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September 2026

Bathroom bliss

nce regarded simply as practical spaces, bathrooms are now being designed with a stronger focus on comfort, aesthetics and everyday usability. Across New Zealand, homeowners are opting for layouts and features that create a sense of calm while also meeting the demands of modern family life. As a result, current trends focus on creating rooms that feel relaxing, efficient and visually appealing. Recent industry commentary highlights a strong move towards wellnessfocused spaces, natural finishes and thoughtful design choices. One of the biggest trends is the creation of spa-inspired environments. Many homeowners are choosing features that encourage relaxation, such as generous walkin showers, deep baths and lighting that can be adjusted to suit different moods. Soft lighting, warm textures and uncluttered layouts help transform the bathroom into a calming retreat. The aim is to create a space that supports wellbeing and offers a peaceful place to start and end the day. Natural influences continue to shape bathroom design across the country. Materials and colours inspired by the environment are being used to create a warm and welcoming atmosphere. Stone-look surfaces, timber accents and organic textures help soften the appearance of the room and add character. Indoor plants are also a popular addition, bringing freshness and reinforcing the connection between the home and the natural world. Colour palettes are evolving as well. While white remains a popular choice, many homeowners are introducing warmer and more expressive tones. Shades of green, beige, clay and soft blue are being used to add personality while maintaining a calm aesthetic. Deeper colours are

also appearing in cabinetry, tiles and feature walls, creating contrast and visual depth without overwhelming the space. Another key trend is the preference for clean, streamlined finishes. Largeformat tiles and minimal grout lines create a more seamless appearance and can make smaller bathrooms feel more spacious. Floating vanities and wall-mounted fixtures contribute to a contemporary look while also improving floor space and ease of cleaning. These simple design choices help achieve a balance between form and function. Sustainability is also influencing bathroom design

choices. Many New Zealand homeowners are looking for products and materials that offer durability and longevity, reducing the need for frequent replacement. Waterefficient fixtures, energy-saving lighting and hard-wearing surfaces are increasingly popular as people seek to balance environmental responsibility with modern style and performance. Storage remains a major consideration in modern bathroom design. Homeowners are seeking practical ways to keep everyday items organised and out of sight. Builtin shelving, recessed shower niches and well-designed cabinetry allow for efficient storage without adding clutter. A tidy and organised bathroom supports the clean, restful atmosphere many people are trying to achieve.

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The value of home staging

hen it comes to selling a home, ﬁrst impressions matter. Home staging has become a popular way for vendors to present their properties in the best possible light. Whether it’s a full staging package or a more affordable partial staging service, the goal remains the same: helping potential buyers imagine themselves living in the space.

for vacant properties. Every major room is furnished and styled, often including the living areas, bedrooms, dining room and outdoor entertaining spaces. The result is a polished presentation that photographs well and creates a positive impression during open homes. With more buyers beginning their property search online, attractive listing photos have become increasingly important.

Home staging involves furnishing and styling a property to enhance its appeal. Professional stagers use furniture, artwork, soft furnishings and décor to create a welcoming atmosphere that highlights a home’s strengths. Empty rooms can often appear smaller and lack warmth, while a wellstaged home helps buyers understand how spaces can be used and connected.

However, full staging is not always necessary. Partial home staging has emerged as a practical alternative for homeowners who are still living in their property while it is on the market. In this approach, stagers work with the existing furniture and possessions, supplementing them with carefully selected items where needed.

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A partial staging project might involve replacing bulky furniture with pieces

that better suit the room, introducing fresh cushions, rugs and artwork, or reorganising layouts to improve ﬂow. The aim is to maximise visual appeal without completely transforming the home. For many homeowners, this option can provide a balance between presentation and budget. One of the biggest advantages of partial staging is that it helps declutter a property. Personal collections, excess furniture and family photographs can sometimes distract buyers from seeing the home’s features. By simplifying rooms and creating a sense of space, partial staging allows architectural elements and key selling points to take centre stage. New Zealand homes vary considerably, from character villas and bungalows to contemporary townhouses and rural

lifestyle properties. Effective staging takes these differences into account, tailoring the presentation to suit the style of the home and the likely buyer demographic. A coastal property, for example, may beneﬁt from a light, relaxed aesthetic, while a modern urban home may suit a cleaner, minimalist approach. Ultimately, both full and partial staging are about storytelling. They help buyers form an emotional connection with a property and envision a future there. While staging is no guarantee of a sale, many vendors view it as a worthwhile investment in marketing their home. As buyer expectations continue to evolve, thoughtful presentation remains one of the most effective tools available when bringing a property to market.

