Remuera Residence

This unique property overlooking the city and harbour required extensive but sensitive renovations and additions sympathetic to the original design and setting, yet appropriate to the multiple needs of a family of six children and their busy professional parents.
 
Family life centres around the preparation and sharing of meals so spaces have been swapped and reconfigured within the building shell to create 100m2 of open plan kitchen/dining/living to the north ensuring all day sun and views. Living areas have remained on the upper floor, but to overcome the disconnection of house from the garden and pool on such an elevated site the living spaces have been given direct access to a breakfast deck and verandah to the east, lanai to the north, barbeque deck to the west and sheltered private courtyard to the rear.