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Design Notebook

Jun 2, 2019

How did you avoid the high cost of earthworks on a site like this? GERALD PARSONSON We used the old structure from the original house. A normal Kiwi house is timber. This had concrete columns, steel beams and a concrete floor. The old house was done

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WHAT IT’S LIKE TO LIVE IN... An energy-efficient house

Apr 30, 2020

In a traditional house you get hot spots – near the fire or the Aga, for instance – and cold unheated spaces such as spare bedrooms. In an energy-efficient house you just get an even temperature in every room — a solid slab of heat. I once heard the

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Renovation Q&A

Jun 28, 2022

Tell us about your house… It was built in 1900 as a holiday home for an Edinburgh GP and his wife, in the seaside town of Nairn – only a few steps from the beach. It’s been lived in by very few families over the years and has kept a lot of its featur

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Renovation Q&A

Jun 28, 2022

Tell us about your house… It was built in 1900 as a holiday home for an Edinburgh GP and his wife, in the seaside town of Nairn – only a few steps from the beach. It’s been lived in by very few families over the years and has kept a lot of its featur

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THE GREAT outdoors

Oct 14, 2019

This month’s issue, with its focus on outdoor living, brought back one of my earliest memories – waiting on the veranda of my grandparents’ house for my parents to bring my new baby brother home from the hospital. A lovely place to wait, it had decor

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Kitchen Extension Diary

Sep 26, 2019

Flat roofs are notoriously tricky fish to fry. Or they are if you don’t get the gradients precisely right so that puddles don’t form. Oh, and you get it watertight obvs. I’ve heard lots of horror stories, and experienced them, too. In our last home,

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Hair-raising Houses

Oct 4, 2023

Not only is the Upside Down House upside down, but everything in it is too. The house was built as part of an exhibition to attract tourists in Germany and has chairs, tables and carpets -- all stuck to the ceiling! Some people who go inside say they