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Ōhoka Renovation

Project: Ōhoka Renovation
Location: Ōhoka, North Canterbury
Completed: 2025
Type: Residential alteration
Sector: Residential

About the project

A 1994 Trengrove and Blunt home in Ōhoka, given a light-touch update rather than a rescue.

A new six-metre slider joins the kitchen and living areas, the kitchen and dining were merged into one room, and both upstairs bathrooms were reworked. The interiors answer the owners' Scandinavian-meets-Mediterranean brief (nicknamed 'Mod-iterranean') with aged oak, honed quartzite, plaster and aged brass, chosen to look settled rather than new. A Rockcote plaster reclad sets the house up for decades to come. Built by Carmont Builders and featured in Abode magazine.

Designed by AW Architects, Christchurch. Talk to us about a project.

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