homestyle

homestyle is New Zealand’s freshest home and lifestyle magazine. With a focus on clever ideas and intelligent spending, homestyle offers a mix of accessible luxury and practical inspiration giving you the confidence to create your own living environment with a personal touch. From new homes, to renovations and even rentals, homestyle is the magazine for anyone looking to transform their house into a home.

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home style

Scout • We’ve been shopping for your home.

Exhibit A • Top of our list of things to do in June is a show that sees artists on the scent of introduced plants.

On the shelf • Change the way you see your world.

Edge ways • One thing in particular in this updated apartment has us border-line obsessed.

Book smart • Creative director Emily Priest of Cheshire Architects walks and talks us through The Libraries, the intelligent new function rooms at Auckland’s The Hotel Britomart that you can hire for your next rendezvous.

FOOD FOR THE SOUL • Facing a future that shows no sign of slowing, we introduce another kind of nourishment that’s about more than what goes in your mouth. Here’s how to put it on the menu.

Choc full • Sample all kinds of cocoa-ish colours and textures for an entry that’s an all-around treat.

THE WHOLE SPECTRUM • Not that this is a therapy session, but how do you feel about colour? Writer and convert Rosie Dawson-Hewes offers ideas for using it — or not.

Circles of life • Beauty comes in all shapes and forms, and this one can really make your days.

EMERGING TALENT ANDREA BOLIMA IS OPEN TO POSSIBILITY, WHICH SUBTLY SHOWS IN HER WORK.

FROM CRAFTING PIECES IN HIS GARAGE TO THE HELM OF KILLER BRAND DEADLY PONIES, LIAM BOWDEN’S COME A LONG WAY.

LOU ASHFORD OF SNICK MAKES UPHOLSTERY COOL AND HER SEATING IS PRETTY DAMN SNAZZY.

Homes

HALL ORDER • Getting what they wished for has so far been an extensive but super-rewarding process for this couple.

NOTHING ELSE MATTERS • What’s important to this family is how their home makes them feel.

MAJOR DETAILS • The owners of this villa thought they knew what they were getting, but it wasn’t till they moved in that they discovered…

JUST YOU WAIT • This interior designer let time lead his heart to décor that proves patience is definitely a virtue.

Brush with history • You’ve read how Jess Britten and Warren Durling are living their dream in their 1907 hall — now dive deeper into how they wrote the next chapter of its colourful life.

PEAK PERFORMERS • These gabled pavilions are much more than just roofs over their owners’ heads.

For the best • Continuing our Architecture+Women NZ series, we had a chat to Kate Rogan and Eva Nash of Auckland’s Rogan Nash Architects.

art Modern • Coloured concrete offers endless potential for creativity, and the positives don’t stop there.

Living

Well & good • Everyday delights that make life more liveable.

Good for you • Thinking about making a change for the better? Great stuff! The movement starts at home, where you can waste not and want not.

Culinary journey • A real trip for your taste buds, at just-opened bar-taverna Daphnes, Greece is the word.

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