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 displays, and […]
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 area of […]
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 stylish range […]
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 who are […]
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. When it […]
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 BY NINA […]
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 home and […]
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 born. Soon […]
The right impact: Impact Outdoors
First appearances count, and that is especially true with homes, and how they look. Some additions, alterations and tweaks will add street appeal, value, and create better indoor/outdoor use, while others won’t. If you want to transform your outdoor living spaces into seamless extensions of your home’s refined aesthetic, you need to talk to the […]
Latest trends on show
Building, renovating, or freshening up a home means keeping up with the Joneses, or rather the latest trends. According to New Zealand Registered Master Builders, 2024 building trends highlight a commitment to sustainability, technology, flexibility and personalisation. With standard homes currently said to cost $3500 to $4000 average per square metre, and prestige one-off designed […]
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