After nearly 15 years in enterprise, husband and spouse staff Adam and Michelle Leonard moved to the South Island with their younger household for brand spanking new adventures and careers.
Their final Auckland venture — an attention-grabbing North Shore house — is an excellent testimony to their careers collectively and a primary instance of how structure and design can come collectively to create an final dwelling house.
House owners Jason and Pauline Stockill wished a monochromatic palette, privateness and a seamless circulate between indoor and outside areas, with leisure areas for family and friends and a mancave that’s the envy of the Shore. Greater than that, Jason and Pauline wished a low-maintenance house 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 nevertheless it requires a lot 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 therapy offers it a long-lasting safety. It was additionally surprisingly aggressive.”
Provided by PlaceMakers, Lunawood is chemical-free and the thermal modification course of offers it a wealthy, brown tone. It’s imported from Europe and profiled regionally 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 rather 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 take into account 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 shoppers wished, and the house stands out fantastically 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 music 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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