Innholdsfortegnelse for June/July 2020 i homestyle

“Our take on home as a place to take refuge resonates more deeply now than ever.” Made in our homes for your home, this issue saw the homestyle team working together apart. It’s been an interesting experience communicating virtually through emails, calls, FaceTime and Zoom meetings, while sliding into each other’s DMs with of-the-moment memes to lighten the mood. Fortuitously, we wrapped our last shoot for this issue just days before New Zealand went into Level 4 lockdown. Pre-COVID almost feels like another lifetime, but the stories we’re sharing here feel no less relevant — in fact, our take on home as a place to take refuge resonates more deeply now than ever. Of course, real life has its less serene moments, and somewhere between the third failed loaf of…

Save, invest, buy less Like falling back on fast fashion for your wardrobe, it’s easy to get sucked in by the quick-fix homeware cycle. However, when you step back a bit, you’ll find there’s something really enjoyable about the seemingly old-fashioned process of seeking out just the right pieces and saving up to buy them in order to craft an interior that’s pleasingly unique. A big part of this approach is narrowing in on your forever style, and to do this, it’s useful to contemplate your ‘interior personality’. Knowing what you really love to live with will help inform your purchasing decisions so you’re not left paralysed by choice. Ask yourself questions such as: ‘Am I a layered neutrals person or do I have more fun when embracing pops of…

Since graduating from Whitecliffe in 2018 with a Master of Fine Arts, mum-of-one Christina Pataialii has been flat tack, making works and showing throughout Aotearoa. Last year, she travelled to Europe to take up a residency at London’s Gasworks, and earlier this year she announced her first gallery representation in New Zealand with Wellington’s McLeavey Gallery, where she has an upcoming exhibition. So, Christina, how has your aesthetic evolved? I think the changes have been most obvious in my move from material to pictorial interests, but these two aspects move back and forwards. I’ve been really interested in colour as a signifier and am exploring the way it relates to memory, and the notion of imagined memory. The works for me are still experimental, which is how I like them…

THE PROJECT Hairdresser and farm manager Natasha Hintz and her farmer husband Brenden built this four-bedroom home in New Plymouth's Tarurutangi for themselves, their children Micah (24), Joby (20) and Keeva (17), and anyone else who needs it. At 5’2”, Natasha Hintz is one petite powerhouse. The average week sees this marathon-running superwoman wrangling five farms, a hair salon, home projects, a busy household and several kids — and not just her own, either. Natasha and her farmer husband Brenden have been taking in children in need since they themselves were young. “Our home is like hire-a-family,” she says. “We have our own adult kids and lots of extras we inherit — and we built this house for exactly that. People might stay for a night or six months —…

So, Alex, what was the first step in selecting the colour and material heroes for your place (as seen on page 48)? Before Corban and I decided on anything, I went down to the beach at nearby Island Bay and took loads of photos of its rocky cliffs. I’ve been going there my whole life, so I know how beautiful it is with its limestone, clay, terracotta and slate grey — layers of time. When did you start integrating your preferred options into Fraser Horton’s architectural design process? We always knew we’d feature cedar timber on the exterior, but one of our first big decisions was what material to use for the wall that wraps around the front of the property and becomes both an exterior and interior element of…

AM I FRENCH YET? Realise your true chic potential with this Joella trench coat — the ultimate timeless, transeasonal, dress-it-up, dress-it-down essential. From Ingrid Starnes’ Winter 2020 collection, it’s classic with ruched belt and voluminous cape twists, and sewn to order just pour vous. ingridstarnes.com KAWA CHAMELEON This three-ingredient remedy turns kawakawa into a potent multi-purpose salve. One of several products sustainably made by Aotea at their Great Barrier Island base, its formula is informed by both the principles of Māori medicine and scientific research into the superpowers of plants. aoteamade.co.nz UP YOUR GAME When you’ve played enough Monopoly to last you a lifetime, it’s time to deal a more sophisticated hand. These cards are illustrated exclusively for Fourth St by Guy Oscar Brock, whose work you might have admired…

Get the look 1. Paint your walls with two coats of the main base colours that will form the largest areas of your mural — we used Resene Half Linen and Resene Half Gauntlet. Allow to dry. 2. Measure and mask with painter’s tape the first geometric shape you’ll paint over the top. Paint this shape and leave to dry, then remove the tape and mask the next shape. We used Resene Gold Coast, Resene Half New Denim Blue, Resene Hairy Heath, Resene Warrior and Resene Half Ironsand. 3. Creating each colour one by one, combine Resene FX Paint Effects with a testpot paint in a corresponding darker colour for each section of the mural at a ratio of 95% Resene FX Paint Effects and 5% Resene testpot colour (see…

Founder of creative ideas agency Tradecraft, Morven McAuley, says her Auckland home allows her complete freedom of expression. In a world in which so many people struggle to buy a house, she’s acutely aware that having one to make her own is a real privilege, and figures that if she stays content in her little spot, she’s also leaving another house free out there for someone else to make theirs. So Morven, how did you find your slice of urban paradise? I bought this house in 2006; it checked all the boxes. A 1930s build, it’s sound and small, so the maintenance is affordable, and it has great off-street parking and a relatively private backyard. Its location in Sandringham appealed to me too for its cultural hum and diversity. What…

