After virtually 15 years in enterprise, husband and spouse group Adam and Michelle Leonard moved to the South Island with their younger household for brand new adventures and careers.
Their final Auckland mission — an attention-grabbing North Shore residence — is an impressive testimony to their careers collectively and a chief instance of how structure and design can come collectively to create an final residing area.
Homeowners Jason and Pauline Stockill needed a monochromatic palette, privateness and a seamless move between indoor and out of doors areas, with leisure areas for family and friends and a mancave that’s the envy of the Shore. Greater than that, Jason and Pauline needed a low-maintenance residence to dovetail in with their busy work and social lives.
With that in thoughts, Michelle started investigating a mixture of exterior cladding choices to ship a minimalist, fashionable look along with ease of upkeep and longevity.
“Cedar is an apparent pure possibility however it requires a number of care and common oiling or staining to take care of,” says Michelle. “Whereas thermally modified timber like Lunawood (JSC TMT Taiga) delivers stunning, pure, rustic traits and the oil remedy provides it a long-lasting safety. It was additionally surprisingly aggressive.”
Provided by PlaceMakers, Lunawood is chemical-free and the thermal modification course of provides it a wealthy, brown tone. It’s imported from Europe and profiled domestically by JSC to New Zealand-approved profiles. Its distinctive character is additional enhanced by the distinct oval-shaped ‘butterfly knots’ — one thing that caught Michelle’s designer eye.
“The butterflies are fairly particular and work very well with the darkish tones,” says Michelle. “We selected the Scumble Dusk oil coating as a result of it gave us the depth of color we wanted.”
However Michelle didn’t solely think about Lunawood for the outside; she amplified the inside cathedral ceiling by utilizing the dark-stained Lunawood on a characteristic wall. This continuation brings the pure textures indoors and blends in seamlessly with the TV, fire and oak stairs.
The mixture of the dark-stained vertical Taiga cladding, white bevelback cladding and clean-white, plastered-finish partitions created the monochrome impact the purchasers needed, and the house stands out superbly towards the inexperienced backdrop of the Lengthy Bay Reserve.
From each angle, the outside is a shocking composition of thought of design and a spotlight to element. Name it a ‘final hurrah’ or a swan track however this entertainer’s paradise now stands as testimony to the collaboration between a builder and an architect who simply occur to be forging new chapters collectively in southern lands.
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