Vantage at Home with Your Home & Garden
Your Home & Garden magazine, in association with Vantage Windows & Doors, is taking a look at beautiful kiwi homes. In this podcast, editor of Your Home & Garden magazine, Fiona Hawtin, visits these homes and talks to the homeowners to learn more about how their home came to life. For videos and galleries of these homes visit https://www.vantage.co.nz/customer-stories
Episodes
22 episodes
Boom Box | Reno by Vantage
A few years after buying a 1980s wooden cabin in the North Shore bush, its doting owners decided it was time to expand — unconventionally. Simon Farrell-Green chats with Hilary and Crispin about how they made this home work for their family.
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Bird's Eye View
Judith speaks with Your Home & Garden editor Fiona Hawtin about her contemporary home on a Christchurch estuary that is designed to provide an outlook that’s always changing. See the full story, video and home gallery at vantag...
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Dark Matter | Reno by Vantage
In this episode, Simon Farrell-Green speaks with architect Anne Kelly about a striking new extension they employed to update a modernist house for a young family in Wellington.See the full story, video and gallery at vantage.co.nz...
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18:00
Reno by Vantage: Hole in One
Elbow Architects make a clever play in adding space to this mid-century family home in Auckland. Architect Julia Mercer chats with Simon Farrell-Green about this recent renovation project.See the video and gallery at vantage.co.nz/hole-...
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19:53
Walking on Sunshine
Architects Kate Rogan and Eva Nash pooled their talents to design Eva’s new family home in Westmere, Auckland. In this episode, Your Home & Garden editor Fiona Hawtin discusses the design process with Kate and Eva who share their unique per...
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29:00
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Fairytale Ending
Tanya and Dominic renovated an "ugly duckling" with the views and space they wanted, creating a cedar-clad contemporary home on Christchurch's Cashmere Hills. In this episode, Your Home & Garden editor Fiona Hawtin discusses the major ho...
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13:09
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Full Transparency
One family gives new meaning to indoor-outdoor flow with a new home, where they can see the front and back yard from the open-plan living space. Your Home & Garden editor, Fiona Hawtin, speaks with Daryl of DJ Hewitt Builders about the v...
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Water, Water Everywhere
Your Home & Garden editor, Fiona Hawtin, speaks with Toni and Warren about their dream home on the Whitianga Waterways. The couple enlisted architect Brendon Gordon to realise their vision for a functional home their children and grandchild...
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15:06
High & Mighty
A Christchurch home on a steep site required an innovative design, which meant plenty of sharp angles. Your Home & Garden editor, Fiona Hawton, chats with homeowner Marie Parsons about the apartment-like home they created with Max Capocacci...
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16:15
Forward Thinking
No one knows the future, but that’s not stopping Julian Waters from planning for it. He wants to enjoy his striking, modern Whitianga home for as long as possible, delighting in the indoor-outdoor living going from the pool and his bedroom with...
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13:16
Where the Pheasants Fly | Vantage and YH&G
Simon and Sarah are city people used to having neighbours in close proximity. Simon used to call Ponsonby home and Sarah hails from Berlin. Now, their closest neighbours are pheasants and bulls.
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11:53
Mountains of Appeal
Fiona, editor at Your Home & Garden, speaks with Craig and Natalie about the holiday home they built to enjoy during school holidays with their three children. Explore more from this home: vantage.co.nz/mountains-of-appeal
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10:16
Sea Change
Fiona, editor at Your Home & Garden, speaks with architects, Brian White and Harry Croucher of Edwards White Architects about this new home designed for a family who were making a lifestyle change by moving to Raglan, New Zealand.Ex...
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10:32
Home again
Fiona, editor at Your Home & Garden, speaks with architect and homeowner, Jonathon Kennedy of Sheppard & Rout Architects about his new home built on the site of his childhood house in Christchurch, New Zealand. Explore more from...
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14:24
Change of pace
This sun-drenched home was designed to perfectly suit a couple with plans of retiring. Your Home & Garden editor, Fiona, speaks with architect Richard Furze about this home in Omokoroa designed for his clients based in Auckland.
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13:12
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And breathe
Fiona Hawtin, editor at Your Home & Garden, speaks with Rochelle and Stuart Wilson about their new opulent family home which was also designed to be luxury accommodation for guests to completely relax. Explore more from this ho...
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8:24
Serial builders
Your Home & Garden NZ editor, Fiona Hawtin, speaks with a husband-and-wife team, who cannot seem to stop building houses. They speak about a home in Kumeu they have just built which is just right.See more from this home: vantage.co....
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12:30
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Site for sore eyes
Listen in as Fiona Hawtin, editor of Your Home & Garden, speaks with homeowners, Cathie and Jono Staines’ about their home on the clifftop above Murray’s Bay, with its sweeping sea views across to Rangitoto and beyond, is so prized by the c...
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8:27
To the lighthouse
Fiona Hawtin, editor of Your Home & Garden magazine speaks to Tim and Polly Dagg about their new home in Christchurch built to be completely private from the front, open at the back and with a surprising night-time element.See more ...
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