Business-as-usual in the front and party-ready in the back, there’s more to this villa than anyone would suppose from the street. Thanks to a thoughtful renovation driven by the finest design details, it gently embraces the best of both while catering impeccably to its inhabitants’ interests. Looking pretty passé after an update in the early 2000s, the circa 1910 Ponsonby villa wasn’t Amber Coulter and Andrew Lewis’s dream home when they discovered it, but they signed up knowing one day they’d make it ‘them’. Eight years after moving in, they moved out into a rental across the road, ready to roll with a reno. Along with builders Crate, cabinetmaker Cameron Grey and landscape designer Andy Hamilton Studio, Jose Gutierrez (who’d previously designed two award-winning office fit-outs for their insight agency…

Those in the know might recognise this courtyard from our February/March issue, in which we brought you the Auckland home of Maria and James Hosking (revisit it at homestyle.co.nz). Their modern abode has been renovated to include the best of the best-looking materials and design details, among them the coloured concrete that makes their outdoors great — and their indoors too. The couple picked PFL 155 from Peter Fell’s Neutral range — one of 80-plus handsome hues available from the expert Kiwi company that also offers bespoke shades. On-point and practical don’t always go hand in hand, but coloured concrete brings both, plus thermal benefits that help keep your home warm in winter and cool for the summer. And as well as catering to your choice of colour, Peter Fell…

CREATE A VISION We can live more responsibly at home when we consider that our decisions have an impact not just on the world today but on the form it will take tomorrow. If we have choice, we also have power, and this position of privilege is something we should acknowledge and respect. It can inform the vision of the world we want to create and the journey that’s needed to make it possible. So let’s consider our legacy. What mark do we want to leave on the world? How do we want to be remembered? What gift do we have to give? To this end, we can consider the Japanese concept of ikigai — a reason for being — which relates to what we consider to be of value…

Colour, but keep it neutral? If that’s your vibe, we’re with you — and so is this new Copenhagen gallery, Alium (above), which blurs the lines between art, design and interiors by displaying items as if in situ at home. Aside from the novel concept, what these spaces do so well is introduce subtle, not shouty, colour to a neutral palette — something you could easily and inexpensively try at your place with paint. Appealingly grounded hues that riff off coal, rust, stone and moss are a reminder that there’s a spectrum of interesting near-neutrals to explore while staying true to an elegantly understated style.…

Alex and Corban Walls are big ideas people, and when they chanced on an empty section in Island Bay on Auckland’s North Shore that to others may have presented only challenges, they inevitably saw opportunity. Having grown up nearby, to Alex this coastal area with pockets of native bush has always been home, so on discovering a site that their budget could manageably stretch to, she and Corban jumped at the chance to let life come full circle and give their kids Austen and Goldie a childhood like the one she treasured. Designing a house to fit this steep swathe of land was no mean feat. Teaming up with friend and architect Fraser Horton, the couple faced height restrictions, a public sewer, a power pole in the middle of the…

THE PROJECT Education consultant Stine Ny Jensen and her carpenter husband Andreas Buchard renovated this two-bedroom home in Odsherred, Denmark for themselves and their children Vilbert (5) and Herman (3). Having spent many a holiday at a relative’s diminutive dwelling on the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, Danish couple Stine Ny Jensen and Andreas Buchard were well-versed in the cottage-away-from-home life, and more and more, Andreas especially began to wish for one of their own. He fantasised about creating a sweet family sanctuary that would also provide their young sons Vilbert and Herman with experiences their — admittedly lovely — Copenhagen apartment couldn’t, so he and Stine started hunting out home ads, embarking on a daily search. “The more we looked, the more I liked the idea, but…

Down a narrow, tree-lined driveway at the end of a cul-de-sac, in a pretty special subdivision on the edge of an estuary, sits a house that the seed of an idea built. A busy working couple seeking to leave their Auckland City abode for the quiet calm of Riverhead half an hour north, its owners had held onto this unique piece of land while they let their wish-list germinate. They dreamed of a country retreat that would be a luxurious dwelling for two, yet expand to welcome their older children, future grandchildren and guests when they came to stay. The spectacular result of their imagination and that of Young & Richards Architecture, project-led by Harriet Pilkington and Elvon Young, is a three-wing, four-bedroom work of art — a series of…

“I split my time between my place and the home of my girlfriend Nadya France-White, who runs Wellington boutique ENA and also lives in Mt Vic, in a classic old villa with a magic view of the harbour. I love this area most when I can leave Precinct 35 at 5pm, head to Moore Wilson’s to grab some bits for dinner, then make it out for a quick run through the trees before settling in for something delicious by candlelight. To me, living thoughtfully means doing even simple tasks with purpose. Making the bed, brewing coffee… not being distracted while doing them can be really rewarding and a nice way to get out of your head for a moment. It’s hard to say what guides my homeware purchases because not…