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The business places a strong emphasis on workmanship and customer satisfaction, describing its approach as being built on trust, local values and practical service. As Hawke’s Bay continues to grow, demand remains strong for contractors who combine versatility with traditional values of honesty and quality workmanship.

The Hawke’s Bay community has faced signiﬁcant challenges in recent years, highlighting the importance of dependable local businesses. Companies such as Milbrook Contracting play a valuable role in supporting the region by providing services grounded in local knowledge, hard work and reliability.

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Working with wallpaper… off the wall

t may be in the name, but wallpaper is not just for walls. In fact, the beauty of wallpaper is that it can be applied to most ﬂat surfaces, giving you endless options to work with it. With Resene’s wide range of wallpaper on offer, from art deco prints to tropical motifs, there’s a design to suit every style. In this bedroom, we’ve used Resene Wallpaper Collection 39653-1, an Easternstyle print with foliage of red, blues and earthy browns. These feature on the drawers and bedhead, applied after each piece was painted in Resene Night Magic.

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Resene Night Magic, a deep charcoal, frames the wallpaper accents perfectly, picking up on the ﬂecks of black in the wallpaper pattern. The earthy tones are further picked up by the bedroom walls, painted in creamy Resene Spanish White, and bed furnishings. Blue greens are met with similar hues in the bedding and lampshades. This is a great example of how exciting it is to play with texture and colour and how easy it is to introduce a pattern with wallpaper into already established decor. Want to learn how?

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Her journey with glass began in Liverpool in 2003 while working for a social enterprise focused on recycling and youth training.

Loop Glass is a new kiln-forming studio at the east end of Wairoa’s main street where Woodhead creates beautiful and functional pieces from 100 percent recycled glass.

“I didn’t know much about glass, so I learned on the job with the trainees.”

rances Woodhead and Bruce Kemp have realised their vision of transforming a derelict heritage building into a modern apartment, glass studio and gallery in the heart of Wairoa.

No strangers to ambitious projects, the couple had previously converted an old stone byre into a glass art studio on the Isle of Tiree in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides before making the move to New Zealand. The Wairoa renovation took six years to complete. One of the first tasks was removing a 200mm-thick sloping concrete overlay floor. Significant structural work followed, including new foundation beams and reinforced concrete shear walls to bring the building up to earthquake standards. Woodhead restored missing leadlight windows on the first floor, while the shopfront was rebuilt with traditional timber joinery, including an Edwardian-style inset doorway, with support from Heritage New Zealand.

Frances Woodhead at her glass studio and gallery in Wairoa.

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The result is a bright, welcoming gallery space at street level and an apartment above where the couple now live. Originally from Primrose Hill in London, Woodhead says Wairoa reminds her of the close-knit community she grew up in. “Wairoa has that village feel. It reminds me of Primrose Hill with a local library, where you see the same characters every day and go to the same corner shop,” she said. Woodhead ﬁrst visited New Zealand as a traveller. “I always wanted to return and ﬁnally emigrated 10 years later.”

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“I was employed to develop a glass recycling social enterprise alongside training young people.

After returning to New Zealand, she settled in Nelson and established Nelson Glasshouse. In 2009 she moved to Scotland to be with Kemp, taking her kiln with her and creating Tiree Glass. “A glass artist has a very close relationship with their kiln,” she said. Life on Tiree revolved around the seasons, with busy summers and quieter winters devoted to creating new work and experimenting with ideas. In 2019, the couple made the decision to relocate to New Zealand and eventually settled in Wairoa. “We weren’t sure at all but this building kind of clinched it. The east end block is pretty special. It has lots of history.” She describes Wairoa as vibrant, friendly and supportive, with a growing creative scene that includes galleries, workshops and the historic Gaiety Theatre. “There is a lot happening in our little zone. It’s really evolving.” The building, dating back to 1914, measures 160 square metres on each ﬂoor and required extensive strengthening. “It was only 15 percent NBS when we got it, which is earthquake-prone, and it’d been empty for a long time.” Everything had to be brought up to modern standards, including ﬁre compliance and the installation of a staircase linking the two levels.

“We got it for a good price but that was just a down payment really in terms of what we had to spend on it,” Kemp said. Despite the challenges, combining home and workspace under one roof has proved worthwhile. “It’s a great model being able to share the rates between a home and workspace.” Woodhead’s environmental values are reﬂected in every aspect of her work. Holding a degree in environmental science, she is conscious of the resources required to manufacture glass and has chosen to work exclusively with recycled materials. She sees her practice as part of a circular economy that reduces demand for virgin resources while giving discarded materials a second life. “Whilst my choice to use only recycled materials is not going to change the world, it has the potential to make life more creative Left is the derelict 1914 building. Right, builder Bruce Kemp and glass artist Frances Woodhead have completed the renovation of their heritage building on Marine Parade in Wairoa.

