the rail, then a swift visit to Officine Voluptas, is written in your stars this spring. You’ll find everything you need to […]
The annual bout of spring fever: Terra Viva
It happens every year without fail! Looking out at the dismal garden on a grey July day I often wonder if we’ll summon the enthusiasm to ‘attack’ the garden once again. But sure enough, by mid-August we’re suddenly buzzing around like worker bees, dreaming of summer vegetables and flowering colour everywhere […]
Protecting your home investment: Craig South
For those preparing to make one of the biggest investments of their lives, building a new home, analysing and understanding all possible risk is paramount to ensuring a successful outcome. But where do you start? How can you protect yourself from all potential perils when planning for your future nest? […]
Top quality trending: Home Trends Builders
It takes a tight-knit, experienced team to consistently bring home Registered Master Builder awards, year on year. It’s something that Home Trends Builders Ltd (HTB) repeatedly achieves. The company recently garnered three gold medals and two silvers from its five entries. Home Trends Builders is accustomed to such success, despite […]
A growing service range: Oderings Landscaping
Oderings Landscaping is living up to its motto: Consult | Design | Create | Live. From the outset in 2016, Oderings Landscaping has gone from strength to strength, gaining a reputation as a professional and reliable landscaping specialist. Its point of difference is its level of industry experience and knowledge. […]
In its interior element: Armstrong Interiors
Design has no limits and neither does Armstrong Interiors. The team behind this local firm is passionate about all things interiors designing your dream kitchens, bathrooms and living spaces, both large and small. Working across new builds and renovations, incorporating the right mix of trends, textures, materials and colour […]
Creating an ‘extraordinary’ city: Jason Whitelaw
“There has to be a point of difference,” says Jason Whitelaw, hospitality specialist, developer, builder, foodie and regular globetrotter. Jason practices what he preaches; even back in in his living in London days, he ran an upmarket Mayfair pub – so far, very Kiwi, but Jason’s pub became renowned for […]
Geometric Vibes
This is a recipe for cool vibes at home: a blast of geometric wallpaper. ‘Blast’ is a technical term for one wall, but don’t hold back if you don’t want to. Go ahead and wallpaper the whole room. It may sound scary, but the reality of wallpaper these days […]
A Mediterranean Mecca: Lazeez Mediterranean Grill
Lazeez Mediterranean Grill has become a mecca for lovers of Mediterranean cuisine, since the opening of its immensely popular store in Shirley. However, the Lazeez story continues with the introduction of a new restaurant at Shop 24/9 in the heart of Rolleston. With plenty of seating inside and out, Lazeez Rolleston […]
Italian-style Heaven: The Birdwood
Everything you could want right in your neighbourhood is probably at The Birdwood in Beckenham. Nestled in a convivial locality near the Port hills, this place is both laid-back and authentic Unpretentiously industrial-vibed and operating from a previous shop corner, The Birdwood, or centre-for-superior-sustenance caters to both body and soul […]
