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There’s something humbling about being welcomed into a creative workplace. Filled with materials and pieces in progress, workshops and studios are by nature messy and there’s rarely any point in tidying up for a visitor, so when I’m in the position o

Extend your ‘get more greens’ resolution from your plate to your walls with paints from Dulux’s Cultivate collection. One of four palettes in the 2020 Dulux Colour Forecast, it features nature’s best verdant shades, all of which conjure a sense of re

Complete with a cosy nook, this space channels a mid-century domestic mood with a nostalgic palette of pastels punctuated by bold accents. - In children’s bedrooms, nooks such as this offer a nifty way to separate play and study zones from the slee

If you don’t have a home office but really need to take care of business, create a dedicated study nook in another space that’s as good-looking as it is comfortable and functional. Make it a highlight not a blight on the rest of the room by investing

Devyn Ormsby has been drawn to art all her life. Four years after graduating from Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts, she says she feels very fortunate to be able to work in a creative field — but she’s so talented we think she had it coming. So, De

Auckland’s Janice Kumar-Ward is one hard-working lady. When she’s not pushing boundaries at the helm of JKW Interior Architecture & Design and parenting her children Stella and Ted, she’s working on her side hustle as the ‘Mrs’ of Mr & Mrs Ward, the

From humble beginnings in their parents’ sheds, George and Willy the duo has grown into George & Willy the team, and with a renovated office and an edited-down range, their business has never felt better. We asked them all about it. When did you deci

High on a hill in Te Arai, just south of Northland’s Mangawhai, sits a home that has views as far as the eye can see. With the tinkle of a yet-to-be-explored waterfall dancing on the breeze and plenty of room to roam, if you ask Melanie and James Sax

One-year-old George Hosking may not be an architect like his mum or a builder like his dad, but he’s a hands-on judge of form-follows-function design. Now that he’s getting around a bit more, he can vouch for many elements in the Avondale, Auckland h

No one wants to hear a bump in the night, and when it’s accompanied by shakes, rattles and having to roll out of bed, it’s even less of a good sign. For the owners of this home, the adrenaline-pumping action turned a straight-forward renovation into

French interior designer Delly Marton was given carte blanche to renovate this apartment in the centre of Bordeaux, France. The white tiling and roughcast now done away with, the interior emanates an elegant and refined ambience, from the hammam down

Life is but a dream when you’re surrounded by Auckland designer Emma Hayes’ painterly wallpaper. Her designs abstracted from nature include the just-released Bloom (above left, in Smoke), which features dynamic shapes that appear to billow and disper

A house in the country was something Zandra and Robert Dol had envisioned for their family for quite some time. After moving from Auckland to Hamilton, they’d been steadily looking for a slice of rural land, but when the right property failed to mate

If, on your next beachside break, you happen upon a young girl set up at a table outside a big white bus who offers to braid your hair, it’s probably Summer Sterne. The seven-year-old likes to channel her entrepreneurial spirit while her parents, Ren

A worthy opponent for sun and sea breezes and also quite the looker, this surf tent is a rare blend of practical and totally cool. One of several by Sydney’s Basil Bangs in lightweight UPF50+ canvas, it is adjustable to three heights on sand or grass

When sisters Carmel and Milly Van Der Hoeven aren’t working as an artist (at George Sand Studio) and a flower farmer/stylist (at Primm Gardens) respectively, they join forces to share their passion projects with fellow plant and ceramics enthusiasts

In eras past, Oita — a prefecture on the island of Kyushu in south-western Japan — was known as Toyo no kuni, meaning ‘land of abundance’. The term was coined to reflect the vast array of food on offer from the mountains and the sea, and the concept

Tokyo is one of those cities where no matter how long you stay, you’re only ever going to scratch the surface. It’d been five years since I last visited, and this time, rather than hit up the central haunts, with the help of travel providers JTB I pr