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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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Homestyle NZ

Style

Scout • We’ve been shopping for you and your home.

Power trips • A few deft moves with colour will take you on a journey and your home from so-so to whoa.

DOOR TO DOOR • Run by Te Pūtahi Centre for Architecture & City Making and scheduled for the weekend of April 30, the Open Christchurch festival will roll out the welcome mats at more than 40 of the city’s buildings of architectural excellence. Here, architectural historian and Te Pūtahi director Jessica Halliday predicts some residential highlights.

Softly spoken • You can make a statement with a colourful couch without it yelling, “Look at me!”

On the shelf • A read that might change the way you see things.

Gold-y blocks • Make your bedroom just right with zones in honey-ish hues and other shades, plus shapes designed to soothe.

YOU WIN • In partnership with the Designers Institute of New Zealand, we’ve got to hand it to the recently announced Gold Pin winners in the Residential Architecture, Residential Interior Architecture and Residential Interiors categories of the 2021 Best Design Awards.

STRANGER THINGS • Could music help you choose colours for your home? PPG Paints and Play It Strange are proving it’s not that big a stretch. PPG’s chief coloursmith Rachel Lacy tells how.

MAKE-IT-WORK MOOD BOARD

People

CORA-ALLAN WICKLIFFE CALLS HERSELF A “TRUE WESTIE”, BUT HER ART IS TRUE TO OTHER ASPECTS OF HER HERITAGE.

GENEVIEVE BLACK FELL INTO HER PROFESSION AND CAN’T ENVISAGE EVER FALLING OUT WITH IT.

Homes

BY A COUNTRY MILE • Meanwhile, back at the Ranch House, a young family is enjoying every minute in a home that’s their best yet.

THAT’S THE TRICK • Simultaneously small and big was part of the brief for this renovation. How hard could it be?

WE GOT THIS • Sometimes, opting to make the best of things can be an even more exciting prospect than starting over somewhere new.

Design

OH MAIMAI • In a word, wow. Here’s a home that honours heritage and place, yet is anything but what you’d expect.

INTO DETAIL • The transtasman talents behind Studio 11:11 are committed to creating beautiful spaces and crafting or sourcing the perfect pieces for them. We were committed to finding out more.

HER MAKING MARK • In the tradition of our Architecture+Women NZ series, Beth Cameron is helping to improve the world we’re living in one project at a time.