homestyle

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.

EDITOR’S NOTE

MOMENTS AT MY PLACE

Homestyle NZ

Style

Up to • Four spheres of ideas to inspire and entertain.

Broad spectrum • If you expand your repertoire of neutrals just a little, you’ll find a whole host of hues that deserve their day in the sun.

Care factor • With the expiry date of throwaway culture long since passed, editor Alice Lines has tips on how to style consciously and take care of your textiles for a look you can love always.

Home comfort • In warm, wintery hues, this colour-washed mural has a reassuring old-timey patina.

People

Nice weaves • A yarn with Coromandel Peninsula weaver and visual artist Kathryn Tsui, whose process is as considered as the pieces it produces.

Songs in the key of life • Wellington-based artist Christina Pataialii explores colour, memory, pop culture and history — often to a soundtrack of classic hits.

Best asset • Renovated room by room, Morven McAuley’s home is a sincere reflection of her true self.

Homes

HIGH STYLE • Expert attention to detail and a bird’s-eye view take a new build up a notch.

WITH ARMS WIDE OPEN • Everyone’s welcome here, where happiness is a full house.

EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED • Passersby would never guess what lies beyond this home’s stately porch.

SMALL CHANGE • So sensitive was the total restoration of this cottage, some can scarcely believe it.

Design

White direction • Dulux colour ambassador Alex Walls tells how she arrived at the ideal neutral hue for her and her husband Corban’s impeccable North Shore home.

Surface value • Time-honoured and on trend, coloured concrete’s got it all — and it’ll see you through, too.

Wait & see • A series of glass galleries overlooking a tidal estuary, this luxurious rural retreat reveals its riches little by little.

Living

Well & good • Little things that make life more liveable.

Slow thinking • Thoughtful, responsible… the principles of the slow movement read a lot like our manifesto. In her new book, Natalie Walton takes a stepwise approach.

Last word • Prak Sritharan of Wellington gallery Precinct 35 makes himself at home in Mt Victoria, where he appreciates simple pleasures.