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Days spent sourcing properties to share with you often lead to nights trawling the internet for a dream home of my own. But after finding out that a couple of the houses we’ve featured this issue are available as holiday rentals, I got to thinking —

How easy on the eye is Stockholm-based Massproductions’ Bit side table? They believe that when you design smart, usable furniture, you don’t need flamboyant gestures, and like to make things multifunctional. This creation can work as an occasional ta

Game of tones Interiors are having a tonal moment, which is a look that’s perfectly suited to a laid-back table setting — and couldn’t be easier to achieve. First, get the bones right. Timber bench seats bolstered with cushions are ideal for accommod

Hare Interiors was challenged with converting an Auckland office block into an apartment — without changing its basic structure and while also making the most of its 180-degree sea views. Conversely, because the client works from home, the new reside

Long before Ali Johnson enrolled in art school, she’d experienced all kinds of different mediums. Making things was an integral part of her upbringing in rural Australia, and having already explored ceramics, woodwork and metalwork, felting and paper

Growing up, Katherine Throne always loved creating things, but then she got sick and missed three months of school, and had to drop her art class. She thought that was the end of it, and ultimately went on to get a degree in journalism, but, of cours

They’ve gone above and beyond the call of amazing-cabinet-food-and-Instaworthy-dishes-please duty with their Auckland cafés Little Sister, Hello Friends & Allies, Winona Forever, Major Tom, Rude Boy, Friday I’m In Love and Sugar, and recently opened

In the quiet Kapiti Coast town of Waikanae, a mid-century retreat fondly known as Riverbank offers its owners Tara Morton and Nick Walbridge an idyllic escape from their busy jobs in the nearby capital. Surrounded by rambling gardens, the home’s intr

Laurence Leenaert is 28 years old and thousands of kilometres from her comfort zone, but after three short years, she’s become an international success. In ‘If you love it so much, why don’t you move here?’ style, what was intended to be a two-month

Jackie Rainey has her exquisite new ensuite all to herself. The witty, whip-smart lawyer probably shouldn’t be surprised she’s succeeded in achieving this enviable state of affairs, yet she’s still not 100% sure how she swung it. Long may it last, th

In the quiet town of Billinudgel in the Northern Rivers region of Australia’s New South Wales is a dwelling that gives meaning to the words ‘sustainable living’. Here, Amanda Callan and Andrew Morris have repurposed a 1930s church into a family home

Ethical from seed to the shirt on your back, everything conscious clothing label Kowtow does is underscored by its sustainable values. True to form, its first collection of swimwear is crafted from regenerated nylon made from waste materials. If that

Tiny but mighty, this 74m home in Auckland’s Remuera punches well above its weight. It was conceived in the late ’60s, when artist Milan Mrkusich subdivided his land in this quiet cul-de-sac and asked architect Claude Megson to craft him a trio of re

> WAIHEKE ISLAND > SLEEPS 2 Architecturally designed and surrounded by tall trees, this sunny one-bedroom hideaway is all of five minutes’ walk from Little Oneroa Beach and 15 from Oneroa’s eateries and stores. If you don’t enjoy unwinding in the spa

My husband Simon Owen and I had been living in Australia’s Northern Territory for four years; I was a GP in a remote Aboriginal community and he was flying helicopters in Kakadu National Park. In 2016, we moved back to New Zealand when Simon got a jo