The gallery is open Wednesday to Saturday 10am-3pm. It’s also listed in the Hawkes Bay Arts Trail and will open for the weekends of 7 & 8 of November and 14 &15 November.

whilst making a contribution to issues like global warming and ocean acidiﬁcation and more local habitat loss.”

She says there is no compromise in quality, but the technical constraints encourage experimentation and innovation.

Using recycled glass reduces the need for mining and transporting raw materials such as sand, limestone and sodium carbonate, all of which contribute to carbon emissions during production.

After years of producing work for busy galleries and shops in Nelson and Scotland, Woodhead hopes the slower pace of life in Wairoa will allow more time to develop new ideas and larger projects.

Working with waste glass also presents unique artistic challenges.

Earlier in the year she exhibited at Gisborne’s Affordable Art Exhibition, selling a range of pieces from large bowls to smaller decorative works.

“Most glass artists use glasses speciﬁcally made for the job and each colour is compatible with the other one. If you start with waste glass you’ve got limitations, but those limitations become part of the creative process.”

The gallery was the ﬁnal stage of the building’s transformation, and reopening the kiln after years focused on construction has been especially rewarding.

“It’s great to be creating again,” she said. Comparing Wairoa with her former home in Scotland, she sees one clear advantage. “The weather is tamer.” Today, Loop Glass stands as more than just a studio and gallery. It is the culmination of a six-year restoration project, a commitment to sustainability and a shared belief that historic buildings can be given a new purpose while retaining their connection to the past. This article ﬁrst appeared in the Gisborne Herald in June 2026.

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Reclaiming the heart of the home

he living room was once a warm, welcoming space where families naturally gathered to share stories, watch a favourite movie, or simply unwind. Decades ago, this room was intentionally built for human connection. Today, however, that shared sanctuary is quietly fading away, replaced by individual screens, demanding schedules, and a subtle shift in how we connect with the people under our own roofs. The biggest change in the modern living room isn’t the furniture, but how we interact within the space. The rise of smartphones and noise-cancelling headphones means that even when sitting side-by-side on the couch, we are often worlds apart. Four family members can occupy the same sectional

sofa while existing in completely different digital realities - one watching a video, another texting, and another caught up in a podcast. We are physically present but socially distant, turning the family room into a communal charging station rather than a hub for genuine conversation. This shift accelerated dramatically when remote work entered our homes. Suddenly, the traditional boundaries between professional stress and domestic comfort dissolved. The living room couch, once reserved for pure relaxation, was quickly drafted into corporate service as a makeshift ofﬁce desk. When a single room functions as a boardroom by day and a sanctuary by night, it inevitably loses its relaxing magic.

The lingering energy of a difﬁcult workday stays trapped in the cushions, causing family members to retreat to their separate bedrooms just to ﬁnd a little privacy and peace.

everyday comfort, we create spaces that are inhospitable to the messy, joyful realities of family life.

At the same time, social media pressure has changed how our homes look and feel. We are ﬂooded with online images of perfectly curated, hyper-minimalist living rooms featuring pristine white couches and immaculate, untouched decor. While these spaces look beautiful in photos, they often feel too sterile for real life. A true living room should be a comfortable place where you can kick off your shoes, spill some popcorn, and feel completely at ease. When we prioritize a rigid aesthetic over

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One of the biggest beneﬁts of smart appliances is convenience. Many appliances can be monitored and controlled remotely using a smartphone or tablet. For example, a homeowner can start a load of washing while at work, adjust the temperature of a smart oven on the way

Energy efﬁciency is another major advantage. Many smart appliances are designed to optimise energy use by operating during off-peak periods or adjusting performance based on demand. Smart thermostats, water heaters and airconditioning systems can learn household routines and automatically make adjustments to reduce energy consumption. Over time, these savings can help lower power bills and reduce a household’s environmental footprint.

mart appliances are becoming a familiar feature in many New Zealand homes. From refrigerators that monitor food supplies to washing machines controlled by smartphone apps, these internet-connected devices promise greater convenience and efﬁciency. While smart technology offers many advantages, there are also some drawbacks that homeowners should consider before investing.

