A huge woodstore which Judy arranged “willy nilly”, lends to the rustic nature of the building. Judy loves a morning coffee on the covered verandah.
A selection of La Chamba cookware populates the open shelves in the kitchen.
In the main bedroom, a large picture window, with a sliding cedar shutter for privacy and shade, looks out onto the meadow and a swathe of miscanthus.
A simple barn in a meadow. That's what Judy Johnson dreamed of. Little could she have imagined, though, that it would emerge alongside the Tukituki River and in the lee of the sleeping giant that is Te Mata Peak in Te Matau-a-Māui/Hawke's Bay. Although Judy had visited the region for garden tours, she never entertained the idea of living here until her daughter married and moved to the region from Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland. “I began to think, ‘Wouldn't it be amazing if I could build?’” she says.
Judy trained
