Keith-Brown works with interior and landscape designers and helps clients with briefs that are all about light, warmth and exposure to outdoor spaces, whether that’s by creating outdoor areas or making sure there is “visual onto green space”. She cites a recent example in Petone where her team brought in a skylight to a dark hallway, and opened the house up to a north-facing courtyard. ”You want to come into the house seeing there’s another room. It’s sunny and pretty and the kids can play in the sandpit and you can look out to the vege garden.”
EDDIE SIMON MEDIA
Architect Tim Nees of New Work Studio has just completed his own new home, at Taylor’s Mistake in Christchurch. The architect said he painted it white because he didn t want another black house .
Christchurch architect Tim Nees has just completed his own house on the hill at Taylor’s Mistake – a small seaside community known for its quaint weatherboard baches and cave homes. But there’s no mistaking the new Nees house – it’s the bright white, modern building that sits lightly on the ground among the trees and bushes. The vertical board cladding references the old baches, but it’s the architect’s reason for the colour that’s especially interesting.