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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

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 bes

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

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 caterin

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 ou

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 p

What with lockdown dovetailing with winter, it’s fair to say movies have been the order of the day and night. Everyone loves inhabiting fictional worlds, but what if you could live in them for real? We’ve rounded up some cinematic interiors we wouldn

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 coa

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

Upping sticks with her family from Auckland to Tairua in 2016 got visual artist Kathryn Tsui thinking about learning to weave as an extension of her creative practice. She bought a basic loom off Trade Me to learn with — and she was away. So, Kathry

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

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 p

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

“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

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 ac