Taumarunui
Chris designed these pavillions to define the courtyard and entrance. The weatherboard of the house matches the elegant pillars to produce excellent proportions.
The art of good design is taking an existing house or garden and making the transition to something new.
Lake Okareka
The landscape architecture of this Lake Okareka property includes split level terraced gardens in brick to match the brick home alongwith extended and elevated brick terrace and lower brick ha-ha retaining wall to retain the front lawn area with views across to the lake. The centrally placed multidirectional brick staircase goes down through the front of the lawn and ha-ha wall to the lower garden level.
The planting includes box-bordered and mass planted David Austin Roses. A trio of pleached Crabapples outside the bedroom window creates a vista of bird life and seasonal colour.
Hawkes Bay
Well established Hawkes Bay family and home. Our clients wanted to build a solid limestone rock staircase and wall leading from the upper garden down to the stream. Constructed on an engineered, concrete, under-pinned foundation for flood resistance and high water control. Built from limestone found on the property - now in its' 25th year. Extensive use of red brick for driveway borders, defining the aged oaks and matching the red brick of the homestead. Geometric half circular brick border at the front entrance a mirror image of the chimney detail.
Taupo
This fabulous house, garden and its 50 acres of surrounding woodlands is now in its' 15th year. Designed and planted from bare paddocks Chris worked very closely with the client to renovate the home and establish an arboretum to include over 20,000 trees from single specimens and feature groups to massed woodlands of oak, beech, kowhai, maple and douglas fir. Sugar maple, giant rhodos redwoods and birch stand alongside himalayan cedar, casmere cypress, omoriko spruce and many families of fir. The tennis court pergola supports weeping mulberry, climbing hydrangea and star jasmine and stands amongst weeping maytens, weeping birch , cherry and hornbeam. John deere residence combo dovecote designed to match homestead with bevel-back sawn pine walls and roof.
Hawkes Bay
Commissioned as a family memorial wall, now in its' 27th year. 80 tonnes of concrete in the foundation and solid-filled block walls. Varying in height from 2.0 to 3.2 metres this wall covers 30 lineal metres and extends from the c19th homestead to the tennis court over 2.5 metres of contour change. Semi gothic column detailing matching the steep pitch and architectural detailing of the house. Stands confidently in the garden with its' aged tree companions.
Taupo
Our clients wanted to make the most of the opportunity to develop the landscape around a thermal pool particular to the Taupo area and its underground thermal resource. The black masonry pool was finished below the waterline level with black mosaic tiles throughout. All the water comes via a heat exchange unit via a natural underground bore. In slate surround, a multi-level waterfall using the same thermal water source creates a fabulous outdoor thermal pool and feature.Immediately adjacent to the pool is a sunken tennis court constructed using plastered block retaining walls, glass balustrading and plexi-pave rubberised paint finish over a hot mix base. The whole of the outdoor living area is paved in black slate. The matching pedestrian access gates are custom designed 75 diameter stainless pipe to match the existing balustrades on the house.
Pukawa Bay, Taupo
Outdoor living courts, veranda, kitchen gardens, croquet lawn, tennis court and other various outdoor living areas have been distinctly defined by the integration of landscape architecture giving the house a better appreciation of the site and its characteristics. Outdoor rooms such as the play-room and boat shed have been added in continuity of style. Local stone was used in the construction of the walls and steps leading to the potager and kitchen gardens.
Cambridge
Our clients wanted to enhance their family home and living by constructing a swimming Pool/Summer House with an outdoor fire and exterior loggia. The centrepiece of this 2 acre property is a stunning 1930's solid masonry stucco finished family home. Classic timber joinery with original leadlights. The feature motif of the leadlights was integrated into the wrought iron work of the pool enclosure as well as the outdoor fireplace 'fire dogs'. The pool enclosure which comprises wrought iron work to the front combined with matching stuccoed masonry walls to the rear ensures the continuity of house and landscape. Planting included standard citrus, evergreen magnolia, star jasmine and dwarf agapanthus.
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