Country comes to town: Lushingtons Garden Gifts and Cafe
Delight the senses with a break in Ashburton on your journey down south. This destination is a treat for a few hours with friends or a soul-restoring solo escape. Ashburton’s Lushingtons Garden Gifts and Café is a trove of pleasure. The garden centre is award-winning, and you can see why, with its beautiful […]
Your home’s little nest
Cute, quaint, and fabulous space-savers, nest tables are a re-emerging trend as people look to maximise their rooms. Typically, they come in sets of two, three, or four. Each table in the set gets progressively smaller in size so they can be ‘stacked’ together. So when you need it, you have the surface […]
The renovation experts: A1 Group
Having renovations carried out in your home, especially to a kitchen or bathroom can be very disruptive to both your daily life and personal space. Under such circumstances, it is vital for you to know you have engaged trustworthy and truly professional tradespeople. From the colourful, well-designed branding of their vehicles to the […]
The golden touch: Golden Homes
Current building costs could have you resigned to compromises. You might be thinking the beautiful kitchen and bathroom you dreamed of are destined to remain a dream. Happily, the Golden Homes team has solutions. “We have huge capability under our brand,” says local branch co-owner Dean McGuigan. “We have the advantage of suppliers […]
Go local
Diverse, resilient, and incredibly innovative. Canterbury is filled with thousands of bright thinkers bringing solutions to the way we live and work. The good news is you can find many of them at the Canterbury Home Show, offering their insight and experience for products and services soon to become lifesavers in your day-to-day. […]
Lift your game
Art Deco is all around us. If you have ever wanted to inject some edge, a dash of difference to your home, now is the time to embrace all the quirks in recent homeware collections. With events season just around the corner, it’s the ideal opportunity to truly get your guests talking. CURATED […]
Add harmony to your home
Turning your home into a happy, healthy environment may be as easy as adopting the principles of the ancient Chinese form of feng shui. The name (pronounced fung schway) literally means wind-water and is believed by many to use energy forces to harmonise individuals with their surrounding environment. Practitioners arrange objects in their […]
Garden tourism
Local homes and gardens in gorgeous rural settings, each with its own story. Garden tours have been long-loved since their origins across the globe. Drawing from differing cultures and life practices, through royal and religious spaces, countries worldwide developed signature home and garden styles that others yearned to visit. Thus, ‘garden tourism’ was […]
Explore, be inspired
A home show stands out. It’s not a detached online shopping experience, or an afternoon racing around the city looking at multiple stores in search of one product. It’s more than tangible, it’s the ease of having everything you could dream of for your home and garden under one roof, plus all of […]
New location, same great service: Carpet Binders
Getting rug ready is easy in Christchurch, with a spacious all-in-one carpet and rug binding premises, newly open in Sockburn. Once working across three separate buildings, to now in one easily accessible premises. Carpetbinders is highly respected for quality carpet edging and binding services with a personal touch. With five decades of experience […]