Smart appliances can also provide useful maintenance alerts. Rather than waiting for a machine to fail, some devices can detect potential problems and notify owners before a breakdown occurs. This can help extend the lifespan of appliances and reduce costly repair bills. In some cases, manufacturers can even diagnose faults remotely, making servicing faster and more efficient. Despite these benefits, smart appliances are not without their challenges. Cost is often the most significant barrier. Smart versions of refrigerators, washing machines and other household appliances generally cost more than their traditional counterparts. While energy savings may offset some of the expense over time, the higher upfront investment can be difficult for budget-conscious households. Privacy and security concerns are another consideration. Because smart appliances connect to the internet and collect data about household activity, they can potentially be vulnerable to

cyberattacks if not properly secured. Although manufacturers continue to improve security measures, homeowners need to ensure their devices are updated regularly and protected by strong passwords. Technology dependence can also be frustrating. Some smart features rely on an internet connection or companion app to function fully. If the internet goes down or a manufacturer’s software support ends, certain functions may become limited or unavailable. For users who prefer simplicity, a highly connected appliance may feel unnecessarily complicated. Smart appliances offer a glimpse into the future of home living, bringing convenience, efﬁciency and advanced functionality to everyday tasks. However, they also come with higher costs, potential privacy concerns and a reliance on technology. For many homeowners, the decision will come down to balancing the beneﬁts of greater connectivity with the practical realities of cost, security and long-term reliability.

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or many New Zealanders, keeping the lawn looking neat is a regular household chore. From suburban sections to larger lifestyle properties, mowing grass can take up valuable weekend time. Increasingly, however, homeowners are looking to technology for a solution, and robotic lawnmowers are becoming a more familiar sight across the country. Much like robotic vacuum cleaners transformed indoor cleaning, robotic lawnmowers are designed to maintain lawns automatically with minimal human involvement. Using boundary wires or advanced navigation systems, these compact machines move around a lawn independently, trimming grass on a frequent basis and returning to a charging

station when needed. One of the biggest attractions is convenience. Busy families, professionals and retirees alike are drawn to the ability to maintain a tidy lawn without dedicating hours to pushing a mower around the garden. Once installed and programmed, a robotic mower can operate on a schedule, often working quietly in the background while homeowners focus on other activities. New Zealand’s climate also lends itself well to robotic mowing. In many regions, grass grows steadily for much of the year, requiring regular maintenance. Because robotic lawnmowers cut small amounts of grass at a time and operate frequently, they help keep lawns consistently manicured rather than relying on

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well during early spring, while tomatoes, capsicums and cucumbers can be started in sheltered locations or indoors before transplanting later. Garden beds also beneﬁt from some attention after winter. Adding compost or well-rotted organic matter replenishes nutrients and improves soil structure. A layer of mulch can help retain moisture, suppress weeds and regulate soil temperatures as the weather becomes warmer. Spring is also weed season. As temperatures climb, unwanted plants begin growing rapidly and can quickly outcompete desirable species. Tackling weeds early often

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s winter fades and temperatures begin to rise, spring offers the perfect opportunity to prepare their outdoor spaces for months of healthy growth, colour and productivity. With longer days, warming soil and renewed plant activity, now is the time to tackle key garden jobs that will set the stage for a ﬂourishing season. One of the ﬁrst tasks on the spring gardening checklist is a general tidy-up. Fallen leaves, dead plant material and winter debris can harbour pests and diseases, so removing them helps create a healthier growing environment. Pruning damaged branches from trees, shrubs and roses also encourages

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ST LUKES VILLAGE

OPEN DAYS 26 & 27 SEPTEMBER 1PM TO 3PM

THE BEST VALUE INDEPENDENT LIVING RETIREMENT VILLAS IN THE BAY Enjoy comfort, independence, and community at St Luke's Village — a boutique lifestyle community near central Napier. Set among mature trees and manicured gardens, the village features just 13 architecturally designed one- and two-bedroom villas, each with a private garage. One-bedroom villas offer 54 sqm of modern, low-maintenance living in a warm, welcoming setting. Two-bedroom villas are a whopping 70 sqm.

Easy Living, Great Value

Low Weekly Fees

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Our weekly fees are lower than most other villages and you only pay for the actual services received. This includes:

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Affordable pricing Villas are fully refurbished with new kitchen appliances No external maintenance

Rates, Insurance, Ground maintenance There are no surprise charges - just simple, honest pricing that helps you manage your budget with

BOOK A VIEWING Come to our Open Days or make an appointment for a time that suits you. We have both one and two-bedroom villas available for immediate occupancy.

RECEIVE AN INCENTIVE PACKAGE WITH EVERY PURCHASE (Terms and Conditions apply)

CONTACT US: 196 Vigor Brown Street, Napier Village Coordinator Shaun Driscoll shaun.driscoll@gmail.com 022 355 2616 www.nzagedcare.co.nz