Jarrod Angove of Landmark Homes speaks with Your Home & Garden editor Fiona Hawtin about this seaside home. See the full story, video and home gallery at vantage.co.nz/long-story-short

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. See the full gallery and video at https://www.vantage.co.nz/boom-box

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 vantage.co.nz/birds-eye-view

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/dark-matter

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-in-one

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 perspectives as both architects and homeowners. See more of this home at https://www.vantage.co.nz/walking-on-sunshine

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 home renovation with Tanya and Dominic. See more of this home at https://www.vantage.co.nz/fairytale-ending

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 vision for this Christchurch build. See the full gallery and video at https://www.vantage.co.nz/full-transparency

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 grandchildren could also enjoy. Brendon was adamant they see the water from all parts of the house, even the swimming pool, which is to the back of the house. Through the two sets of sliding doors in the open-plan area, the couple can view what’s happening on the...

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 Capocaccia from MC Architecture Studio. See the full story at vantage.co.nz/high-and-mighty

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 ease. See the full story at https://www.vantage.co.nz/forward-thinking

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.

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

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. Explore more from this home: vantage.co.nz/sea-change

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 this home: vantage.co.nz/home-again

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. See more about this home: vantage.co.nz/change-of-pace

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 home: vantage.co.nz/and-breathe

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.nz/serial-builders

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 couple that, rather than move, they simply rebuild. See more from this home: vantage.co.nz/site-for-sore-eyes