Tony Milne from Rough Milne Mitchell wrote this latest column on a recent trip to Paris, where he enjoyed the magnificence of some of the city’s most famous parks.
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Creating backdrops for your space
With PlaceMakers, picturing how you want walls and ceilings to look is easy. From kitchen to bathroom and living, you’ll find everything needed to get you started in the latest PlaceMakers Interior Linings catalogue.
Smart lawn for easy autumn living
Having a patchy, untidy lawn is a real deterrent to making the most of this season’s golden days. Retrofit with natural look SmartGrass and enjoy a beautiful autumn in your outdoor space.
Naturally healthy heating
With efficient, natural warmth that’s easy on the eye and the environment, Herschel sheds some light on the benefits of low-carbon, sustainable far-infrared heating.
Finding gold in autumn
There’s nothing like the golden leaves and autumn sunshine to make you fall in love with a home at first sight. Rachael Cone from Total Realty shares her insights on selling a home this season.
Grounding browns
Rich, warm and reassuring – the grounding influence and earthy appeal of brown can warm up any room. Resene shows us how to bring this anchoring colour into our homes.
Clean, efficient heat
Using a wood burner doesn’t have to mean compromising on air quality. Heatstore tells us how ultra-low emission burners bring the natural warmth of fire without the environmental impact.
Beautiful bathroom style
Adding gorgeous handcrafted natural textures and tones to your next bathroom project is made easy at The Custom Creative design studio in Nelson, offering many inspiring options.
Small and impactful
Dean McGuigan from Golden Homes tells us which areas to focus on when bringing design trends into your home and how to create a visual impact that can be easily updated.
Natural and vibrant
If you need some inspiration for your summer project, Resene is here to help with a look at some of the biggest colour and design trends for 2023.
Inspired by nature
Using natural resources to create a sense of harmony between built and natural environments is the key to biophilic design. Lockwood explores this trend and how it’s thriving in its homes.
Renewed purpose
At Musgroves, sustainability and character go hand in hand.
The past informs the future
Tony Milne from Rough Milne Mitchell reflects on the return of Scandinavian minimalism and architectural simplicity in landscape design.
New year, new build?
As we launch into 2023, you may be looking to begin a new build or renovation. Katy Husband from Feather and Oak tells us how considering the interiors early in the project will bring the best results.
Gardens on high
Plants don’t have to be relegated to ground level. With the green roofs and walls from award-winning landscaping company Natural Habitats, gardens can defy gravity.
Functional luxury
Luxury is not simply generated through ‘a look’. For advice on how to create the experience of luxury and tips on what’s trending, we went to one of the world’s leading cabinetry hardware manufacturers, Hettich.
That’s wool, folks
Two modern powerhouses in the world of wool, Wilson and Dorset and Wisewool, have teamed up to bring a forward focus to the natural fibre, with an ambition to ditch synthetics.
Settling for more
With the housing market moving more in favour of buyers recently, Rachael Cone from Total Realty spoke with her busy South Island teams to share their insights on the top must-haves for home buyers.
Style and performance
Large oversized glazing continues to feature strongly in new high-end homes. But it's not just views that count, as building code compliance changes drive rising expectations on performance.
Sit back and relax
When investing in a sofa, it’s essential to find a dream piece that’s comfortable, stylish and perfectly suited to its space. BoConcept tells us how to find the right fit and reveals some of its most popular designs.