Trends New Zealand Trends Volume 32 No 1 New Zealand | Page 60

Top and above: The long view – a
vista extends from the front living
room right through the kitchen to
the garden. The kitchen has two
zones, with glassware and a drinks
fridge set by the servery to the rear.
Right: Existing front rooms remain
much as they were apart from wider
inter-room connections and openings
to the outdoors. Pocket sliders can
be drawn across the expanded
openings to provide room-to-room
separation if required.

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“Moving away from the trend of open-plan
living, we reverted to separate kitchen, living
and dining areas. These are linked by a series
of frames, created by the newly expanded door
openings,” says Willett.
The interior now has two axes oriented to the
reworked back garden. One is a staggered path,
zigzagging from living to dining room and on
to a new central family room, or sun room. This
in turn opens to another informal family space,
with the garden and pool beyond. The central
room benefits from the light from an adjacent
new stairwell and has the airy feel of a sunny